Well you asked for it, so here goes with my birth stories.....
My daughter was born six weeks premature by forceps after a long 20 hour labour. The last month of my pregnancy was very stressful as I had fallen from top to bottom of a rather long escalator, a week or so later I started haemorhaging (sp?) and was kept in until they were sure it had stopped, two weeks later I had a srom, so was taken back in, I was stil in hospital when I went into labour. My daughter weighed 5lbs 2 ozs
My eldest son was born a week early, with no pain relief, (no time for any
) and his was a straightforward normal birth. He weighed 7lbs 12 ozs. I did have to tell the midwife rather firmly more than once that yes, I did actually 'want to push' before she believed me and examined me, she then rushed to the other side of the room and pushed a buzzer, then it was chaos with midwives rushing around trying to get me to the delivery room in time
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My youngest son was born on the day the consultant said he would be, and this time I elected to have no pain relief much to the dismay of the student midwife and her mentor
everything was going fine, head delivered, no problem, then the student said rather loudly to her mentor that 'the baby is stuck' bless her. She did brilliantly, I only recieved a small tear (for which she apologised) and managed to keep me reasonably calm throughout. My poor son looked like he had been in a fight with Mike Tyson and had to spend his first 24 hours in scbu. He weighed 8lbs.
I have to say though, I am glad I didn't understand what a shoulder dystocia was or how dangerous it could be then, I would definately have panicked if I had.