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Well after finally recovering from a very emotional and anxious birth! I am a dad to a little girl, she was born 12:51 on Saturday 2nd February by emergency C section. And when I say emergency it was defiantly that!
Due to some problems on the Tuesday before the Girlfriend was called back to the hospital on the Friday to have baby monitored for an hour and was told she would be induced on the Saturday, a day early. So sat down and ordered a Domino's Friday evening for the girlfriend to tell me she was having contractions due to a sweep being carried out by the hospital during the check. Contractions got to the point where the hospital told us to come in. We sat for what seems like days to me, waiting to see what was happening but every time they went to break the waters the baby moved away from being engaged so after three attempts they left it till Saturday morning.
Change of shift Saturday morning and a new midwife decided at just after 9 to get the show on the road. Waters broke and we sat there waiting, baby had a clip put on it's head to monitor it's heartbeat and at this point it was discovered baby had it's hand on it's head! So we sat and let nature take it's course and was advised as baby came down to be born, the hand on the head would be pushed out the way and come head first. After about 3 hours and my girlfriend saying she was feeling like the need to push she was then examined to discover baby had decided to put it's hand out first Superman style!
I was asked if I wanted to view such a sight my first choice wasn't too but was advised it was a very rare occurrence, so had a quick peek most bizarre site seeing your baby hand holding the midwifes finger, specially in that area!
Then things took a turn for a worse as a senior midwife was called in and carried out a examination too followed by an very brief ultrasound scan, then a decision to carry out a C section was made and it needed to be over and done with within 10 minutes, turns out baby had cord around it's protruding arm and also around it's neck! Next thing we knew there was about 8 members of staff in the delivery room, alarms and pagers going on and the curtain was flung back, door was wide open with another 4/5 people waiting outside the room.
Girlfriend was whisked off to the theater where she was placed under general anesthetic, I wasn't allowed in so had to nervously sit and weight, 15 minutes passed, which felt like an hour and someone came to tell me I was a Daddy to a little girl, 10 minutes later I had my little girl in my arms. Another hour passed till my girlfriend was brought out of theater in a lot of pain and given lots of morphine and other lovely drugs to reduce the pain. After about another half hour or so while she became I bit more aware of where she was and reassured all was ok she finally got to hold her little girl.
We are now all home and it wasn't till after we had seen all the specialists coming to check on us in the ward and finally being discharged, that when we sat down at home and read the hospital notes we realized why everything happened in a flash like it did. Appears baby and mum were classed as a CS1 which equates to imminent danger of life to mum or baby unless action was taken.
I know recently the NHS takes a bashing over problems it has, but me and my girlfriend couldn't say thank you enough to every single person that looked after us and was there when we needed them. Without them we might not have our little bundle of joy. I will honestly say I have never been so scared and so happy in one day than I was on Saturday 2nd February.
I have put some pictures up here if anyone wants to see my little trouble maker http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=5360793#post5360793
Due to some problems on the Tuesday before the Girlfriend was called back to the hospital on the Friday to have baby monitored for an hour and was told she would be induced on the Saturday, a day early. So sat down and ordered a Domino's Friday evening for the girlfriend to tell me she was having contractions due to a sweep being carried out by the hospital during the check. Contractions got to the point where the hospital told us to come in. We sat for what seems like days to me, waiting to see what was happening but every time they went to break the waters the baby moved away from being engaged so after three attempts they left it till Saturday morning.
Change of shift Saturday morning and a new midwife decided at just after 9 to get the show on the road. Waters broke and we sat there waiting, baby had a clip put on it's head to monitor it's heartbeat and at this point it was discovered baby had it's hand on it's head! So we sat and let nature take it's course and was advised as baby came down to be born, the hand on the head would be pushed out the way and come head first. After about 3 hours and my girlfriend saying she was feeling like the need to push she was then examined to discover baby had decided to put it's hand out first Superman style!
I was asked if I wanted to view such a sight my first choice wasn't too but was advised it was a very rare occurrence, so had a quick peek most bizarre site seeing your baby hand holding the midwifes finger, specially in that area!
Then things took a turn for a worse as a senior midwife was called in and carried out a examination too followed by an very brief ultrasound scan, then a decision to carry out a C section was made and it needed to be over and done with within 10 minutes, turns out baby had cord around it's protruding arm and also around it's neck! Next thing we knew there was about 8 members of staff in the delivery room, alarms and pagers going on and the curtain was flung back, door was wide open with another 4/5 people waiting outside the room.
Girlfriend was whisked off to the theater where she was placed under general anesthetic, I wasn't allowed in so had to nervously sit and weight, 15 minutes passed, which felt like an hour and someone came to tell me I was a Daddy to a little girl, 10 minutes later I had my little girl in my arms. Another hour passed till my girlfriend was brought out of theater in a lot of pain and given lots of morphine and other lovely drugs to reduce the pain. After about another half hour or so while she became I bit more aware of where she was and reassured all was ok she finally got to hold her little girl.
We are now all home and it wasn't till after we had seen all the specialists coming to check on us in the ward and finally being discharged, that when we sat down at home and read the hospital notes we realized why everything happened in a flash like it did. Appears baby and mum were classed as a CS1 which equates to imminent danger of life to mum or baby unless action was taken.
I know recently the NHS takes a bashing over problems it has, but me and my girlfriend couldn't say thank you enough to every single person that looked after us and was there when we needed them. Without them we might not have our little bundle of joy. I will honestly say I have never been so scared and so happy in one day than I was on Saturday 2nd February.
I have put some pictures up here if anyone wants to see my little trouble maker http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=5360793#post5360793
