My First Birth Story

It’s about time I shared my birth stories and the first is the most significant for any woman’s journey into motherhood. It sets the bar on what to expect in any future pregnancies you may have so here is my first birth story:

It was all very spontaneous. She came at 37 weeks + 6 days so she was a little earlier than expected but still perfect in every way.

It all started with some intense Braxton Hicks on Saturday 29th May 2021, which then led to the ‘bloody show’ on Sunday 30th’s morning. After this things seemed to calm down but the loss of mucus was consistent until the early morning on Tuesday 1st June where I started getting regular contractions and I wasn’t sure if my waters had broken…

I rang triage and they told me to come in at 3:30am where they checked us over and informed me that I was 3cm dilated with my waters still intact. After this I went back home to progress labour on within comfort and calmness, which worked because by 9:30pm the same day I was back in triage and told I was 6-7cm dilated!

From this point, I was sent to the delivery suite and made comfortable there with various different items available to me. I chose to sit on the birthing ball for most of it with some gas & air and my partner rubbing different aromatherapy oils on my back to help manage pain and ease any anxieties I had. We had Smooth radio playing in the background and mood lighting set so that I was kept as calm as possible throughout birth.

It was decided that once I arrived in the delivery suite that my next (and last!) check was going to be at 3:30am. Once this time came around the contractions were coming in closer and more intensely, but upon checking me the midwife could only say I was stuck at 6cm dilated… because of this it was offered that my waters were popped for me to speed things up and they weren’t lying about that happening!

After having my waters popped the ‘change’ occurred and according to my partner the noises were ‘inhuman. The urge to push crept up on me really intensely and within 56 minutes from being checked I gave birth and came away with 1 degree tears and 1 stitch, which hurt way more than the birth itself!

The song playing on the radio when she arrived was ‘Kiss From A Rose’ by SEAL, which was quite fitting for the moment!