MY BIRTH STORY by Emma

Waters broke friday 10am and felt extremely calm - cleaned the house, phoned dh and midwife and bounced on my birthing ball - trying to get things started. We went into hospital for a couple of hours to be checked = 1cm at 2pm, so went home, and got chicken and chips, and sat saying "oh my god this is really going to happen !!!" .

Labour started 8pm and the hospital wanted to keep me in over night to check against infection. So dh was sent home and I was put in a room on my own to progess!!!! So I did the whole tens machine thing till 5am, which proved to be brilliant. Then went up to labour ward 6am and was 4-5cm. Met the lovely midwife and her student - and got settled in as the pain was getting worse. Got on the gas and air and loved it, with dh doing tens and midwife rubbing base of back. Reached 8-9cm by lunch time.

All was going well...... .... then nothing progressed, so at 5pm they put in drip on to speed up contractions again........ by this time I was so exausted that I was falling asleep between very, very bad contractions and mooing in pain the rest of the time. dh was getting distressed to see me in so much pain. So we finally asked for an epidural at 8pm. But by then my white blood count had shot up, and Toby's heart rate shot up, so they couldn't give an epidural as we had an infection!!! ........

.So - emergancy c-section under general. Toby came out not breathing and was rushed off to special care for a few days, and all of us on antibiotics.

I came round from the general with Ben beside me - dh and my parents, and felt numb, nothing, as if someone had hit me over the head - and Ben could have been anyone's baby. They gave me a photo of Toby strapped up to all sorts of machines with pipes everywhere, and I didn't feel anything - just numb

It shocked me, as I had expected waves of emotion and joy and a time when dh and I would welcome our babies into the world together - see them being born. But just coming round and them saying 'these are your babies' was just not what I'd expected. 24hrs later as the general started to go - I realised they were really mine, and how wonderful they were - and the love just flowed (God - I sound like an old hippy!).

SO ............. they are here, they are safe and we are home, and dh is being so wonderful .......... and I can't stop crying with emotion and of course the 'twin mother special' - tiredness !!!

I WOULDN'T CHANGE IT FOR THE WORLD - THEY ARE JUST PERFECT !

LOTS OF LOVE TO YOU ALL,

love em x Mummy to Toby (6lb 12oz) and Benjamin (7lb 5oz) n-i twins born 27th March 2004

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