My Labour Story!!xx

Hey Everyone,
So as you may know (if you follow me on my social media) about a month ago I gave birth to my beautiful baby girl and today I am going to tell you the story of my labour.


So it all began on Wednesday 4th October at 2am when I was getting tiny little pains in my stomach- personally they felt like period pains so I thought they was braxton hicks so I didn't take much notice of them but really I was in very early labour. So before anyone asks I did have some other symptoms a week before such as diarrhoea and felt constantly drained and a lot of braxton hicks which is totally normal in pregnancy especially when you 37-38 weeks pregnant. Anyway back to the story. As I did say my pains started at 2am Wednesday morning and I also had a little back pain and couldn't sleep at all and was constantly peeing every 5 minutes. About 2.30am I went to the toilet and noticed blood on my tissue which kinda scared me and made me freak out but my mum said it could of been my mucus plug leaving my cervix's and that if it got any worse I should ring the hospital as soon as possible ( but don't worry guys I did mention this to the midwife on the phone and she said the same thing....but just because this happened to me doesn't mean it will happen to you so its always important to ring your midwife as soon as possible if you spot any blood at all).

By 4pm the pains got a  little stronger but mainly in my back (which is where most of my pain was through the whole of the labour). By then I kinda guessed I was in early stages of labour and rang my birth center to talk to a midwife for advice. She said "We will get a midwife out to in the morning to give you an examination to see how far you are to see if you can come to the birth center". After speaking to a midwife I did end up messaging my partner who was on his way home from work to let him know I was in early labour and that he needed to come to my mums as soon as possible (that's where I was staying as my partner was working nights and I didn't want to be on my own). So about 6.30am my partner arrived at my mums and was very supportive even thou he was very tired after working a hards night shift. While I was waiting for the midwife to arrive I decided to go on my birth ball as I got told by my community midwife it helps with the pain and positions the baby the right way and to be totally honest it comforted the pain in my back a little. After being on the birth ball for abour half hour I then decided I wanted some rest and went to sleep on my mums sofa.

At 10.30am I woke up with a lot of pain especially in my back. The contractions were starting to get a lot stronger but I managed to just breathe through them. My mum made me some toast but I couldn't eat it as I felt sick. At 11am I had a knock at my mums door and it was finally the midwife to give me my examination. Firstly she checked my temperature which was a little high but was nothing to worry about so she gave me some paracetamol to bring it down. She then gave me a sweep- which hurt so much.....this is just to see how many centimeters you have dilated. I had only dilated 2cm within the 9 hours of pain I was having and my pains wasn't close enough to be taken to hospital meaning I had to stay at home a bit longer. The midwife did advice me to get some rest as I didn't have much sleep and also told me to try and eat something and to drink plenty of water and once the pains started getting closer (lasting 1 minute every 10 minutes in a hour) then to ring the birth center straight away. The examination took about 20-25 minutes as she was also keeping an eye on baby's heartbeat. Once the midwife left I did as she said and went back onto the sofa and went to sleep.

I then woke up at about 3-3.30pm (I can't remember fully). By then I was in a lot of pain to the point where I had tears in my eyes but I breathed through it. Even thou my pains were very strong now they still wasn't close enough to go to hospital but my partner hated seeing me in pain and got my mum to ring the birth center to let them know I couldn't cope with the pain and to ask if I could come into the birth center but unfortunately she couldn't get no answer.....so it was straight to the car and straight to the birth center. It took us about 20 minutes to get to the hospital which was located in Neath Port Talbot.....by the time we got there it got to the point where I couldn't even walk with the pain meaning my mum had to get me a wheelchair so my partner could get me into the birth center.

Neath Port Talbot Hospital

Once we arrived in the birth center the midwifes there were very lovely and took us to a empty room. The room was amazing it had an double bed where me and my partner could sleep...a television...kettle...just like a little hotel room but only it was in a hospital haha.

At 4.30pm a midwife came in to give me another examination. Yet again my temperature was high which the midwife wasn't very happy about and gave me more paracetamol to try and bring it down. Then she listened to baby's heartbeat which sounded lovely and healthy and the midwife was very pleased. Then came the painful "sweep"......I was finally 4cm dilated. She asked me if I wanted to go in the birth pool as I did request to another midwife just before and of course I said yes. While waiting for the pool to be filled I heard another lady (in the room next to me) giving birth........well this put me off.....she was screaming like anything......my partners face was hysterical, he looked so scared love him.....he ended up turning around to me and said "you sure you don't want thee epidural". Now if you are wondering why he said this then its because I told the midwifes I did't want it.

As I was still waiting for the pool to be cleaned and filled up for me the midwife came in and asked if I wanted any pain relief and I was so happy to hear her say that. I ended up going on gas and air and let me tell you something here guys.....that stuff is the best pain relief EVER!!
If you ever have been drunk then you will understand the feeling I'm going to explain but it feels like your absolutely hammered to the point where your seeing double...your head feels heavy and your body goes numb but geeez its good for the pain.

