By Katrina O'Brien
From typical delivery at domestic to unforeseen beginning within the outside to deliberate Caesareans, those touchingly own and humorous stories illustrate how the strategy of arrival is less significant than the affection the kid reveals while it eventually arrives.
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Eventually, the midwives put some gel on my cervix, which didn’t seem to help, and they also gave me some sort of injection. Soon, I became just so tired, stressed and distressed and it wasn’t much fun at all. I was an absolute physical wreck. Chris arrived—he had plenty of time to drive back— and after about 14 hours of labour I had an epidural. I was not into natural childbirth or anything like that. I was so tired and over it that it was just another procedure. But it went wrong. They poked and prodded for a long time before they Birth Stories Text 10/2/05 2:52 PM Page 33 COMPLETING THE JIGSAW 33 found a space and then they stuffed it up—it pierced the spinal cord and my spinal fluid leaked out.
And to our delight, we saw two little hearts beating at our first ultrasound. It was as if we’d won the lottery. Only two years earlier, I was trying to get used to the idea that I might never have children. And here I was, soon to have three children under three, Patrick and two babies, who we later found out were girls. We were ecstatic, but we were also concerned that having twins meant the pregnancy would be risky. And it Birth Stories Text 10/2/05 2:52 PM 46 Page 46 BIRTH STORIES wasn’t too long before I got quite bad morning sickness, which made it hard to cope with a little toddler.
And then I blacked out. I woke up crying after the operation with Darren and my obstetrician by my side. As I bawled uncontrollably, she stroked my hand and face and told me that she had delivered the baby but it had been very difficult to get her out. My uterus had clamped down like a rubber band, halfway up around the baby, so it was trapped in the top of my uterus. She told me she couldn’t pull her out of the normal Caesarean cut and was only moments away from doing a vertical Caesarean when she managed to get her out.