Had my Baby Boy

Only a quick one as there is not much to say really.

On the day of the section we got to hospital just before 7am.
We saw all the people we needed to before the section. I was told I was 2nd on the list. which was good as I didn't fancy having to wait till the afternoon to eat again.

Half 9 I think it was I get walked round to theatre, had to wait a little as there was someone in there and 1 emergency. Was not waiting long though. I don't know if it didn't feel long because I was just excited to be finally getting him out or because I generally was not waiting long.

Got in there. and if you've had an section before you know what they do.
Put the spinal in the back wait for it to start working. They spray a cold substance on your side to make sure it is doing what it is meant to.

The time seemed to fly by while I was in there, the doctor was nice, in looks as well as personality.
I don't remember my section feeling the same as it did this time round.
defiantly felt more pressure and tugging. I could feel one of the nurses pushing on my bump to help get baby out.

I started crying when I heard him cry. I couldn't help myself. After the last 5 6 weeks it was a relief to hear him cry for the first time.

He was on February 21st at 10:35am weighing 6lb 14oz.

The recovery has been ok.
I did have to have my dressing changed due to bleeding.
The midwife I had the evening I had a my baby boy didn't seem to understand that it was a really struggle for me to actually pick up my son. Yet she made me feel so made for struggling and made me get on with it.
The midwife I had the day after was the same one I had the day I had my son, so that was handy and she was lovely.
She said that the reason why the scar/cut bleed like it did was because I did too much too soon.
Luckily she couldn't see where the bleeding had come from and it looked like it was healing well.
Hard to tell 24 hours after having a section.

I am finding that I can move round a bit better this time round still hurts quite a bit though.

Last night as a mum of 1

Sorry I've not posted this week.
It's not that I've been busy, it's actually been a good week.
Well that was till yesterday,

I had my pre-op appointment, which started of ok. Of course you expect delays with all the people you have to see, So that didn't bother me.
I was nearing the end of the appointment when the midwife asked me about fetal movement. It was then that I noticed that I hadn't felt him move all day.
Ended up having to go on the ctg where he still didn't move. Got sent to triage with something to eat and drink. left for almost 2 hours to see if he would move.
He moved once.
They gave me a choice of either staying or going home but either way I had to have another ctg in the morning.
Because of the section tomorrow I chose to go home. Well to my in-laws as they live closer.

I went back today. with only having felt him move 3 times over the course of the night. was on there half an hour with 1 movement. So got sent for a scan and then had to be hooked up to the ctg again.
Was on there an hour the second time. likely he started moving round then.
They have estimated his weight to be 6lb 9oz.

It will be a few days at least before I will be able to post again.
I have to be at the hospital for 7am tomorrow. At the moment I am second on the list for the section, but that was before all this happened. whether that will change or not tomorrow I don't know.

Over night stay

Well if you have been reading my posts lately, you'll know that I've been having quite a few irregular tightenings lately.
Well yesterday they were pretty painful, between 3 and 9 minutes apart, I had lost a pea size amount of my plug and had a bit of spotting. Which stopped pretty much as soon as it started.

So I phone triage (maternity unit) like I was told to if the pains got worse. I was told to come in to get checked.
Hubby told me to pack an over night bag just in case I needed it.
After dropping our little one off at hubby's parents we went to the hospital.
They did most of the usual checks.

• Blood pressure, which was 106/65 a little high for me.
• Pulse, 99BPM
• Where baby is, he's head down and 3/5 palpable, which I think means 2/5 engaged.

He's heart rate was a little lower then his normal.
Because I was in Friday for the same thing I had to have 2 steroid injections.
when they checked my cervix is was still high and closed. well they said it looked closed and would check internally but never did. My cervix is slowly coming down though.

After a night of on and off cramping I was checked over by the doctor this morning.
Baby is now free so no longer engaged although I think he's popped back in again.
They want to wait till I am 39 weeks before doing my section, which is next Friday. I have been told if I get cramping like it again or any new symptoms then to go back in.
I am guessing that means if I lose any more of my plug or have spotting again then they might doing the section earlier.

Always listen to your body

Sorry it's been a while again.
I spent most of Thursday and all of Friday in pain.
Thursday night I started get period pain type cramps, We DTD which made the cramping worse, which in a way is a good thing as I do want this baby out now.
All day Friday still cramping. Anything from 5 to 9 minutes apart some were as far as half an hour apart.
About half 8 that evening I couldn't take any more. So I phoned up my maternity unit and they told me to go in.
I get there and instead of being put in triage I get put in to the labour ward. Not sure if it was because triage was full or just because they thought labour was possible.
Anyway I get in there they check my blood pressure which turns out to be normal, and then hook me up to a machine that dose my heart rate. it pinged up 155bmp.
The midwife couldn't believe and even said "that can't be right". So she checks it herself. It wasn't 155 but it was high. 110bmp. "right we'll check that again later"  she says after checking.
I get hooked up to the CTG to make sure baby is ok and to check me for contractions.
I think I was on there almost an hour. I quite a few strong contractions. The midwife had to keep telling me to breath through them. Quite a few times she was saying theres one and looks painful.
I was contracting every 20 minutes and having BH's between them.
The doctor comes in and saying yes I am contracting every 20 minutes but still said they were Braxton hicks.
I was told baby was 2/5 engaged and when asked when my section was booked for gave me that look as if to say yea your not making it till then. Because of the pains and baby being that far engaged, they checked me over. My cervix is still long and closed. So doesn't look like baby will be arriving any time soon.

