Joshua

 I gave birth to my baby boy Joshua on 24th November 2010 (his due date) at 3:06pm weighting in at 5lb 12 1/2oz. My labour started on the Monday morning when I woke up, I was experiencing period like pains so I decided to go for a walk to see if I could help bring on labour. During the afternoon the pains disappeared. The same thing happened the following day so again I went for a walk and the pains got more and more uncomfortable. I was due to see the midwife for routine appointment that afternoon. My husband was due to head to London for work that evening but was taking me to the appointment, while at the midwifes I got a big contraction with literally took my breath away. The midwife timed it and counted how long it lasted, 3 minutes later I was having another, the midwife looked at my husband and said if I was you I would not be going to work if you want to see your child born, she said there was no way our baby was going to be over due!

We headed home a little nervous about what to expect. My husband had to head into work to drop something off, but headed straight back by which time my contractions where coming fast and strong, my neighbour and friend came and sat with me until my husband got back. My contractions eased a bit and I managed something to eat while watching I'm a celebrity get me out of here! My husband ran me a bath which I got into a few times to help with the pain, my pains throughout my labour stayed in my pelvic area not my belly. At 11pm I called the labour ward and they advised me have another bath and try to stay at home for as long as I could stand. At 3am I felt that I needed some help, so I called again and they told me to make our way in, we got to the hospital around 4am. Once in the delivery room, I was asked what pain relief I wanted, I explained that I did not want an epidural (as I am scared of needles!) they started me on gas and air, which fast became my best friend! Once the midwife checked me she confirmed that I was 4cm, which I was really pleased with as I had done that all by myself! My mum made her way down from London to be with us, she arrived at 7:30 and was there with us throughout. I managed to get some sleep, at 12noon the midwife came in to see how far along I was and confirmed I was 8 to 9 cm and that she was going to break my waters.
I had heard that this was really painful, my experience of this was just the opposite, it was fine and was not painful. The midwife explained that once she had broke the waters I would be able to start pushing. At around 1:30pm I started pushing, as I was pushing the midwife could see that Joshua was slightly back to back with me and was coming out at an angle, something they call LOL, however I was not laughing out loud at the time! The atmostphere in the room changed and the midwife said "Sam we need you to really push now and get the baby out" I gave everything I had and at 3:06pm he was delivered safe and sound.
After the birth I was seen by a surgeon to be stitched up I had quite a bad tare from Joshua coming out at an angle.
My labour was great, I actually enjoyed it. I took every contraction as it came, by telling myself that, that's one more done one more closer to meeting our baby. My pregnancy was brilliant too, after 7 long years of trying to get pregnant, we where both very excited. I suffer with Polysistic Ovarian Syndrome, I was diagnosed when I was 21, before I met my husband. We had spoken loads about trying for a family and although I have POS the Drs said it could happen naturally, however after years of trying nothing did. In November 2009 we when to see a specialist and I was given Clomid to take along with Provera to bring on a bleed (I could go two years with no bleed) I took the medication and we did our homework! On mothers day 2010 I did a test and we where 2 weeks pregnant!