After checking things out, they confirmed that she was in early labour. It was hard to imagine that the time had come that our little girl was finally making her debut on planet earth. Well, the strange feeling didn't last long as we were soon told to go home and continue early labour "somewhere comfortable".
On Thursday, we thought that the pain and the frequency of the contractions warranted another trip to the hospital. After another CTG the contractions were not frequent enough and we were sent home again. We used whatsapp to keep recording each contraction which was coming in at about every 15 minutes.
She then had an emergency. Her tummy suddenly had two baby bumps, not just one! She said she had some pain near her bladder, she hadn't urinated since the morning and we decided we need to go to the hospital. Now and fast.
We got to the hospital and their assessment was that she had a bladder blocked by the baby's head. She would need a catheter inserted to manually drain the bladder. 1.1 litres came out into a bag.
The doctor said he would need to break her waters because of the situation, we were sent to the labour ward and she was hooked to an inducer. Mid way through the evening she decided that she would like to get an epidural, something we didn't really think we would do.
The evening wore on, and quite uneventful as each contraction came and went without much of a reaction from my wife. Obviously the epidural hit the right spot. At one point she was dilated to 7cm so we were expecting that she would be delivering in the next few hours. Four hours passed and she was still at 7cm! The c word was starting to come up when a midwife asked her to get on her side. Half an hour later, the doctor said she could now deliver naturally as she was fully dilated! However, they recommended an episiotomy, she went ahead with it but during the birth, she suffered a third degree tear! Within half an hour, she was whisked away to the operation theatre and I was left holding Abigail in my arms in an empty labour ward, our little girl straining to turn her head looking around the deserted room quietly. She was finally here!
She then had an emergency. Her tummy suddenly had two baby bumps, not just one! She said she had some pain near her bladder, she hadn't urinated since the morning and we decided we need to go to the hospital. Now and fast.
We got to the hospital and their assessment was that she had a bladder blocked by the baby's head. She would need a catheter inserted to manually drain the bladder. 1.1 litres came out into a bag.
The doctor said he would need to break her waters because of the situation, we were sent to the labour ward and she was hooked to an inducer. Mid way through the evening she decided that she would like to get an epidural, something we didn't really think we would do.
The evening wore on, and quite uneventful as each contraction came and went without much of a reaction from my wife. Obviously the epidural hit the right spot. At one point she was dilated to 7cm so we were expecting that she would be delivering in the next few hours. Four hours passed and she was still at 7cm! The c word was starting to come up when a midwife asked her to get on her side. Half an hour later, the doctor said she could now deliver naturally as she was fully dilated! However, they recommended an episiotomy, she went ahead with it but during the birth, she suffered a third degree tear! Within half an hour, she was whisked away to the operation theatre and I was left holding Abigail in my arms in an empty labour ward, our little girl straining to turn her head looking around the deserted room quietly. She was finally here!
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