Alyssa Grace easy arrival birth story 14/07/08

Thank You Maria for the cute bunny hat & slippers!

Alyssa grace easy arrival 14/07/08
(or at least i think it was, lol)

Hubby and I had spent the weekend yet again trying to bring the labour on... only to get tons of pre-labor pains that would last all day.. just being a pain! In the end it left me tired and cranky! Monday arrived and i asked hubby to chuck a sickie, i wanted him to stay home with me. (so he did, just so happened he wasnt feeling great and had a headache that wouldnt leave even with pain killers) I decided that i would avoid anything that would bring on those pains, so sex, curries, walking were off the list! I had a huge urge to clean the windows and frames in our bedroom behind our blinds that i had noticed bots of mould starting to grow and used alot of undiluted tea tree oil. I started getting pains, i was somewhat excited and somewhat skeptical. I hadnt done anything on purpose, maybe it was going to be this time? I kept cleaning those windows! (theres alot of them in our room)
The pains were starting to last longer and get more painful!
I kept going to the toilet, keen on seeing a show! But with no luck!
I finished on the windows and started to play a bit of uno on the xbox360 to take my mind of it, like i did the other times...until it got really painful!! I finally had a show and was thrilled!!! woohoo!!!!! i then puked (how lovely) and hubby said he would clean it up.. (well i wasnt going to!)

The bub was on its way.. when a contraction hit, i closed my eyes, leant over the baby change table in our room or on the walls if i was in the hallway, swinging my hips around helped deal with the pain. I tried remembering that the pain was ok, not to panic and that it would soon be all over and finally we would know the sex of the baby and be in awe of that precious little bundle we had been waiting to meet! I also kept thinking to myself "darn whoever, whatever said, that you will know youre in full blown labour when your asking yourself why am i doing this again?" (this is bub & pregnancy number 2) I was certainly doing that, why did i choose to get pregnant again?! Why did i choose to re-live this pain?

I asked hubby to time the contractions and not to tell me what they were. When i asked 20-30mins later he said they were coming every 3-5mins and lasting 2minutes! ouch! He rang the labour-phone for the hospital... to which the midwife asked to speak with me, she started asking me for my info and another contraction hit and i passed the phone back to hubby without saying anything really but "oh God!" i felt pretty pissed off that for some reason my hubby wasnt good enough for them to get stupid stuff like my birth date and all that.. why they were asking again, i have no idea.. i was in the computer, been to my appts.. I didnt want to talk to them thats for sure, not when there was someone not in pain who could give them the info they were asking.

Hubby called up his bosses wife to please come get our girl (5yo) to look after (awesome people) she turned up half hour later with her grandkids in tow, much to the pleasure of our daughter! not only was her baby sis/bro on the way but now she would get to play with some kids while she waited!

Hubby then called up a taxi and it arrived pretty quick. I did alright on the 10min trip to the hospital, the bumps sucked (if only hospitals had a entrance to the hospital purely for women in labour that didnt have speed humps/bumps!!!!!) I didnt puke or have my waters break, so that was a relief!!! ROFL!

Arrived at the midwife desk at the ward and was directed into a small consult room. Where they wanted to ask more questions! Excuse me id like to fracking give birth and im still getting questioned?! argh!!!!!! I then found the results of my strep b test was negative (phew! Yay me!) I was then told again about not to be stupid, if i was bleeding bad they would give me the synto injection that i didnt want in my birth preferences. I did bring along my prenatal sheet and my birth preferences but for some reason hubby never handed them over.. My Bp was checked & was fine. The baby heartbeat was fine. It dragged out pretty long due to the contractions.. i was feeling them in my back mostly now and it really was painful. The midwife kept asking me if i wanted saline injections in my back to help get thru the pain, something about feeling like 4 mozzie bites.. i then was given a VE to which she replied i was already 8cms! (and that the saline injections she had offered to me was out of the question) i was given a white sheet to tie around my waist and i waddled down the hallway to the labour room with midwife & hubby in tow.
I kept getting asked if i felt any pressure... i think i did.. i worried that maybe i was pushing to early and part of me worried that i might be missing the cues to push and the bub would go into distress.. somehow i did get back into the zone, relaxed on the floor over the birthing bean bag on the floor and just pushed... it was then that i felt the baby move further down.. it was weird. With each little push i could feel the end getting closer! I was really so very happy. The midwife told my hubby to push a button behind him when she said so (that was just behind him & me) I pushed with each contraction, i dont remember what the pain was like at that time.. I gave 3 almighty pushes, the button was pressed, 2 other midwives (1 in training) came into the room.. someone said 'everything is bulging!' (odd how u remember the weird things) Then my waters broke.

The crowing this time didnt have that burning ring of fire of my first. No i think it happened a bit quicker? There was a ton of pain and i felt pain like a snip! I panicked and thought "oh crap they gave me a epistomy!(sp?)" I was breathing really fast, i heard the midwife say breathe slow and hubby repeated it and thats when it sank in and i calmed down. One last push and it felt like the body of the baby was being pulled out of me.. odd that it felt like that. i actually said "stop pulling the baby" lol.. (it wasnt being pulled out) 2nd stage lasted 8mins! (it felt much longer than that)
I moved from hugging the bean bag to sitting on my knees and picked up our little girl. She was gorgeous, all covered in vernix and screaming. lol. She did a bit of a poo before i picked her up and then 5mins later when i was holding her she peed on me!

I was then told by the midwife that i had a hour to deliver the placenta and bubs to have delayed cord clamping and if the placenta wasnt delivered in that hour id have to have the injection. I was shaking and getting cold, which i knew was a bad sign. However i delivered the placenta naturally. The placenta was complete but the membrane wasnt complete, i think tho it came out in the shower afterwards (sorry TMI) 3rd stage lasted 15mins!

I was asked if they could use my placenta in one of the classes. Which i agreed too, i was amused that my placenta was going to gross alot of mum n dads to be out! ROFL!
I was then told i had a graze and it didnt require stitches, thats the snip pain i felt!!!
I completely forgot about the advice id heard to kiss or laugh during labour to help with the pain. I got thru it pretty alright anyways without any meds..
The midwives were all so happy afterwards. Im really relieved that i only had 1 midwife thru the whole thing. (only later when i did the forms did i see that the midwife made a mistake on the medicare form saying she was born in august! whoops!)

we were left alone for quite some time, hubby had some skin to skin time with her... I noticed that our little girl was tongue tied (like her dad was)

and thats about it!
My dinner/lunch was plain cheese sandwich (already eaten), some sort of tomato soup, orange jelly and tea :( (i didnt have the soup)