Birth story 🤗

I Came in Wednesday 3rd, for induction, at 11am, had my first pessary at 3pm that day, thought nothing of it as my cervix was still closed, and was long, an hour later I was contracting, which where painful but manageable.

they did another check on me at 10pm that night, my cervix was soft, but not dilated, but because I was having contractions they couldn't put the second one in, so they gave me dyhrydacodine and sent me to sleep.

I woke up at 4am, with no pains at all, so they gave me my second pessary, some more pain relief and told me to try sleep

by 5am the contractions where bad, and where so strong that nothing was taking them away, so I got examination at 10am and I was 2-3cm dilated, so they said they where breaking my waters, and moving me to labour ward!

at 1pm my waters where broke, which didn't hurt, felt very strange, but not painful, and I had loads of water 🙈 I was then put on the drip on slow

by 5pm I was 5cm dilated, and started on gas and air, and by 9pm I asked for an epidural, at 9:45pm they put it in, and left the drip on, but I was screaming telling them it wasn't working at all, as there was one spot in the side of my back that just hurt like hell with every contraction but they wouldn't listen..

at 10pm the fire alarm started to go off, and we all had to exit with me on the bed, and I began pushing whilst in the hallway, with no pain relief as the epidural had failed, they managed to get me into a room and his head was sitting right at the exit, but every time I pushed it wasn't moving, so they gave me an injection, and cut me, which I didn't feel at all, didn't even know about till afterwards

then at 10:56pm he was born, once his head was out all the pain went and I pushed his little body out!

he weighs 6lb 3 ounces, and is a bundle of joy 😍 doesn't cry much, latched onto my nipples straight away, is a gem 😍

I had to have two stitches, but hopefully, we get to go home this afternoon!

I'll pop a photo in comments 🙈🙈