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The birth of my baby boy!

Im 18 years old. I had my baby boy when i was 17. He is now 7 months old. Hes so beautiful. It was 3 days before my due date. It was 1am when i got up to go to the toilet. When i stood up out of bed i felt something warm between my legs. I didnt no wat to think. I changed my pjs and went to the toilet. When i sat on the toilet i felt a big gush. I knew my waters had broke. I knocked on my mams bedroom door but she didnt hear me. So i went into my room and rang my boyfriend and told him. He was sooo excited. I went into my mams room and woke her. She called the hospital and they said to come straight in. We collected my boyfriend on the way. When i got ther they monitored my babys heartbeat for about an hour. They also checked if my waters were defintely broken and when they did that more water gushed out. Thats when i started to get mild pains in my back. I still wasnt getting any contractions so they sent my mam and boyfriend home for some rest. They told me to get some sleep until the morning. After lying down for about a half hour i started getting really bad pains. I called the midwife and told her i couldnt handle the pain. So she brought me down to the labour ward. And thats when i started screaming cause the pain was so bad. She checked me and i was 5cms dilated. She gave me a shot of pethidine but it didnt make a difference. She gave me the gas and air but i didnt want it cause i thought it didnt work. So she called my boyfriend and he came straight to the hospital. H was so worried when he saw i was in so much pain. H kept tellin me to take the gas and air so i tried it. But threw it on the ground after ten minutes cause nothing was happening. The midwife checked me again and i was ready to push. I hated the feeling of pushing cause i had no control over it. When i felt the head come out i was screaming with the pain. It was so sore. I thought i was going to die. I felt his head and it felt so weird. After a few more long hard pushes my baby boy was out. I was so relieved the pain was over. The midwife put him on my chest and i felt so proud. He looked so cute with his squished up face. He weighed 6punds 13ounces. I didnt need any stictches i was delighted. And now im a proud mammy of a beautiful 7month old baby boy.

ProudTeenMammy

Shocking Labour

well mi waters broke at 9 am on monday morning. i went to the hospital and they told me i was 3 centre meters dilated and that i could go home so when i got home i started gettin contractions in my lower back so i rang my midwife back up and she said to back in so i did and then she said i was 5 centre meters dilated and that she had to take me to the birthing suite so we got up there and then i started to dilate realy slow so i went throw 13 hours of labour because i finally got to 9 centre meters when i wanted to start pushing but every time i started to push it went down to 8 centre meters then 7 then 6 and then my doctor and midwife told me i was bleeding internal and my sons heart rate was slowing down and that i had to go for an emergency c section at 1:10 am on tuesday monrning. so i went to thearter had me son at 2:21 am tuesday morning but then i started to bleed out i lost 4 litres of blood nd my son stoped breathing twice and then i neva got to see him for a day and thats my story

jade

funny and painful

This being my second child was happy once again and anxious for the baby to get here. I was ready for the ninth month to come and when it did I didn't expect half as much as I got. I woke up at 4 in the morning with contractions. I didn't pay any mind to them because I was just 38 weeks. Later on I realized they were still coming and they was gettin close. I was calling everyone letting them kno but the main person I couldn't get in touch with was the baby father...he was at work. So I had my cousin by my side. Soon they hit the 5 min apart so I'm on my way to the hospital. On mii way they ended up 2 min. I felt the baby pressing down on every thing...just ready to come out. I get in the hospital finally n they was trying to wheel me up. I couldn't sit for anything so I walked to my room. On my way to the room my water broke at the elevator. The doctor freaks out. LOL!! I finally get to my room and put my gown on. The doctor tells me to lay down n I went crazy. My baby is coming!!!...I yelled bout 3 times. So she calls for the table. Now I was screamin trying to close my legs n pushing. The doctors kept tellin me to push I told them no n I wasn't able. the doctors was doing to much feeling around so I started pushing them n throwing their hands away from me. Then I realized his head was right there n I had this cute white doctor by my side tellin me I could do it...so I quit yelling took a deep breath n pushed. His head popped out. Push one more time n Its A Boy every body yelled. Omg I cried all that pain for one special person. He was 7 lbs straight up n 20 inches.6 11 09!!!

Meka

Afraid

This is my first child. I am due in 3 weeks. I just found out that the baby is breech and will most likely require a c-section. More than anything, I wanted to give birth naturally without drugs. So, finding out that I wouldn't be able to give birth the way I felt comfortable has been hard to accept. Everyone keeps telling me to just accept it and get over it. No one seems to care that I'm afraid of this procedure. I have been trying to read up on the operation, but it just makes me more uncomfortable. I'm surrounded by lots of wonderful people who care deeply but I feel so alone. I feel wrong for feeling this way, like maybe I'm just being stupid. I just wish someone would listen to the way I felt.

Becky

Little Complication, all worth it

I'm a 16 year old mum. Best thing that has ever happened to me. I thought nothing of getting pregnant and wasn't too worried. Nana told me that my period was late, she always kept track of it. She called my mum and asked her to take me for a pregnancy test. Once I took the test we didn't have to wait long. It showed up positive and all I could do was laugh. Everyone else cryed. I had a normal pregnany and all went fine. After 9 long months of waiting, I was timing the contractions and they just started hitting me harder and harder. My original midwife wasn't on call that night and I had to call my back up midwife. We picked up my best friend on the way to the hospital, about 12 in the morning. When we got there everything happened too fast but too slow at the same time. Nobody told me I was running a fever. They threw everything they could at me and nothing seemed to work. I was a little high on th gas too. After a short 4 hours ad 48 minutes of labour, I had my beautiful baby girl, Ruby-Jane. I stood up an hour after, just wanting a shower and a whole litre of blood just gushed out of me. I blacked out and woke up on the bed. I got rushed to a different hospital and just wanted my baby but nobody would give her to me and I coudn't understand why as no one told me what was going on. I went under a while later, I remember it being dark and too hot, then too cold. I also remembered seeing my great nana. I never told my nana as I knew it would break her heart. It was like that for what seemed 5 minutes, but it was actually hours. Later I found out that they almost lost me. I spent 5 days in hospital, and then went home. It was very scary but I think that my baby girl was worth everything.

Kirsten