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Posted: 24 August 2007 at 2:12pm | IP Logged

Hey ladies

I got a very excited phone call yesterday...sharons daughters waters went yesterday just before lunch.  The mw pitched up and said she couldnt go into hozzie until she was 4cm...which is fair enough.  Needless to say 24 hours on...her daughter is still at home..not gone into hospital..and her waters have deffo gone completely..her forewaters went first..and all last night and today her hind waters have been dribbling away (bless her shes hating it, says she hates wetting herself lol..weve been telling her shes not wetting herself but shes not having it lol).

Her mw is popping in every 6 hours...and sharon is fast losing the plot..understatement...there is nothing in her house she hasnt cleaned..and shes been out doing all the garden this morning trying to keep busy and she hasnt slept a wink.

Her daughter doesnt live at home and has her own flat...now the bit im curious about.

I know its been a while for me (4 years lol), but when I had both my girls..I phoned the hozzie when my waters went..and was told to be up there within the hour to reduce the risk of infection etc....so how come after 24 hours is this lass still not up the hozzie?  Have things changed that much..she is dilating only got to 3cm so far, bless her...but i thought you had to be in (unless having a homebirth and got mws in attendance) more or less asap.

Posted: 24 August 2007 at 2:29pm | IP Logged

I thought the same Steph.. When my waters went with Taylor, i was told to go straight in too...

That was 5 years ago... my waters went at the hospital with Sophie and it was a home birth with Jamie, so it could have changed.

Good luck to Sharons daughter.. sounds like its gonna be a LOOOONNNGGGG labour, bless her!!

Posted: 24 August 2007 at 2:54pm | IP Logged

sharons just rung...bless her...her daughter, well she went to try and have a snooze..on lots of towels lol...and woke up after half hour gripped by the worst pain in the world apparently, big strong nasty ouchy contractions..every 20 mins so far.  So shes going to go up the hozzie now cos it hurts..even though her mw has told her to wait til they are 5 mins apart..needless to say this lass told her mw where she could stick her 5 mins apart lol....wouldve loved to have been a fly on the wall for that one lol.

Sharon is going to meet her up there..so at least the lass has enough time to get up to the hozzie (lives half hour away) if its every 20mins..wouldnt like to leave it to every 5 mins..couldve been a lay-by delivery lol.

Im hoping that it wont be that much longer for her..she says it hurts..and weve said..we know..its got to..but soon be over...she has said shell never be doing this again..so it must be a bit ouchy if that phrase is coming out already lol.

Posted: 24 August 2007 at 3:03pm | IP Logged

I'm surprised she's not been told to come in yet. When my waters broke with Cameron it was 7am on the Wednesday morn. I rang dh - who had to travel 3 hours to get back from work - then the hospital. I was 37+ wks. I was under care of the community midwives, and hoping to stay at home as long as poss (if not until Cameron came!), but because I wasn't 38 weeks, they told me to come in.

I had horrendous backache all that day, though they put me on a ward as they weren't sure if I was in labour??? I was still leaking my waters (sorry - tmi!) regularly. I walked the floor of the ward all night, and then in morning they said yes I was in labour. When consultant came round he said I could let things go as they were (slowly) or go and have a drip to speed everything up. I opted for the drip as I just wanted to get things moving. There were no delivery rooms free all day (Forth Park in Kirkcaldy notoriously short of care for the whole of Fife!) I eventually got taken down at 6pm Thursday! Cameron was born at 00.01 on Friday morning. The wee soul ended up being pumped with anti-biotics for about a week, had numerous blood tests, had a splint on his arm where anti-bios were injected, and we had to stay in hospital for 8 days - the reason being....my waters had broken more than 24 hours before he was born, so he MAY have an infection. It turned out he didnt. I was furious, as I had gone straight into hospital when my waters broke, but as they were short of rooms and messed about deciding whether I was in labour or not - me and Cameron had a long stay in hospital, upsetting experience in labour (another story!!) and Cameron had a lot of distress caused for no good reason.

Really hope something happens soon for her, but I'd definitely be ringing up the hospital if nothing changes.

xxx Just read your post, Steph! Got fingers x'd for a relatively easy time for her.

Posted: 24 August 2007 at 4:14pm | IP Logged

my waters broke at home with both of mine and was told to come to hospital straight away. i cant understand why they have put her baby at risk.

anyway i hope shes not in to much pain as i write this and her baby is ok.

xxxx