Alright. I didn't go into labour myself. I had to be induced at forty-two weeks because there was no sign of my daughter being born. And they ruptured my membranes but nothing much happened and then he put up the drip with the Syntocinon [oxytocin] which is to try and make the pregnancy, to try and make the labour become established and the uterus contract. And as soon as they did that my daughter's heart beat started to go down and come up again and then go down again. So they were, the staff were rather anxious about that. And that happened several times and then it suddenly just dropped down and then stayed down for several minutes, so that time they said, “No, you know, the baby's distressed. You need to have an emergency caesarean section,” so that, that happened within about ten minutes.
Mmm. How did that, how did that feel to suddenly have your labour taken over by all these people?
It was, it was very strange having labour taken over by other people. It was a bit like something out of ER. Something, you know, you were lying in the room with just yourself and a midwife and then suddenly she pressed a button and I think they could read the tracing in the doctors' office and about fifteen people rushed into the room. You know, several doctors and several midwives and then you were just being rushed on the trolley down to theatre. And it happened so incredibly quickly. I think, I knew it was a possibility because the - earlier on in the day they'd been watching the heart beat going down and I'd, I'd had, I'd had an epidural earlier on and the anaesthetist said, you know, "I might be seeing you later on" because, you know, he'd seen the tracing as well. So there was some suggestion that it might have to happen, so it wasn't completely a surprise. But it was, the speed at which it happened was, was quite a surprise really.
Did, were you disappointed to have a caesarean rather than a natural delivery?
Yes, I think I was slightly disappointed. I think I'd hoped to have a normal, natural delivery and - really because I hadn't managed to get pregnant myself, and I hadn't managed to go into labour myself, so I thought it would be quite nice to do something normally, but it wasn't to be. And in the end it, it wasn't a big issue, I don't think, for me, because, you know, we had a healthy baby which, you know, at one stage we didn't think we would have. And that was the main thing. And I think in the end, you know, several months later how I delivered wasn't a feature at all. It was the end result was by far the most important thing for me. |
