I found out I was pregnant with my third child and fifth pregnancy in October 2015, just after my mums funeral. Bittersweet but much wanted!
I brought myself a doppler which was an amazing help before my first scan at 12 weeks. I found the baby's heartbeat at around 9 weeks and I felt so relieved! To hear the healthy thump of a heartbeat after suffering two miscarriages was amazing.
I had sickness as usual and tiredness like never before. I felt so drained and only gained 18lbs with my pregnancy which I lost the week I gave birth. The first scan came and I had to go alone as my older boys were sick so I waited, terrified incase there was an issue. There thankfully was no problems with baby and I went home with some lovely scan pictures.
I paid for a private 17 weeks scan to find out baby's gender and I was shocked to find out she was a girl. I never expected a girl after 2 boys so I was in tears! Off I went to buy lots of pink and girly things!
20 weeks scan all was fine, a very healthy baby girl (still a girl!) and at 28 weeks I had a gestational diabetes check which was horrible. I had to fast for 24 hours then drink some thick oily liquid and go back for repeat bloods 2 hours later. Once it was done I ate some lunch and was sick for the rest of the day. Not a nice experience but my bmi was 33 so high and needing a GD test during pregnancy.
Results all clear and pregnancy continued nicely.
I got to the 39 week mark (longest pregnancy so far, 1st was 38wks 3days and 2nd was 38wks 6days) I felt like my vagina was about to fall out on the school run (nice!) and had to be driven home. Fell asleep from 9:30-12:30 and felt funny. I was watching Loose Women on ITV and felt twinges every 10 mins. Just mild period pain aches and back/hip ache. Waddled round Lidl and then picked kids up from school and nursery, Kids dad took them to his parents just in case anything happened later on so I relaxed and ate crisps on the sofa watching The Chase. Pains were still there every 10mins so off I went for a bath around 5:30pm. That made things worse! Pain got more intense but still in hips and back every 10mins.
Phoned midwife around 7pm and she said to come in, so off I went and got there about 9pm. Midwife was amazing and had my mums name (Diane)
She examined me and said I was 2-3cm and she didnt think I was contracting "properly" as it wasnt felt in my bump, just my back and hips. She said we could go home around 9:30pm but we stayed as things ramped up quickly. I needed gas and air around 10pm and we thought the birthing pool would be needed soon. While waiting for the pool to fill up, I got more intense contraction with only 3-5mins between them and gas and air wasnt really cutting it now. Midwife still not sure I was going to have a baby that night but I got into the pool just before 11pm.
She left the room for a while which to me felt like an hour! We called her back in around 11:15pm and she realised I needed her to stay! While having painful contraction, she wanted me to face her and prop myself so she could see if baby was close or if my waters were bulging (they hadnt broken yet) and trying to balance so she cold see with her mirror while in the middle of a contraction was hell for me!
11:58pm Gemma was born in her water sac (which midwife broke and pulled away from her face as she came out) She was 7lb 15oz and my biggest baby. She looked so tiny and new and I couldnt believe it was over! I had to stay til I could give a urine sample (which took til 3am!) then we got home at 5am and had around 2 hours broken sleep. I woke up with a massive jump and shock thinking "wheres the baby!?) when she was in her cot fast asleep at one point during that little sleep.
I couldnt believe she was finally here and I still look at her now and cant believe she is MY little girl x
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