The birth ...Part 1

i wake up in the middle of the night ... I feel funny ... what time is it?
3.54am
..mmm shall i go to the loo, gosh i feel really funny..
this could not be it, could it???

This is how it began, i just woke up in the middle of the night with a funny tingling sensation in my tummy... it was a forgotten feeling, like when i used to get my period ( 9 months ago) ... I went to sleep in the spare bedroom, did not want to bother Richard, after all it was the weekend and he sleeps in at the weekend...

At 7.00am i went to the loo again and it felt funny, like i was going without really wanting to go
( yes my water broke...)
and at 9.00 am i was texting Francesca telling her that maybe it was not ideal for her to come over for lunch... I might be having a baby ...
at 9.30 i woke Richard up, just in case
at 10.00 am it was clear i was having contractions...
we called the hospital and they told us to go in as my water broke, even if the contractions were not close enough to each other...
Got a taxi, quite painful, and this is what i looked like in the hospital:

 Please let me in was the only thing i could think of....

Trying to sleep and Richard arguing that i was squashing the baby...

... We did get in at about 11.00 am, but after a quick visit where they established the baby was fine and gave me a sweep (No need to elaborate on this) they sent me home...

At home we alternated between baths, paracetamols, Stargate SG-1 as pain relief methods, but it was increasingly clear hell was near, the pain was excruciating and i literally could not see more than 10 cm ahead of my nose...

By 6 pm i could not take it anymore and forced Richard to go, again to the hospital, and i parked myself in the waiting area ... got in at 7pm and after another horrible visit (where i vomited my heart out) they declared the baby had moved and now its back was facing my back, hence the terrible pain, the non dilation (contraction were still too far apart and too short), and the horrible pain...
I demanded pain relief, they refused, i demanded it again
they gave me pethidine...
Finally after almost a full day i could see again, they parked me in a bed and let me spend the night...
I sent Richard home to sleep..
how did i look???