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Proto, your story sounds like my second birth story .. easy and fun. :)
Only I had to stay in hospital for 5 days. But it is good as I had all the luxury as if I was in a 4 star hotel.
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^ whoa, where was your hospital?
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I had doulas for both my pregnancies and deliveries (alongside my ob-gyn of course). It was a good expereince. Prototype, where did u deliver, in Pakistan?
^ whoa, where was your hospital?
Vienna ..
I had to stay 5 days coz u have to do some manditory exams of the baby and if the weight falls under 15% (I guess) and doesnt rise, u have to stay till the docs give a go.
It wasnt so bad, but the last day I really wanted to go home.
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Automne77 We pray it goes even easier for you InshaAllah.
SaadiaB: I wonder if subsequent deliveries are comparitively easier?
Eastern11-it was in Lahore.
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Prototype- mash'allah, Great to read your positive experience :-)
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Proto - thats awesome masha'allah. may Allah bless us all with easy labors :)
why am I here typing this less than a week after delivering... I'm soo sleepy and exhausted but I know Jr. will wake up in another couple of mins for his second round of food....
I was due June 20, and out shopping late the night before becoz there were no indications that I would have the baby on time.... and after trying everything to get things rolling I gave up and just decided to let this baby come when he decides.
At 4 am on the due date/sunday I started getting contractions, they were timeable but then they would stop and not pick up for some time.... so I slept for 4 hours or so and then went to the restroom and saw a bloody discharge..... called the doctor they told me to come in for an assessment, went and was told that I am 1 cm dilated and that I should wait for the contractions to get stronger and more timeable....I asked the doctor if I could go around town and shopping and he said yeah but don't overdo it.... so off we went...spent the whole day walking and getting last minute things and by night the contractions had picked up, I was in a lot of pain... so went to the hospital again and this time the gave me morphine and gravol so I could go to sleep. I was able to sleep for abt 4-6 hours....
Woke up monday morning at 5 am with strong contractions, I walked around the apt, sat in different positions to ease the pain of contractions...they were now 4 mins apart lasting for 30-45 seconds each. Hubby and I went to the hospital again.... this time they told me that I was 3 cm dilated and that the baby was in a position where he was facing my hip... (he should've been facing down) .... so they get me to a room and till 1pm nothing had happened... doctor decides to administer a small dosage of pitocin to move things along and I say yes..... now the contractions get even more stronger...and my birth plan was no epidural so I am either on the birthing ball... walking or against my hubby bearing the contractions.... doctor comes in again and checks...not much progression so they decide to up the dosage to get stronger contractions... by 7 pm I am only 6 cm dilated and have now taken laughing gas....and fentanoyl... but neither is helping anymore ..the good news was that the baby is facing down.... finally I give in and at 8.20 I get the epidural at 7 cm dilation.... I don't feel the pain anymore and the contractions are getting stronger, I get abt 2 hours of sleep and by 1.30 am tuesday morning I am 10 cm dilated.... and the doctor now says time to push and get this show on the road...so I start pushing...everything is going well... when they tell me to stop....baby's heart rate is dropping massively and he has turned completely meaning he is facing up......a surgeon comes in and tells me that I am gonna be taken to the OR and they are gonna try and use forceps to flip the baby and have me push....if that works out if not ...they are going to do a c-section... by now it is over 24 hours... I consent ...and am taken to the OR.... and then they use the forceps and doctor seems pleased baby has flipped....once again I am asked to push I push for abt 20 mins and the baby is out...at 4am tuesday morn... they cut me and I tore as well.... baby is out but he got water into his lungs and there is mucus in him... I get to see him for just a min becoz they rush him to the nursery....
Alhamdulillah he was 8+ lbs...and healthy....
After 48 hours of early and active labor combined I have my baby. I am just grateful that I had a natural birth as opposed to a C-section and that my baby is healthy, and complete..... It was not easy but Allah somehow pulls us through.
btw : I did have a doula with me at delivery time ....and she was an amazing source of support for both me and my husband.... definitely would recommend a doula that you connect with
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wow thanks for sharing your amazing experience. you're so brave mashallah you had a long labour but thank goodness your doctors were so supportive and helped flip the baby. i reckon in london they would have bullied any mother into having a c-section after 24 hours.
did you hire a doula or did the hospital give you one? did you know her before the labour?
many congratulations.
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though my due date is far away but i still hope i had a smooth delivery like prototype........
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^ inshallah.
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thnkx iyla
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I was due on 13th of August and I heard that the first baby can come late so I wasn't prepared for any emergency but Allah knows what's better for us. On the morning of 6th of August (around 7:00 am) I woke up with a strange feeling and then I found that the water bag was broken, it was a shock for me, I rushed to the wash room and after a few minutes I was on way to the hospital. I wasn't feeling any pain, not even contractions *(that's the thing for me to get worried about).
Doctor checked me, and informed that there is a dramatic change in the baby's heart rate and this indicates that the baby is not getting enough oxygen so they have to bring the baby out via c-section, she told me that the cord can wrap around the baby's neck and cut off oxygen supply, now they can't put the baby's life on risk by inducing labor.
