Induction and a birth story

I was booked in for induction on tues 5th nov 2013 when I would be term plus 5 on the grounds of unstable blood pressure.  On the way we stopped at Starbucks for a yummy Xmas orange mocha and a cinnamon swirl!  We arrived in time for our 11.30 appointment but as always with these things we were kept waiting I was hooked up to the ctg just in time for the doctor to come on the ward. It was a male doctor and at first I was apprehensive about having an internal but to be fair he was much more gentle than any others! He said I was 2-3cm dilated and so would only need the gel which needs to be in for 6hours, this was a huge relief as was convinced they'd make me have the pessary and wait 12 hours!

Once the gel had been in for half an hour we went for a walk unfortunately it was raining so we went through the hospital to the front where there's a Booth's supermarket, Chris joked on the way as all these old dears kept overtaking me! I felt like my bum was literally going to fall out! When we got back to the ward I found I'd suddenly sprung haemorrhoids what a time for them to pop out!

It was around tea time I started with irregular contractions and was reattached to the ctg about 8pm as hadn't really felt any movements this showed I was having contractions but not regular and they peetered off towards the end of the trace.  We were just waiting for a bed for them to break my waters.  They took my blood pressure and it had peaked to 175/98 at just after 9 so she tried to get me laid down on the bed to relax and said she'd recheck in a few minutes. I wasn't comfortable the pain in my back was unbearable I went for a wee and came over really sick but couldn't be sick.  When I came out of the bathroom the contractions seemed closer together when all of a sudden had to tell Chris was fighting the urge to push! Never seen him move so fast to get a midwife two appeared and got me on the bed to check what was going on baby's head was there but waters not gone. 

They got me in a wheelchair and into the lift before could catch my breath up to the delivery suite where they got me on the bed and she just about got the nozzle on the gas three pushes and out came our beautiful little girl at 22.51. Officially my labour was classed as 45mins  I didn't even get the midwife's name until after it was all that quick, she didn't get to fill in any paperwork either.  Unfortunately because she came so quickly I ended up with a third degree tear so was whisked up to surgery pretty quickly to be fixed up! It was when I returned from theatre that I got Laura the midwife's name. Definitely the way to do it they say the next one is like shelling peas - not a bad description!