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slightly bizarre birth (though it all ends up in hospital)
My friend was expecting her second baby this coming weekend and was slightly
paniced as 5th November is bonfire night in the UK and most towns have huge fireworks displays and whole areas of town are just completely impassable by car and they live right next to the common where it will be happening, so we were all crossing our fingers it would happen before then, though her first had been induced at 42+3 days late. Yesterday morning I saw her husband and daughter at playgroup and he said she had been contracting, so he'd stayed off work and was taking Erin out of her way, but everything had stopped and she'd been in touch with the hospital and they'd not been all that helpful, basically didn't want her to go in, didn't want even to check her reassure her or anything. At 6.30ish I get a call, it's our baby sitter, she can't sit for us as she has to go and sit for Erin. I later find out that the friend had called the sitter and hour or so earlier going help my contractions are every 3 minutes and I don't know what to do and she had very sensibly told her to call the hospital and don't let them discourage you, tell them you are going in and you are having a baby whether they have space or not. I chased round trying to find another sitter as we really needed to go to what we had comitted to, this sitter had been arranged for over a month, but no joy, so we ended up taking Nathanael round to the families house where he played very happily with Erin and helped put her to bed (she is 6 months younger than him). Then the husband's parents show up, they had taken an alternative route because of road works and it had turned out to be quicker, so the sitter is a bit stuck, she has to leave, but she has Nathanael with her, so she decides to find us and get out keys, but she is confused as to where we are, so she goes to where she thinks we are and finds another friend and shares all the news, apparently her husband had seen the mum to be and the doctors surgery at 5pm where she was being told nothing was happening, (working the timings out it would have not been much later when she phoned the other friend in a panic). Fortunately the person she sees knows where we are, as we are with the people she is sitting for at a different location, so the sitter heads across town and comes into the building, looking rather stressed and DH and I panic, I'm not sure what we thought, whether it was Nathanael, Erin, or the mum-to-be who was in trouble, thankfully she only wanted our housekeys! We found out this morning that she had a little boy at 9.50, so only about 3hrs after she got to the hospital, the boy is fine, which is a big relief as Erin had a heart defect that was only discovered after her birth, so I think they were nervous, though a thorough heart scan had been done at about 16 weeks. What amazes me is quite how many people were aware things were happening and were partially involved at any stage, most of the time, you realise that the person hasn't been at an event and wonder if they are having the baby and the next day you find out. What shocks me is how bad things seem to be at our local hospital at the moment, the stories like this of not being able to go in are becoming very frequent, the week before Ada was born, someone gave birth in the corridor, not because there was no time but because there wasn't space, or staff. When I had Ada, I was told that once they had given me prostaglandin they had to continue as it was stressful for the baby, yet when the crunch came they left me in limbo for 8-10hrs with short sharp irritability, yet before they had done it they told me they would do something after 6hrs (and had I been aware that they wouldn't I would have refused the dose, it took a lot of persuading for me to accept it anyway), whether that was give me an epidural as things were happening, or give me another dose, or start pitocin, which they did none of, but also refused to give me my regular medication! Hopefully I'll get to see the new little baby tomorrow, there are so many around me at the moment I am getting really broody, even though Ada is not yet 5 months. Nathanael was really sweet earlier, he said "see Erin", and I told him he couldn't as Erin's mummy had had a baby and then he said "see Erin's baby", awwwww. I want to stomp my feet a bit more, the situation at my local hospital is really bugging me, I'm considering joining the "maternity services liason committee" it's got all kind of people on it from all different areas, different types of doctors, also midwives, health visitors, breastfeeding bods and a small number of mums apparently they want more, but I wonder if I will just end up getting even more frustrated! Cheers Anne |
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