Labour Room Drama 243

The Pain.........

Hello Stella, here goes my Labour Room Drama.Please hide my email.


I had been married for a little over 8months and was anxiously waiting for the day I will be pregnant,finally the day came to the glory of God.

I kept on waiting for all the morning sickness everyone talked about to start happening to me but it never came. The pregnancy was such a smooth and stress-free one. I glowed!


8days to my EDD(at about 5am)my membrane ruptured, after a very serious tumble in the hay the previous night *hehehehehhee*


I felt the urge to wee and got up from the bed, while at it, the "wee" wouldn't stop flowing , I was like ah"which kind urine is this that won't stop coming out naa" ..it took a while for me to realize that my water had broken.

Chimuoooo


I quickly got up from the Water Cistern and dashed into the bedroom, wore a pad and dressed up, woke hubby up and just muttered "Hospital, Hospital " (tension and fear had set in) he quickly dressed up and grabbed my Hospital essentials and off we went.


Immediately we got to the Hospital, I didn't even wait for hubby to park the car well, I jumped down from the car, grabbed my bag and headed to the Labour Room(no contractions yet).


I met the Dr on duty and he asked me a few questions (when water broke etc) and then asked me to change into the hospital gown and lie down. I did and after a while, I started feeling small small pains similar to menstrual cramps.Meanwhile I met another lady that was writhing in pain when I came in and I'm like, "hey God, is this what I will have to pass through "


I lay on the bed next to hers and kept on telling her to hang in there and be strong.After a while, my own started building up and the Dr came and checked me and told me I was doing well and left.


My people, from there onwards,I knew what pain was..the contractions hit me back to back and at a point, I had to hold onto the bed railings to keep from falling off the bed. I felt the urge to wee and beckoned on the Midwife, she brought one container and the wee refused to flow oh, I was confused.She now said, "I know what to do"...and then brought one pipe, inserted into my V and urine nearly filled up the container oh. Lol


I was a first timer so they all felt It was going to take a longer time before baby comes out, and as such, they didn't really pay much attention to me. They concentrated more on the other lady(who had given birth at this time, but had a retained placenta)


As the contractions were hitting me back to back, I started feeling the urge to push and had to beckon on them to come oh, A midwife quickly came and checked me and said I should push whenever she tells me to. I pushed on the first prompting and she said "Nne,I didn't feel this your push oh" I'm like "God, "this thing I used my whole strength to push, this woman is saying she didn't feel it,I'm finished today be that "


Then came another contraction and God gave me strength I didn't know I could muster and with that, I pushed as though my life depended on it and out came the baby at about 8am.I couldn't believe I had actually pushed the baby out, I was in awe!


All these happened within a space of 3hours..God really came through for me. But the midwife didn't give me an episiotomy, I don't know why she didn't, the baby gave me his own customised episiotomy that took a long time to suture and boy!did I see stars? The pain was something else and the very mean Doctor didn't even give me anything to numb the area, he just went about his business like he was sewing a cloth. I writhed in pain and all he could say was "Madam, stay still,I'm just helping you oh, you had a big tear "

I just somehow managed to remove my mind from there and kept on looking at my baby where he was being cleaned up and bore every needle prick till he was done.


The lady with the retained placenta later had it removed with the aid of some instruments and they had to transfuse her cos she lost a great deal of blood.We are very good friends till today.


I'm on a second missionary journey and I pray for a fast labour and delivery as well, without that tear sha,Lol.I pray God will do it for me and every other expectant mother in Jesus Name Amen.

*Congrats oh,the big tear doesnt stop anyone from what i have read here....LOL