MY BIRTH STORY - FULL OF SUSPENSE AND SURPRISES

On Sunday 18th July, I woke up from my sleep around 3:30am with a sharp pain. I went back to sleep again because I couldn’t feel the pain again. At 5:40, I went to the washroom to urinate only to find blood. I called my mum to see and she said “Lord I thank you” it’s labor. I was 40weeks gone by then so they were all looking forward to that labor set in. I decided to wait and go to the hospital later because I wanted to dilate like 5cm before going to the hospital.

I later left the hospital alone without my things and my mum. I was checked around 6pm and it was only 1cm dilation. “Only 1” I shouted. Before I left for the hospital, I decided that I would let my mum bring my bag after the VE. But when I found out that I had dilated only 1cm, I decided to go for the bag myself. We drove back home, went to eat and sleep. So around 4am that dawn(19th July), we left for the hospital. I was then checked again and I was 2cm. Eeiii dadaada nu 2cm? Boiii.
So they prepared my bed and everything. At 9am, another VE was done and I was 4cm away. At 1pm another VE was done and I was still 4cm. Hmmm…. I started walking around so I could dilate faster. They did another VE at 7pm and I was still 4cm… That was when I started crying. The doctor came and they told him I have repeated 4cm 3 times since morning. He then said they should monitor.

The nurse gave me an infusion. At 1am on the 20th July, they did another VE and I dilated 6cm. Then from there the correct pains started. Eeii I couldn’t sit, stand nor sleep on my bed. I was holding the infusion standing and walking around like a mad woman.
At 5am on that same 20th July, they took me to the labor ward. They checked and my cervix has fully opened. The Midwife even said my baby’s head is just here. And before then I was already feeling the edge to push.
Now it is left for me to push. Push! Push!! Push!!!… I have pushed all my strength out, the baby isn’t coming.

The midwives now said; Do any style you are comfortable in. You can squat or walk around. Anytime you feel like pushing, push wherever you are standing we will catch the baby. We tried all that but baby was still not coming. Later they initiated “tag of war”… They pick one of my old cloth, asked me to hold the end and they also held and other folded end. And asked me to pull the cloth anytime I feel the contractions. That also didn’t work. I have already spent 5 hours in pushing and still to no avail. Any doctor or midwife that comes in says they should take me to the theater for second course( CS).

The midwife delivering my baby also sees me to be pushing soo well. So she keeps on saying; she is pushing too oo but the baby isn’t coming.
Another doctor came in suggesting they use a vacuum to pull the baby out. But the midwives and the doctor there said the part of the baby’s head that has been out for all those hours will cause harm or something if they put the vacuum over there to pull the baby. So the doctor then asked one midwife to stand on the stir to the bed. And then asked me to push when I feel the contractions.

And also asked another midwife to give me an Episiotomy.
So we did this formation. I’m supposed to push harder, one midwife stands on the stir to the bed and pushes my stomach and the other midwife gives me an Episiotomy.
The doctor started hitting(in a form of massage) my stomach with his fingers and kept on asking me if I felt the contractions… So as soon as the contractions started coming, I began to push… Push!!!!!!! And the midwife on the stir to the bed was also pushing the baby from the top of my tummy…And the doctor shouted; give Epis …. na sh33ww…
And he continued saying, don’t stop pushing… There naaaa the baby’s head is out. And they pulled the baby out… come and see clapping..

Thank you @⁨Midwife Sally⁩ and @⁨Midwife Munira⁩… and all of you for making this journey a success. God bless you all… I wish the rest of the preg go’s safe delivery