I was 42 weeks and 1 day pregnant and despite desperately wanting a spontaneous labour and a natural birth, I had resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to be induced. I woke up with pains, the morning before my induction at 3:50 am. I didn’t get my hopes up, because I’d woken […]
Labour
Introducing Baby Bear
After resigning myself to the fact that I was simply NOT going to go into labour naturally and that I would have to endure the hell of induction again, I woke up in labour at 3:50 am on 18th July 2016. I was 42 weeks and 1 day pregnant and scheduled for induction the very […]
HELLP Syndrome – Part 1
Finally I’m ready to blog my ordeal, so following on from The Gory Birth Story…. Having just given birth to two beautiful and tiny, but healthy, baby girls, the natural motherly instinct is to cuddle them and cry with overwhelming happiness and relief. But as I look through my maternity notes I see the sickening […]
The Gory Birth Story
Induction 13th May 2012… We arrive at the hospital at 10:00 am for my induction and spend 3 hours waiting around as they sent us to the wrong ward and we had to wait for a room on the delivery suite. Once there, things got moving quickly, my obs were taken, I was examined as 2 […]
Patience for the patients
To my loyal blog readers… Sorry for the huge gap in posts. The twins and me are still in hospital and things still aren’t going right for us. Tiny has gotten a little bit sick and is losing weight so she is being admitted to Neonatal care. I’m so stressed and poorly and exhausted that […]