Yesterday I started feeling like I needed to pee more, At first I put it down to baby being engaged and pressing on my bladder, but then I noticed I was peeing a bit too much and that it started to hurt.
So I phoned out of hours doctor and went to see them. For all the appointments to be running over 2 hours late. The male receptionist to be lying to everyone, for me to get a doctor who was more interested in talking about kids then actually treating me. I went in thinking yea this is defiantly a UTI. The doctor said because there is no blood in my urine and I do not have a high temperature I don't have a UTI the pain and peeing loads is because I am washing too much.

I had such a bad night sleep that night. I was peeing every 5 minutes, and that's no word of a lie.
By lunch time today I had had enough I phoned out of hours doctor again and explained that I had phoned up yesterday and I wasn't happy with the information I was given yesterday. So this evening I went to see yet another doctor.
I get in there and the first thing that comes to mind was Joey from Friends kinda sounded like him as well.
Anyway me and hubby tell him was the doctor from yesterday told us, and he couldn't believe we were told that. He said you don't need a high temperature or blood in your urine to have a UTI. He said the dip sticks they use are not reliable enough to say whether someone has one or not.
He also said that going on my symptoms I do have a UTI.
I came out feeling so much better that I was actually listened to and that I was right in thinking I had one.

I guess it always pays to listen to your body. Don't let anyone fob you off, even a doctor. As my blog today proved doctors can be wrong. I'd hate to think what would have happened  if I hadn't seen another doctor and I just left it. I'd had to think what would have happened to my unborn son.

Had my growth yesterday

Yesterday I had my growth scan. Apart of me was kinda hoping for little growth, just because I'm so fed up. When I was told they are happy with his growth I was so relieved. Relieved he is growing, relieved that he's doesn't have IUGR, relieved that he's just a small baby.
I ended up on the CTG machine twice yesterday because of reduced movements. The first time I came out quite happy, he's growing and he's happy. The second time I came out an emotional wreck.
The midwife that saw me the second time actually really got to me. Apart of me thinks she doesn't believe that I'm not feeling him as much as I used to as I was on there 20 minutes and felt him 5 times while I was on there.
For some reason he'll go pretty much all day with hardly moving, yet while I'm on the CTG he'll start moving again. It was made worse by the midwife saying he may well be moving but I am just not feeling it. Then to add insult to injury my hubby adds that quite a few times he's felt baby move and I haven't. 
So last night I ended up hardly eating anything and going to bed feeling really low.
I've barely eaten today as I still feel like an emotional wreck, I feel so low. I hate feeling like this. I feel so stupid for feeling like this. I have to cope with another 2 and a half weeks wondering if he's moving and I'm not feeling it, or wondering if he's not actually moving.
I feel like I'm not being listened too.

On a happier not today I have reached the longest I've been pregnant. 36+5 weeks.

I get to hold my baby this month

Sorry for the lack of posts the last few days.
I'm sure I wrote about my last growth scan in my last post, so won't write about it again.
This week has dragged. I think it's just because I'm worried about what my growth scan tomorrow will show.
Nothing really happened during the week. It never really does to be honest. It's always the same old same old.

I almost made it a week without going back to the hospital. Almost.
Last night I ended up going back in. Again because of reduced movements. They were quite busy there last night. Triage was full, so they ended up using the induction ward.
I was on the CTG machine for a good half hour 40 minutes before baby started to move again. I'm still having irregular tightenings as they called them. Some of them actually felt more like contractions.
Baby is now 3/5 engaged. He'll more then likely pop back out though.
The midwife wrote on my note change of care plan. slightly concerning, She told me that next time I don't feel him move for a while, I have to monitor his movements for an hour, if nothing try everything to get him moving for another hour, if after that I have less then 4 movements in that hour to call up and go in to get baby checked.
I think they are finally getting concerned about all his lack of movements.
I am just glad I have my growth scan tomorrow. Hopefully get to find out what they have planned for me and baby.
Tomorrow is also the same stage of pregnancy I had my first. 36+4.
I don't think it will mean much to be honest, in the sense it has no relation to how my growth scan will go.
At the scan last weeks baby was estimated to be weighing 4lb 13oz. At this stage of pregnancy they should be gaining about half a pound a week, So really tomorrow if he is growing the way he should, we should be looking at almost 5 and a half pounds.

Had my growth scan

I had my growth scan this morning. It went ok. I am 35+4 weeks and baby is estimated to weigh 4lb 13oz at the moment. Which brings me down to the bottom centile line, where as before he was a little above it. He's measurements for his stomach has also dropped to the bottom centile line. So because of that I have to go back next week for another growth scan. So they must be a little concerned if they want me back next week. The consultant at the hospital did try and make a joke of it by saying well we don't expect you to have a 10lb baby.

I am not surprised he's only gained a pound in almost a month. I haven't gained anything in 3 weeks.

I ended up going back to the hospital this evening.
I phoned them up as my C-section scar felt like it was burning and I was also having some cramping. I thought that they'd just give me some advise over the phone, but nope they wanted me to go in and get checked.
Got there waited 45 minutes before being seen too. they were pretty busy. When I got seen to I got hooked up to a CTG machine. I was on there for over an hour. Every now and then they would say, oh we'll leave you on there a bit longer or oh another 10 minutes and we'll get you off. I got checked to see if I was dilating. luckily I'm not. Was given painkillers for the pain.
I was very almost admitted tonight. If I had not said the pain had eased they would have kept me in. The pain had not really got any better, but I just wanted to go home. The pain has eased now though. I've been told to take it easy and relax. if the pain gets worse or I am worried then to call again.