I was fortunate enough to have a really good birthing experience. I was 37 and was worried about the fact that i was an older mum but worked up until a month before giving birth and walked a lot...the day i gave birth i had walked at least 3kms..(well waddled not so much walked).
At around 1am that night , i felt really uncomfortable and called the hospital, they told me to take some panadols and have a shower. I did and i still felt some pain (like period pain), i didn't realise i was having contractions.
I told my husband to take me to the hospital and once i got there i was told that i had already dilated to 4cm. My doctor came and told me it could be hours before i was ready, at around 2am the real painful contractions started but they were bearable and i just didn't even think to ask for any relief .
At around 3am, i was taking to the birthing suite and told to just relax and even use those gym balls, my husband went to park the car and i was alone, that's when i felt like going to the toilet , in the toilet i could feel sth trying to push thru vaginal canal but i thought i needed to just go to toilet...
I suddenly realised that noone was in the room with me and in 5 mns when my husband came back i screamed at him to call a nurse. At 4am my doctor arrived and in half an hour i had given birth.....i was pushing for half an hour which i thought was a lot and at one point i told the doctor i was going to push anymore as it hurt and the baby would just have to stay in there....
It's funny how your body just knows what to do and takes control... it wasn't all good though, i did have an episiotomy and was in pain for 4 days due to that and some lovely haemorrhoids,,,,so when the midwife came in a day after i had given birth and told me that i could attend some postnatal classes, i thought she was having me on... but there were women there who had just had caesareans ,..so i couldn't complain.
It all seems so surreal to me now and i the memory of how painful it was is fading fast, i suppose it does that so we aren't turned off from having more children!
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