
Sullivan’s Labour & Delivery story
Hello everyone, I’m finally back to the blogging biz, and I have a new member of the blogging family here to introduce. His name, Sullivan Richard Jones, weighing a very healthy 7lb 14oz, a whole 10 oz more than his big brother Logan was. He was 6 days overdue and decided to arrive in 2018 instead of the expected 30th of December 2017.
I started having niggly, mild uterine cramps on the 4th of January which started around 7 am, and I noticed I was having these pains progressively more as the morning went on, so I decided to start timing these contractions.
These were my contractions at around 10 am that same day, so I knew this was the real deal after I’d had a bath and they actually got a bit stronger so I told my mum and rob about the impending labour. My mum advised I come over to her house so that I can go straight to the hospital from her house as they live closer to the hospital and they could just drive me straight there.
So there I am bouncing on my ball all day and night with no signs of baby yet, until around 7 or 8 pm where my contractions had been getting a lot stronger and less manageable and painful, so I rang Blairbell, the labour ward at the Wrexham Maelor, and they said I could go in to be assessed if I wanted and risk being sent home or stay at home longer and risk giving birth on the bathroom floor! (Jokes – that’s not what she actually said!)
I decided it was time to go into hospital at around 8.30 that evening, they noticed my blood pressure was a bit raised so she strapped me to the monitor and looked over my notes, after about 20 minutes on the monitor she did a cervical exam and said I was 2cm dilated, so I then went for a walk around the hospital hoping to get things moving, I noticed that the contractions were coming a lot closer and stronger.
After about an hour and a half of walking in between contractions, we went back up to blairbell which is when they decided to admit me to the MLU (midwife lef unit), the room I was taken to was amazing, there was a lovely pool, a nice low bed, with fairy lights and a cd player which I hooked my phone up to so I could listen to my own music, by this point the contractions had hindered a little bit, but the midwife I had who was lovely by the way, said that can happen sometimes, so I contiuned bouncing up and down on the birthing ball for about an hour. The midwife then checked me and said I was at 3 cm and this exam caused me to have a bloody show.
(Skip past the boring details)…
I should also mention that I didn’t have any pain relief besides a couple paracetamol, and co-codamol as well as using breathing techniques.
It is now the next day (5th January) at about 3 am and I am totally exhausted by this point but the contractions were coming on thick and fast and my mum could tell that I wasn’t far off. I had to get onto the bed for the midwife to check the baby’s heartbeat, and she had to call in a more senior midwife because Sully was being a right wriggler and quite stubborn, but they eventually found the heartbeat and all was fine. By this point, i was on the gas and air and laying down made my contractions very intense so much so that i felt the need to push but the midwife said not to as she doesn’t think im quite ready, so she did another cervical exam and said i was 7cm and said i was ready to get into the pool if i wanted.
I was so tired but so relieved to be finally at the end and I was so ready to meet my little baby, was about 4.30 am i think (honestly im making these times up because i was so out of it on gas and air and pure exhaustion i had no idea what was going on, i could just feel pain) apparently it was a very quick 2nd stage probably 1 push and baby’s head was out and another push then sully was born, and he arrived into the world at 9 minutes past 5 in the morning on the 5th January.
Pictures to follow…
Sully latched first time and perfectly after i had delivered the placenta, but i was just that exhausted i could barely keep my eyes open, so i ended up giving him some formula just so that i could get some sleep and time to recover. After a much needed sleep, we came home that same day, about dinner time, and i was so glad to be home and never once had a show of baby blues which i had with Logan.
I cannot believe that i am now a mum of 2 beautiful boys.
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Welldone Love, congrats to you and your family:) I hope alls going well and Logan likes his new Brother.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aw this was so lovely reminds me of my second labour was pretty much same as yours my birthing pool was ready but was too late she wasn’t hanging about,aww hope your both keeping well xx