A Small Warning

While Simon and I are doing this to keep our friends/family/acquaintences in the know and so that we can remember the experience - we know that a great many people forget the insane emotions that go through them at a time like this. They remember joy, nervousness and excitement but tend to forget things like annoyance, anger and exhaustion. This is also a little bit of an experiment for us as well as (hopefully) a bit of reality for someone else out there who wants a bit of a real play-by-play of the emotional rollercoaster of childbirth and parenting. ...granted, I know that my experience is only one...but hey...still worth trying.

That said, not all of this blog is going to be happy and shiny. There will be some real, raw emotions here and we're going to express them pretty openly. We hope that this doesn't make anyone feel as if we're in any way unhappy about the birth of our son or that we're somehow not excited or don't love him. For us, this is the reality of things that people don't really talk about or express. I think that is extremely important to remember.

We may use foul language. ...you're warned.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Wednesday 11:46 am


Sandra's started on the nitrous, and seems to be enjoying it . . . though I'm a little worried that she'll go a bit overboard and feel ill. In the antenatal classes the reckoned that was the biggest issue with people using nitrous, and that misuse was the reason people had bad experiences.

She's also had a foetal scalp monitor put in to track the baby's heart rate - they use a doppler mike normally, same as the little ones that midwives use and you can get pretty easily, but if they need to keep monitoring they'll use a more permanent option that directly measures heart rate via a probe that attaches to the baby's head. Since they're inducing her they need to keep her monitored, and she's dilated enough that they can get at his head.

She's not dilating all that fast, but at least the contractions are strong and coming at a good rate (good is four or less strong contractions in ten minutes). Though they seem to be coming a bit fast now - six in ten, so they may need to change things . . .

Probably another exam some time soonish, then discuss with Susie.
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