TTC5
June 8th, 2011, 06:41 AM
My due date came - 9th February 1999 - and Mum suggested I go for a walk to see if it helps get things started. Off I went and made it half way around the near by school oval and had to come home as I was getting a little bit of a tummy ache.
Got home and went to the toilet, told Mum I felt better after that :wink: had a bit of loose movement down there! Mum did not even give me the slightest hint that it could be a sign.
I was only 15 years of age and did not know any better!
So that day, I had a huge spurt of energy! Still, Mum never let on to me (I think she was so scared she did not want to admit it herself!).. I cleaned out her pantry and her her linen cupboard LOL Nesting really kicked in!!
That evening, went to bed and watched my favourite TV show, and on it a woman was giving birth. I only wished it were my turn and no word of a lie.. 2 seconds later I felt like I had wet myself!!!
I stood up and went and woke Mum up (it was around 10pm) and told her I think my waters have broken. Boy did she PANIC! She threw herself on the floor outside and had a ciggarette, all the while I am standing there asking her... So.. what do I do???? LOL!!!
I jumped in the shower and had a freshen up - no pains yet although just a slight tummy ache here and there. But really nothing for me to even worry about.
Rang my best friend (she was only 14 back then and still is, to this day my best friend!) and her Mum and her were going to meet us at the hospital. Tried to ring DD's biological father but his family took the phone off the hook. I was not fussed, as I knew this would be the case!
So off we went around 11.30pm and got to the hospital at midnight.
They did an internal and told me I was about 3-4cm dialated.
We headed to a labour room, the room was nice and dark with a little lamp on.. just Mum, my best friend and her Mum who was also a midwife. Every now and then a midwife came in to check on us.
I didn't even make a sound when contractions started about 3 hrs later.. so so weird!! So around 3.30am I was now 6cm and by 5.00am I was 10cm!
Pushing began... it was sooo hard and I think being so young and my body being so little I went in to shock as I still to this day do not remember feeling any pain?
6.36am the day I was to start my last year of highschool, at 15 years of age I became a mother. All my fears left me at that moment, as I held my whopping 9pd 12 oz baby, 53cm and over 50 internal stitches for me -ouch alright! And all without a touch of drugs!!!!
My best friend cut the cord :DD: and an hr later she went to school to tell the news!!! Given the hard time I went through during her pregnancy emotionally I think God had given me a birth relatively easy for a first time teenage mother to make up for all of that!!
Got home and went to the toilet, told Mum I felt better after that :wink: had a bit of loose movement down there! Mum did not even give me the slightest hint that it could be a sign.
I was only 15 years of age and did not know any better!
So that day, I had a huge spurt of energy! Still, Mum never let on to me (I think she was so scared she did not want to admit it herself!).. I cleaned out her pantry and her her linen cupboard LOL Nesting really kicked in!!
That evening, went to bed and watched my favourite TV show, and on it a woman was giving birth. I only wished it were my turn and no word of a lie.. 2 seconds later I felt like I had wet myself!!!
I stood up and went and woke Mum up (it was around 10pm) and told her I think my waters have broken. Boy did she PANIC! She threw herself on the floor outside and had a ciggarette, all the while I am standing there asking her... So.. what do I do???? LOL!!!
I jumped in the shower and had a freshen up - no pains yet although just a slight tummy ache here and there. But really nothing for me to even worry about.
Rang my best friend (she was only 14 back then and still is, to this day my best friend!) and her Mum and her were going to meet us at the hospital. Tried to ring DD's biological father but his family took the phone off the hook. I was not fussed, as I knew this would be the case!
So off we went around 11.30pm and got to the hospital at midnight.
They did an internal and told me I was about 3-4cm dialated.
We headed to a labour room, the room was nice and dark with a little lamp on.. just Mum, my best friend and her Mum who was also a midwife. Every now and then a midwife came in to check on us.
I didn't even make a sound when contractions started about 3 hrs later.. so so weird!! So around 3.30am I was now 6cm and by 5.00am I was 10cm!
Pushing began... it was sooo hard and I think being so young and my body being so little I went in to shock as I still to this day do not remember feeling any pain?
6.36am the day I was to start my last year of highschool, at 15 years of age I became a mother. All my fears left me at that moment, as I held my whopping 9pd 12 oz baby, 53cm and over 50 internal stitches for me -ouch alright! And all without a touch of drugs!!!!
My best friend cut the cord :DD: and an hr later she went to school to tell the news!!! Given the hard time I went through during her pregnancy emotionally I think God had given me a birth relatively easy for a first time teenage mother to make up for all of that!!