Dear Stina. Thanks for teaching us HypnoBirthing. The birth is Isla was not exactly what I was planning but it was a great birth.
My waters broke on the Sunday night and then nothing much happened on Monday. I did everything I could think of on Monday – acupuncture, walking, took callophylin etc etc.
Anyway – Monday night things started and then I got this strange pain in my left ribs at the back, which seemed to send my system into disorder and I got quite nauseous.
As it so happened I had already had booked a Dr appointment on the Monday as I was 41.3 weeks – met a great Doctor – and we postponed the “induction” until he following morning 7am.
So as I was partly started we continued with the Oxytocin drip on Tuesday morning (i.e. I was “augmented” I think is the official term) and I was quite concerned about the pain and nausea. They added some Maxolon to the drip which instantly stopped the nausea and away I went – so all up with the drip I was going about 9hrs – again longer than expected – I think ‘cos she had her hand up by her head this meant she got caught up on the “corner” (as I now know about this – no-one told me about the “corner”) and she stalled there for a bit – but she was born naturally – I had a bit of a tear (‘cos of the hand) and the placenta got caught up in the cervix so I had to go in to theatre to get that removed – it took them 2 seconds – it was right there at the entrance but I couldn’t get it out!! Sorry for the gruesome details but I thought you would be interested.
The amazing thing was that throughout all this process Isla stayed incredibly calm – they monitored her heart rate throughout as they have to with the drip (they also only had the Oxytocin on a low dose) but I think the breathing and relaxation techniques help keep her calm and relaxed. Tim was amazing and really helped me throughout the birth – reminding me of the breathing – so interesting to note that between surges whenever Tim said to breath in for 4 and out for 8 I instantly got another surge – I knew when I relaxed that the surges would come on again – so that was so interesting to notice.
She is great – we are still getting to know each other – she has pretty much been a very relaxed baby although there are times when she has been upset – all for good reasons i.e. milk coming in, tummy upsets but she and I are starting to get it all together.
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