Leanne's Birth of Laura

Leanne's Birth of Laura

On Tuesday the 7th of february at 5pm i was on my way to armadale hospital to be induced at 11 days overdue. once we arrived at the hospital my partnet (jamie) and myself were taken to the assessment room. at 5:30pm i had my first lot of gel inserted, and waited and waited and waited... 6 hours later nothing had happened. so off i went to sleep for the night, and jamie was sent home to also get some good night sleep. 6am on wednesday the 8th of february i was woken up by the midwife for my secnond lot of gel to be inserted.. while on the phone to jamie and mum to let them know to get ready to come to the hospital...jamie arrived about 10 minutes after.

By 6:30am i was having very mild contractions and was placed on the oh so very uncomfrtable gct machine to monitor lauras heart rate, at 8am mum arrived at the hospital. i was then checked to see how dilated i was to see if they could hurry things along and break my water.. 2cm nope i wasnt ready to have my waters broken so off the gct machine to get up and moving around... silly idea we went down to the cafe downstairs to get mum a coffee and me a sandwhich else i was never going to get time to eat... next thing i knew i was having contractions every few minutes. (i never ended up eating my sandwhich) and so we went back up stairs, i went back to the assessment room and new by this time i needed some gas and air to help calm me down...

i got to the assessment room and the midwife came to check me.. 4cm dilated so they broke my waters... the midwife kept me on gas and air while having waters broken so i would relax. which we all had a good laugh with.. while having my waters broken.. i was shouting out to my mum and my boyfriend jamie... POP, POP, POP omg im pissing myself!! omg can you feel that mum, you must be able to feel that! by this time i was away with the fairys on the gas and air while the midwifes having the time of her life laughing at me.. i sat up and laughed and said " what are you laughing at me for your ment to be a professinal" she was in stitches laughing. i just couldnt understand what was so funny! after she had finshed with breaking my waters and all having a good laugh at me on gas and air i got up and washed off in what felt like the most amazing shower of my life! i didnt want to get out but my contractions were comming non stop now so i knew i had to get out the shower, it was now or never... so mum helped me get dressed and i walked on down to the birth suite...

when i got there i set my eyes on a bean bag which was placed in the far corner and though yep thats what im having im having that, so mum got the bean bag and i rested on that while leaning on the edge of the bed... while mum was to busy taking photos of how amazingly nice the birth room was i was holding jamies hand while trying so hard to breath threw my contractions on just gas and air... the midwife walked in and i said "IM PUSHING IM PUSHING" she ran over and told me dont push your not dilated yet! i was sure as hell this baby was comming now, weather she was ready for it or not. this was my chance to get on the bed otherwise id be having this baby laying on the beanbag.... once i was on the bed the midwife checked to see how dilated i was. sure enough as i thought i was 10cm i was ready to push... in all a matter of 2o minutes i had gone from 4cm to 10cm... so i started pushing, and pushing.... and pushing...... and more pushing i was just about ready for more drugs i was so sure that i was going to need the epidural and kept telling the midwife its epidrual time. but nope she wouldnt she just kept telling me i was coping fine with just gas and air. she eventully gave me a shot of pethadene (which really didnt do that much at all) i was just about freeking out that she wasnt going to give me the epidural.

after about an hour of pushing and still no baby, the midwife sugested i used the birth stool, i agreed so off she went to get it, the birth stool was amazing took all the pressure of my, however i freeked out when she placed a mirror underneath me and screamed out "move that away i dont want to see that" but she didnt coz she had to see when i was pushing.... after about 15 minutes on the birth stool i was over it i was soo soo tired and just wanted to relax (i must have been dreaming relax while this far into labour) so i was back on the bed to push... after 3 hours of pushing the doctor finally thought hummm maybe its best we help this baby out so of he went to get his bits and peices...

the doctor said he was going to make a small cut, (a small cut turned into a little bit more than that... he had cut threw my vein!!!! there was blood everywhere and mum could tell something had gone wrong from the look of worry on the doctors face. he was asking for this and that and the midwife was running about like a headless chook getting needes to stop the bleeding, the vaccum was placed on the babys head (which was so very uncomfy) and i pushed another two times and her head was out, anther push and her body was out, she was placed up onto my chest straight away, and the doctor was back to dealing with all the blood i was loosing, he had to stitch my vein to stop it from bleeding and gave me about another 30 stitches, i was glad it was all over after 13 hours and 40 minutes of labour it was all finally over and i had given birth natraully to my beautiful baby daughter laura elizabeth burton weighing 7 pounds 4oz and 48cm short.