Samuel David Thomas Willoughby 7lb 12oz on 24/6/08 14.44pm Yay!!!! Finally i have my son in my arms not my tummy! I had the induction as planned, luckily i had already dilated enough to not need gels and The doctor simply broke my waters and put me on and Oxytocin IV, in his words 'we are going to flog you, get this moving' and wow they did!!! After all my praise of epidurals in my last blog, i chose to have one again and it didnt work I was left with the right side of my body reeling in pain and the left almost paralyzed! Then the left side suddenly came back to life and i ended up having a basically 'natural' labour. Luckily i was only in labour four hours this time  and because i was able to feel myself bearing down Samuel only took four pushes!!! I was gobsmacked as i'd expected to go for days!! Even my hubby was astounded he had made the pubs opening hours for 'wetting the babies head' Typical.

I had a few complications, i felt like i couldnt breath at about 9cm and started to hyper ventilate (which my hubby thinks was mothers intuition that Sam was in distress as his cord was wrapped very tightly twice around his neck and he was born blue) Also i had alot of meconium during delivery of which he had swallowed some so when he took his first breath his breathing was a little impaired so they took him off to special care which was heart breaking but he was back with me within ten minutes as he seemed to pick up pretty quickly! Then i heamoragged 750mls (i lost 500 with Elliot) to be precise that was actually worse than my labour i think because i was petrified! I had midwives pumping at my tummy trying to rid of blood and yuckyness and threats of transfusions. I dont think i should of gone so far over, the doctor called in three others to look at Sams placenta which was literally disintergrating it had huge holes and looked terrible.

I just wanted to hold my boy! Daniel (hubby) was amazing and constantly re assuring me and bringing Sam to me so i could take my mind of what was happening, I ended up with a 2nd degree tear which was actually an old episiotomy scar that popped and some grazing but it was totally worth it and although im petrified to have anymore children after my labours Id love to extend my family in the future. I chose not to continue breast feeding this time on day three, grazed nipples a very very sore tummy and pure exhaustion i decided to formula feed to try give Dan and I a little extra sleep (so far it has worked but only during the day) haha but it works better for us anyway. Have to see a paediatrician next week for Sam to have his tongue tie corrected (strangely Elliot had tongue tie too) and then its just me and my boys There really is no love like a mothers i absolutely adore my boys and sometimes feel my eyes fill with tears purely of happyness watching Elliot play and thrive. I may whinge to people about how bad my labours are and how terrible it was going over my due dates but my goodness i would definately do it all over and over!! xx

Well i was due on 14th June and after being 4 days over with my first son before labour started (six by the time he arrived!) I wasn't expecting to have a suprise 38wk baby but wow this little monster has given his brother a run for his money and beaten his record! I'd had a docs app on wed (40+4) and had been told i was 2cm dilated 40% effaced so had gotten my hopes up on going into labour that evening!!

I woke yesterday 41+1 with period pain and got myself really excited! Cleaned the entire house and took Elliot for a walk in his jogger for an hour up and down the biggest hills in our area! Sat down to lunch at one and bam contractions every ten minutes woo hoo it continued until 7pm that evening and i had a bloody show yay!!

After ringing the hospital my midwife told me it sounded like progress was finally being made and told me to rest up and drink lots of fluids! Murphys law i hung up and absolutely nothing.... not even a niggle after that i was extremely depressed! I had an app again today which confirmed the worst.. no progress has been made at all :( Spencer is still way up high and not sitting anywhere near let alone on my cervix and i havent dilated anymore than i had a week ago.

I've now been booked for a day ten induction ( June24th) and i am so nervous, with my first my hind waters broke so i knew labour was imminent but i failed to dilate and was given oxytocin to bring on stronger contractions. I have never experienced pain like i did after that and although i know labour isnt called labour for nothing i seriously thought i was going to die!

My contractions over lapped and the midwife  had to remove the IV the try help me relax, gas and air did nothing and made me feel nauseus, Pethidine sent me to another planet but still the pain was immense so finally after over a day and a half i was given the news! 'It looks like a Ceaser' I was given the gas and air back whilst a doc was sent for to give me a prep talk (funnily enough the gas and air suddenly worked and felt amazing!) After about an hour i was given an epidural and my goodness.. all the bad press and gossip about those things (i was once one of those narrow minded i will never have an epidural people) IT WAS FANTASTIC, a few hiccups to start with, it worked only on one side which the doc soon had fixed and admittedly was very sore to have adminstered but my goodness i suddenly knew everything was going to be ok and was now concerned about how my hair looked rather than when i was going to drop off the bed!

I managed to pursuade the doc to give me just half an hour to see if anything would happen.. (to now i had only been at two cms and wasnt moving) and he agreed and hey presto within twenty mins of being calm i had dilated to 9cm YAY so with that the doc allowed me to try and deliver Elliot vaginally.

I pushed for about ten mins and was so weak the docsuggested a vacuum, he explained this would need an episiotomy but may help him out and i agreed (Elliot was posterior and had his head turned to one side so was struggling to fit through!) So i was given the Epizzy and i pushed doc pulled and within twenty mins my boy was here and happy! I had 66 stitches.. but the elation by far out weighed any pain!  I used a hair dryer on stitches as suggested and they healed wonderfully with no problems at all and 8 weeks later i wanted another baby to complete our family and keep our children close in age.

Elliot was four months old when we found out we were 4 weeks pregnant and we actually had lots of negative comments from people inc family! But we were over the moon.. and this little monster has kept his family waiting now hehehe but i know just like Elliot he will be toatlly worth every moment, every comment andevery stitch!!!