She thought labour would ease in gently, but it had other plans! Crawling across gravel, screaming through the pain, and doubting her strength- this is a real, unfiltered story of bringing new life into this world!
⏰ 40 weeks + 3 days, Sunday June 12th – my mucous plug went in the morning followed by mild contractions that were very sporadic for the day and night, these continued to build through the night but irregular.
📔 40 wks + 4 – Monday 13th – I would have to lie down when I could and breathe through the contractions. I asked for help as I had Z by myself so I could focus on my hypnobirthing breathing.
☁️ Much to my disappointment the contractions just sort of stopped in the afternoon, I went for a walk, did some errands, and prepared for what I thought might be a week long labour, this time I was pretty relaxed and very busy with Z and distractions of life!
🛌 I put Z to bed and at 7pm I could see he’d fallen asleep on the monitor, I had made my dinner and after one bite I felt immense sharp pain and pressure and my waters broke 💦 for me – it was like in the movies a huge gush all over the floor that just kept coming, I ended up throwing my plate and food all over the floor! I was expecting a drizzle not a full on waterfall 😂.
🙀 After a loud yelp and lucky timing, my my hubby arrived home and my mother in law drove over to baby sit Z, the contractions were coming on fast! In fact, i felt I couldn’t cope, they were getting longer and I couldn’t use my breathing. Tbh I felt like a failure & by 8pm I had the tens machine on full blast, I’d begged for a bath 🛀 to be run and got in and out as it did nothing – i kept thinking I’d failed early labour already as I couldn’t breathe through it and I was desperate for an epidural. Messaging @lucymeck1 at around 8.20pm she urged me to just get to the hospital (best advice) and I called them twice, but could barely talk the second time.
We had put off going sooner as it’s a 35 min drive away and I didn’t want to be turned away if I wasn’t dilated enough. By this point I couldn’t walk, at 9pm i was screaming (amazed my son slept) I can’t do this , help me, all sorts of things, I had to crawl – very undignified 😂