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I had a show, but felt fine. By 7pm I
started having contractions, they were
coming thick and fast. Rob was doing
his bit of setting up the TENS machine and timing the contractions. I
think they were all about 3mins apart
from the off. We were pretty calm, so
much so Rob was doing his Sudoku
in between!?!? I tried having a bath, but couldn‟t relax
as Rob informed me that it had started snowing outside.
We called the midwife and she said if we wanted to
come in we could. When we got to the midwife led unit
at 4am I was already 4cm dilated – great I could get into
the birthing pool. I found the water relaxing, with a little help from gas and air I
was dilating 1cm every hour.
Everything was going fine until the gas
and air ran out and while I was waiting for
another cylinder I had my worst contraction and my waters broke. I remember
feeling quite scared and insisted on pethidine. I had to
get out of the birthing pool to have the injection so I
wouldn‟t get to have a water birth, I didn‟t really care at that point. When I was
next examined I was 10cm dilated so
could push at any time. I think this was
my worst fear of childbirth (the pushing
part), but as it turned out, as soon as I
made the first push the pain just dissipated and found I could relax and not
feel so scared. (Pethidine may have
had something to do with that though)
A couple more pushes and our little boy was born
9.50am, 12th March 2006 weighing 6lb 13oz.
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