I thought I’d write something a little different and more personal, so I’m going to be sharing my birth story!

My due date was 9th April. On the 31st March 2019 (Mother’s Day) I woke at around 4:30 with cramps, and tried to go back to sleep, they were so minor I didn’t take notice. At 5:30 I moved to sit up and I thought I’d wet the bed…turns out it was my back waters. I didn’t even know you had 2 sets of waters!

At this point I woke Georgie up, we rang the maternity ward, and were told to come in. We got to the hospital around 7:30, where I was took to a room, had a band across my stomach to track contractions and I had a check to see if my waters had actually gone and if id started labour. I had, I was 2CM dilated, and was told if my first waters hadn’t broke by themselves by the following morning I’d be induced. They sent me home.

From the hospital, we went to Georgie’s moms house where we spent most of the day sorting through Georgie’s old baby things, where we discovered a Liverpool kit from 1997 which has been put in Carters room ready for when he’s bigger!

Around 3pm my contractions where every 7ish minutes, but they have a rule you have to have at least 3 contractions within 10 minutes before they’d let you stay, so I had a bath as the contractions were getting worse and we watched the remainder of the Liverpool match. At 7:30 we went to the hospital finally!

At the hospital they decided to keep me in, which I was relieved all I wanted was some pain relief! Unfortunately all they can offer is paracetamol at the start. At around 9:30 we got moved to a ward which at the moment was empty, I had a gym ball to sit on, a bath to relax in but I couldn’t get comfy! I just kept walking back and forth and getting Georgie to rub my back when I had a contraction!

At 1am I was allowed pethidine. I was unsure before I was in labour if I’d of had it but I’m glad I did, it made me sick nearly immediately, but it also made me feel like I was drunk but the pain was minimal, still there but minimal.

I was told at 1, that I was going to have my waters broke at 5:30, so around 4 my drugs wore off and I felt everything! I was put onto an ECG Machine as my heart rate was extremely high! I was in agony but I couldn’t have anything else yet, so I had to go until they’d broke me waters then they offered me an epidural, this was given to me about 5:45, but because of how fast my contractions were they kept having to take the needle back out so they didn’t actually fit the tubes until 6:50. (I didn’t realise that an epidural you have to release the drugs yourself with a button that takes 20 minutes to get into your system). At 6:50 I was telling the midwife I needed to push, she disagreed I told her again and she checked and I was in fact crowning!

At 7:06 our baby was here, lying on me, all swollen and puffy, more beautiful than I ever could of realised. Soon after he was put on me he was took away and put onto a machine as he wasn’t breathing properly. They thought that because he came out so quickly that It has sent him into shock! He was on the machine for a while until they were confident he could breathe properly.

My little baby was 8lb 1! So I couldn’t even imagine how big he would of been if I’d of gone full term! Georgie cried, I could barely lift my head. I had to have multiple stitches, and 3 IV drips because I was so dehydrated! As soon as I had my energy I just couldn’t stop looking at my little angel. The love I felt was unconditional!

I was in labour for what felt like forever! But it was so worth it, such an amazing experience, not only for me but to share with Georgie. He was an outstanding birthing partner, so supportive, he was amazing I couldn’t of asked for anyone better to support me!

At half 9 on the night we were discharged and aloud home. It was surreal. I was officially a mom, even now I find it crazy to say “my son” amazing!