Skyla-Grace Louise Westwood was born at only 36 weeks old on Thursday 1st November 2012 at 3:12am weighing a tiny 5lb14oz
Altho I was very blessed to be carrying a child I didnt have a very easy pregnancy, I suffered from pre-eclampsia. During the night of the 24th October I was having very sore cramps just under my bump so decided to research on Google as to what these cramps could be, from what I had read alot of people were experiencing the same as me and had been told it was just stretching/growing pains so altho I was hurting quite abit I talked myself into thinking I was just being a whimp and not to worry. That morning I woke up feeling very wet so in a panic I woke Kane telling him I thought my waters had broke but when we looked under the cover there was no water just fresh red blood and my bump had gone from being solid to now feeling like jelly. I was convinced I had lost our baby on phoning the delivery suite they told me to hurry straight in. I cried with heartbreak the whole journey to the hospital. When I arrived they hooked me up to a montior and there it was.... a heartbeat! Perfect!!!
So why the bleeding??? No idea! Still to this day no one is able to provide any answers.
I had a swab taken that came back positive that I will be going into labour within the next 24-48hrs! There was a mixture of neves and excitement between me and Kane, we couldnt wait to meet our baby and find out the sex but we was also worried how early the baby was. I was given steroid injections to help the babies lungs if it was to arrive early.
I stayed over in hospital and woke again the next day covered in blood again! We had an ultrasound to check the babies growth. The baby was growing well but didnt have much water around it. This didnt seem to bother the Midwifes altho I had read some scary stories about leaving the hospital with broken waters and getting infections. As the baby seemed fine the hospital decided that it was okay for me to leave!! So much for the Hormone swab test that showed I was going to go into labour.
I spent a couple of days at home resting and then spent an evening cramping and constantly going to the toilet with the poos and sickness so called the hospital and was asked to go back in. I was put on a drip as I was dehydrated. After a couple of nights in hospital they decided to induce me. I had the 1st pill inserted and started getting really bad cramping again in the same region as I did before the bleeding. The cramps came regularly, so regular that I could time them like you could contractions. I was told they were nothing to be concerned about and wasnt contractions. I was due to have the 2nd pill inserted 6hrs later but the "delivery suite was closed" Ive never heard anything so ridiculous in my life! They had closed the delivery suite as it was too busy! So people who were at home in labour were asked to drive to a hospital 1hr30mins away! I was eventually given my 2nd pill a day after these cramps were getting worse! The midwife that was now on duty kept telling me they were just "niggles" those "niggles" were bloody painfull!! at midnight those "niggles" were so bad I was shouting in pain, the midwife gave me paracetamol to help (paracetamol hardly helps a headache let alone the pain I was in!) A new midwife came on her shift and advised me that I must be in labour! Altho they wasnt tightenings like contractions. They were cramps under my bump and in my back. She did an internal examination and I was 4cm dilated. I kept feeling the need to push but was told that I should wait as the delivery suite was still closed!! The paracetamol was no use and the pain was getting worse. Eventually at around 2.30am I was taken onto the delivery suite and given gas and air and was still being told not to push and to wait until a midwife was free to break my waters. I ignored advice and pushed! My waters broke :-D
Then within the next push the head was out and another huge push and our baby GIRL was born! (There was hardly any umbillical cord!!) Kane was in tears and I was still a little confused it had happened so quickly and already overdosed on gas and air!
I stared at her for the next 4hrs (as I was just left in my blood waiting for someone to be available to give me some stictches!) When the Dr finally arrived to do my stitches it was all so rushed and the pain relief didnt work, I felt every stitch going in it was awful. just when I thought all the pain was over :(
She was sooooo worth every second of pain and I would go thru it all again over and over for her.
I was discharged that evening at 10pm (after alot of agro I must admit)
Finally home with our little princess! Welcome to the world Beautiful!!