I got extremely upset because my pregnancy was going very much smooth, I didn't have any complications and was expecting a 'natural birth' I used to be very much afraid of operations, anesthesia thingi. Also I was concerned about my baby's health and life. I was immediately sent to the operation theater and around 10:30 am my baby girl was born, I was given General anesthesia. My doctor told me later that when they brought the baby out they found that the cord was wrapped around her neck and it was so tight that she couldn't even breath.
By the grace of Allah I am having an adorable healthy baby girl now MashAllah. I thank Allah for blessing her health and giving me courage at that time after hearing about the unplanned Cesarean section.
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oooooh MashAllah MashAllah Mashallah May allah swt bless u and ur daughter with a happy n prosperous life Inshallah Ameen
Many many congratz elegance 
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Ameeeeeeen Thanks alot sweetu and also thanks for the guidance and help you have been giving me during my preg 
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Proto- Lucky you mashAllah! :)
Congratulations everyone on your bundle of joys! May Allah bless them all...
Red Ruby- I am scared to read and hear about different birth stories in the UK.
My cousin recently had a baby boy and she had a horrible experience...She had strong contractions for 2 days and they admitted her the 3rd day when she was 4cm!! They dont offer any epidural unless you are 5-6 cm dilated, no matter if you beg for it. Midwives dont believe in episiotomy, so she tore badly and ended up wth a lot of stitches since she had a 9 lb baby. She told me how there are these rules that midwives go by, they only check you every 4 hours for dilation, and dont listen to you even if you tell them that you feel ready to push. She was fully dilated but they wont let her push for another hour or so...all this sounded really freaky to me!
Another friend of mine, whose a doctor herself, had a really bad experience with her first baby. She had to deal with serious health issues after what had happened at the delivery.
These and many others convinced me that I wasnt going to have my baby in UK and travelled late in the 8th month of pregnancy to Canada and I am glad I did. I dealth with a midwife while I was here, and didn't feel like I was thoroughly taken care of. I had UTI during my pregnancy and she wouldn't prescribe me anything saying that everything was normal. Just by googling it, I knew what it was. I dealth with it for 5 months until I had severe kidney pain and then I was put on antibiotics. Total negligence on their partmto delay it to that point!
Here is my birth story from 10 months ago;
This was my first pregnancy and I was told at my 25 week scan that I was having a girl. I started dreading delivery the day I found out I was pregnant. My mom had really difficult deliveries and I thought I was going to be no different.
I was told that girls come later than the due date, so I was expecting that. I travelled to Canada when i was 36 weeks. My friends threw me a pink baby shower at 38 weeks and still no contractions nothing, not even brixton hicks!
Two days down, I was out grocery shopping and I started feeling a lot of pressure that would get worse If I'd walk. That only lasted an hour, maybe. The next morning, the mucous plug went of. My mom urged me to go to the hospital. I was feeling completely normal but I listened to her and got checked for contractions, dilation, baby's heartbeat, etc. but nothing looked like labour to them, so I was sent home.
Two days later, real contractions started and they were 1 hour apart. They were quite bearable that I went through the day just fine. I was glad they werent picking up because my husband was flying down 2 days later and I wanted him there. The same night, around 2ish, the contractions started coming closer, about 7 mins apart. I called up my husband and he couldn't beleive it. He's like, Don't worry, it wont happen now, it's only the 39th week lol. But I knew it was time. I read all the surahs and went into the hospital around 3 am. The contractions weirdly went 15-20 minutes apart then. The nurse checked me and luckily it wasnt busy so I wasnt sent home. They were bearable enough that I went to sleep for a couple of hours. A nurse checked me again at 7 and I was unbeleivably already 3 cm dilated! To my surprise, I was admitted to the delivery room.
From 7am- 12pm, the contractions didnt really pick up and I just waited and waited for something to happen. The doctor broke my water then and I was given a dose of picotin. I asked for an epidural around the same time. It was smooth sailing from then on except for one little glitch. I slept through the rest of the time, got up around 5, feeling every single contraction on my left side, apparently the epidural came off while I was switching sides. It was hell and went on for 5-10 minutes, my mom felt that I was ready to push and asked the nurse to check and ready I was! At 5:36, the nurse goes, " Here comes your little princesssss...Oh wait, it's a boy!" lol...I sat there laughing because we bought everything pink from head to toe and all the baby shower gifts were for a girl...
I hardly got any stitches and I just couldnt beleive I was done so smoothly Alhumdolillah. My only regret is that my husband couldnt make it, and oh, he thought I was joking that we had a baby boy and not a girl..lol, He'd always wanted a girl cuz they are all brothers, oh well! next time! :P
At the end of it all, the love that you feel for your baby is just over whelming and makes you forget everything else! =)
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Alishaht and Elegance congratulations to both of you !
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alishat, i didn't even know you had a baby! congratulations!! lucky girl with your birth story! you know you could sue person who told you it was a girl :p for that reason a lot of places are hesitant to say anything these days.
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Alishasht, was it in UK or Canada where they predicted the gender wrong?
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congrtas alishat and elegance.......... may GOD bless you n the little ones..... :)