Labour Room Drama 186

Drama with pain

Dear Stella,
Hope good. Let me send my Labour Room Experience cos I think there was no drama, but keep me anonymous.


I went to the labour room alone as my families were far away. I got to the labour room at 9am Sunday morning, what I felt could be described as menstrual cramp at that moment. I lay on the bed for an examination, I was just 1cm dilated and the nurse wanted to be sure if it is false labour before sending me home.



At 11am, the pain has become severe that I started crying , I was placed on drip and given IV pain relief, at 1pm I was given a stronger pain relief and asked to go outside for a walk if there will be dilation, they couldn't send me home because of the severe pain but I wasn't dilated apart from the 1cm . At 6pm they finally concluded that I will stay over because of the pains. I walked from that 1pm till 6pm and got tired .



At 12 midnight, the pains became so much that I started shouting for an epidural as other pain reliefs didn't work anymore, but I was told Epidural can only be administered only if I was about 6cm dilated.


At 1am, the doctor came to give me options to help me dilate, he gave me 3 options with big medical grammar that I can't remember now, he chose one of the methods for me .... two little balloons were inflated and pushed inside me, after an hour I coughed and the two balloons flew out and I quickly called the nurse, when she came and checked I was 6cm dilated and I SCREAMED ..EEPPIIDDURRAL... 

So I was given the epidural on my spine, and I was so relieved, at 5am Monday morning, Epidural has stopped working and I didn't move from 6cm... I was given another shot and immediately the pains disappeared, at 10am I told them to raise my bed to a sitting position because they had made me lie down in the night without getting up, when they sat me down immediately my water broke and I got to 10cm .



Then the gynecologist came in for the delivery, I could no longer feel any contraction because of the epidural but the contraction was monitored on a computer as the have fixed so many things on my body for monitoring.

At every contraction I push with all my strength, I pushed for about 20 minutes before they saw the baby's head, immediately they saw the baby's head I was cut ... I saw them cut my 'V' but felt no pain, at the next push after the cut the baby jumped out and was crying , he was immediately cleaned and wrapped while they were sewing me back like a cloth.. Baby arrived at past 10 Monday Morning.



The baby was wrapped and kept on my chest and he kept looking at me like, " So you are my mum" .


I spent extra two hours in the labour room for monitoring while sipping cold water and smiling for " a mission accomplished"

I left the labour room wheeling my baby myself.

That is my story.

*Did you say there was no drama?My dear enough drama.

Congratulations.