so i've been reading all these birth stories and realized to myself (what a slack mother I am) that i havent even documented my own little guys birth stories.
so i thought better late then never, right ?!
so here's the background before the birth.
makai's pregnancy was THE WORST i'm not even going to lie.
horrible turned me off birth (i think that's why brax was a surprised because i certainly wasn't going through all that again willingly.)
he measured small right from the get go, but as time went on the centimetres got further and furthur from the weeks i was due.
i had blood tests every week for the last 10 weeks every friday.
they got so used to me there they knew my whole life story.
i had to get these done because haemoglobin was very low, which would impact on me having an epidural (which i SO wanted)
i had to have ultrasounds for the last 10 weeks (which was not doing marvelous things for our bank account)
because of my measuring issues, i was told to quite work at 32 weeks and put on light duties and basically bed rest, because they could not figure out what was going on with the baby.
FINALLY at 38 weeks i had a scan were makai was starting to fall in the 2 percentile again for EVERYTHING.
at this point i had been put into see the doctor every week and put on that machine that measures the babies heart rate (see, it was so bad i have blocked out what the name of the machine is called) EVERYWEEK for 8 weeks, 30-45 mins each time.
i was told that i would have to be induced because of the baby dropping in the 2 percentile, it was safer for him now to be outside the womb then inside so they could get a better understanding of what was going on in their.
i was booked into the labour ward at 9am on the 8th April 2010.
i was so nervous, i don't think their are words to explain my horror and basically i was FREAKING out about giving birth - i wasn't ready.
9am - Arrived at Hornsby Hospital Labour Ward and was admitted
9:30am - Began the inducing process (they decided to use gel), after this I was told to go and walk because i was only if anything 2 cm dilated (they thought they were in for a LONG process)
1:30pm - Nothing was happening so I received my next bit of gel and at this point I was only 4 cm dilated. Was once again told to walk around and keep upright as much as possible, so i lied upright in bed watching Grey's Anatomy whilst Jevan had a nanna nap.
4:00pm - Mum and Rachel (my sister) arrive to see what was going on (they were my other support people)
5:30pm - Was given my 3rd and final dose of gel at this point i was 6 cm dialted and in no pain whatsoever, I even had the thought of I think I can actually do this, this is bearable. I hope in the bath because I did want to have a water birth as much as I could. I was told as soon as I started pushing I would have to get out because I was under the heading "High-Risk Birth." A lovely midwife named Carolina (i will never forget her name) said to me "I'm going to deliver this baby by the end of my shift, so if your water doesn't break within the next 1 1/2 hours I am going to break them so we can get this show on the road" My terror was now back.
6:30pm - No water broken, and coming to the end of Carolina's shift. She came in gave my an internal and told me I was still 6 cm dilated. She broke my waters (like she promised).
6:35pm - I'm not even joking, the pain came like flicking a light switch on - it was RIDICULOUSLY painful.
7:30pm - All i can remember saying is I can't do this anymore, I was it to stop. But then this urgency to push came out of no where and I knew it was almost over. The midwife said of you are fine you don't need to push (how wrong were they). They sat me up on the bed and knew then i was not lying with the head crowning.
7:43pm - After 13 minutes of pushing, our beautiful boy took his first breath into this world and our first son Makai Jevan Ormsby was born. In that moment I became a mother and I have never loved something so much so instantly before.
8/4/2010
7:43pm
2590 grams
42 centimeters
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