I had constant examinations just so they could make sure everything was going smoothly until the pool was filled.

I did forget to mention I was still bleeding while I was peeing (from the last time I told you), but midwife said that was totally normal for when your in labour.

8.30pm a few hours had past and I had about 3-4 examinations and finally the pool was ready for me. I left my suitcase in the room and me, my partner and my mum went into the pool room. It was so lovely in there....they had essential oils burning to relax me, they dimmed the lights and put different coloured lights on....it was beautiful and so relaxing in there. The pool itself was lovely and warm- I literally could of stay there forever as it really helped with the pain along with the gas and air which I was still loving haha. I was in the pool for about an hour which lead me to 9.30pm which by then I was due another examination. My temperature was really high this time so the midwife went to speak to the other midwifes to see what she could do as I couldn't have any more paracetamol as they would overdose me. The midwife told me to come out of the birthing pool as that wasn't helping my temperature go down and she gave me some water to drink. At 10pm the midwife came back in and said that due to my temperature being so high they would have to transfer me to either Singleton Hospital or Bridgend Hospital. She asked me which one i preferred and i pick Singleton so she went off to ring them to see if they had any room but unfortunately they were busy and if i did go there i wouldn't be attended to straight away, so it ended up being Bridgend Hospital for me. Luckily Bridgend wasn't busy and said they would be awaiting my arrival so the midwife rang an ambulance to transfer me from Neath to Bridgend which was about a hour away. While I was waiting for the ambulance I had a IV needle thingy put in and omg I don't like needles as it is but that thing was so uncomfortable in my hand.

The ambulance finally arrived at 10.30pm and I was off on my way to Bridgend Hospital. My mum came in the ambulance with me alongside the midwife that was attending to me and my partner followed behind the ambulance in the car. In the ambulance I was literally out of it with gas and air- as I did say that stuff was amazing and I loved it haha. The pains started getting a lot stronger now and was a minute apart from each other so the gas and air wasn't really working on me now so I did ask in the ambulance if I could have an epidural as soon as I got to the hospital and the midwife said I could. Now I understand at the start of this blog post I did say I didn't want one but at this point the pain was horrendous and I just wanted it to stop.

We arrived at Bridgend Hospital (formally known as the Princess of Wales Hospital) at around 11.30pm and I was taken to a room where I yet had another examination (yes girls you have a lot of examinations). I was now 5-6cm dilated.

Princess Of Wales Hospital

Once I settled into the room the midwife went off to find the doctor to see if he could give me the epidural I had asked for. By this time I was so high of gas and air I can barely remember what happened, so i'm going to have to go with what my mum and partner told me.

At 12pm the doctor came and explained that he couldn't give me an epidural as he didn't know if the other midwifes give me anything that could effect it. 

(as I did say I'm now going by what I got told happened as I barely remember anything).

At this point these pains were coming like every second (it felt like anyway). I then had another IV put in my other hand-which to be totally honest I don't even know why they put them in because they didn't even use them and also half way through my mum ended catching one and ripping out my hand....and blood ended up everywhere....so yeah thanks mum haha. 

12:45pm my waters broke and apparently I started crying because I thought I peed myself. From what i can remember it did feel like I peed myself but it was really warm and there was a lot more water then I would actually pee haha. Now by I'd say approximately 1.15am Thursday 5th October (so by now I've basically been in labour for 12 hours) everything got so intense because they made me to start pushing. To be totally honest most of the time my body was doing the pushing itself. Now I ent going to lie to you.......the pain was horrendous, I was pushing for what felt like forever and by the time the baby's head came out I was screaming.......the stretching pain you feel stings like a b**ch, which I actually found out after her coming out that the terrible stretching pain was actually me tearing ( I suffered with a 2 degree tear and had to have stitches and omg it hurt).  Anyway she was born at 1.30am on Thursday 5th October weighing 6lbs 9oz. She was beautiful.

Gabriella minutes after birth

Gabriella 1 Hour Old

 We had a name for her from the day we knew  she was a girl. I'd like you to meet Gabriella Maria Vlad.

Holding her for the first time was the most amazing thing I have ever done in my whole life and I will treasure the memory forever.

I did try and breastfeed Gabriella but she wouldn't latch so shes been bottle feed since day one.






I also had to stay in hospital for 5 days as Gabriella had an infection and low blood sugar and had to have a IV drip in her hand.

Writing this post now my beautiful baby girl is a month and 1 week old (5 weeks old). I cant believe how fast time has gone. I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post and sorry if it was a little rambley. I will hopefully have some more baby/mammy blog posts on my blog soon.

Gabriella Now

Gabriella 1 Month and 1 Week Old

                     
                   



















 Until then!
 Kylie xox is out!