Alexaviers Wonderful Birth Story :)

Lex and Mummy


Lex in his lil fluffy coat


Lex a few hours after he was born still at hospital


About 30 seconds old, magical.

well i just wanted to write this down before it goes from my memory i want to remember every detail of this wonderful day ,it was so different to the birth of my dd which u can also read about in my journal.

well let me just say id had an absolutely horrible pregnancy. id had loads of problems and it was a scary time for me, i had back problems as in bad ones my spine had started to curve ,my muscles were coming away , i had pre-eclampsia again,i had bad morning sickness, and even my stomach muscles had started to rip apart, (with my dd it was totally the other way round i had the perfect pregnancy no troubles but a very traumatic birth). my midwife and doctor were really scaring me saying it would maybe be best fro me to have a c-section which i did not want for a number of reasons. so i was dreading this birth and was convinced it would be even worse than my first judging by all my pregnancy problems etc.

well i had my son on Wednesday 1st October, but the Sunday night before that weds at about 10 pm i started getting irregular contractions they were quite painful so on Monday morning i went and got checked at hospital, i was convinced they'd keep me in as with all my problems in pregnancy and i was 9 days overdue and they didn't want me to go too overdue coz of my pre-E but anyway at hospital the monitor picked up a few minor contractions and turns out i had an infection /(pregnancy one) but didn't look like bubba was coming. i then got examined and i was only 1cm so they gave me a membrane sweep. they were also worried that by there measurements my son hadn't grown much in the last month so i was sent for an u/s and i was told that my boy was on the small side and would deffo be smaller than my dd who was 6lb8oz they thought around 6lb he'd be.anyway they sent me home after that and i was having the odd contraction on and of.

for some reason i was really excited Tuesday night and had oads of energy even tho i was still getting the odd contraction, i decided to stay awake for as long as i could rather than try and sleep,by 2 am weds morning i just knew this is it i had such an intense contraction like nothing id felt not even with dd i knew i was in est labour. so i stuck these contractions that were coming every 4/5 Min's and lasting a good minute each time then at 5.30 am i had a big show of blood and other stuff and contractions came every 3 mins i knew it was time to go to hospital.

i had decided if i went into labour at night /early morning my OH would stay with my dd so she wouldn't feel like wed both abandoned her (shes only 2 ) so my mum came with me to hospital and they planned to swap round at midday . arrived at the hospital at quarter to 6 in the morning and got given the best birthing room it was nothing like my dds birth. the midwife done a check and said i was only 1 cm still i was distraught convinced i was gonna get sent home but the mw could see how regular and strong my contractions were and let me stay. i had a nice hot bath which lasted til 7 am and the contractions were still as strong and regular. it went on like this all morning ,when finally the mw decided to see if id progressed at about quarter to midday (my mum went out for this to phone Pete and tell him to get his bum up the hospital!!my bro had taken Leona for the day so mum ended up staying as well as Pete ) anyway i was nearly crying convinced i wasn't dilated any further then the mw said i was 6 cm !! yay i was sooo happy but then she said she had to break my waters which i was absolutely fine with and understood why she had to do it. she actually spent about 20 ins trying to break them as they were so tough they were hard to get into but she done that and it was a relief

by this point id decided i needed gas and air , i had managed with nothing p til then which was mazing considering what happened in my last birth(also to point ot that since 2 in the morning id remained active and standing up the whole time ,its how i survived without pain relief)Pete showed up at about 10 past midday and was getting used to my gas and air which was wonderful stuff i loved it!! I've since found out that i have a very small pelvis which is why each time I've spent 2 hours pushing which is quite along time for a pushing stage but basically i was getting contraction after contraction right on top of each other and pushing for absolutely ages with all my might. they tell u to grip your legs and push your chin down to your chest as hard as u can and when i done this i got a severe cramp in my leg it was worse than the contractions!! i know that sounds odd but it was extreme u could see all the muscles in a ball where they'd cramped up midwife was frantically rubbing my leg trying to ease it out as she knew this was affecting my pushing.

then everything changed, the midwife said hes coming now just push push push and i pushed and felt his head come out it was the best feeling ever , then i had to wait and do little breaths and i pushed again and felt his body slither out it was wonderful and he cried starlight away !!! omg it was gorgeous hearing that cry after what i went through with Leona and i was so proud as at the pushing stage the contractions were so in tense i didn't have time to breathe my gas and air so i virtually done it with nothing.they wrapped him in a towel and i noticed he had a huge blue birth mark over his back which worried me but that same day it faded to a tiny small red one just above his bum its cute.

his cord was wrapped twice around his neck so Pete didn't get to cut it bt i got to hold my son straight away it was the best moment it was so precious he was gorgeous ,beautiful everything i could of dreamt of . he weighed 7lb4oz (quite big considering they told me just 2 days earlier wed be lucky if he was 6lbs!!)he was born Wednesday 1st October at 2:42pm and we named him Alexavier Phoenix Mills. i had a second degree tear which had to have quite a few stitches in and i got stitched up with no meds or anything as the anesthetic didn't work and they gave it to me twice but didn't have any effect so that was painful.

i was out of the hospital by 10 0clock that night to get home to my baby girl Leona and i have to say shes an amazing big sister and adores her lil brother .my baby boy has to be the most peaceful happiest content baby ever and i am the proudest luckiest mum in the world

sorry its been so long but like i say it was really for me to remember more than anything it was such a special day.
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