How were YOU born?

I was born 4 days late, induced because my mum had high BP, ventouse failed so yanked out with forceps.  My mum lost a lot of blood, passed out and had 2 blood transfusions.  She was very poorly for a few days.  I was bottle fed during this time.  Mum tried to BF me after that, but I wasn't having any of it.  When she had my sister, it was natural 2 hour labour, born 30mins after arriving at hospital. 

Weirdly, Jack was induced, born 5 days late, ventouse failed, forceps delivery.  But he was the poorly one afterwards, not me.

My Mum was induced with me due to high BP. I was born 10 days early by my due date but according to my Dad I was two days early....he wanted me to be born on 7/7/77 but instead it was the 5/7/77. I suffered jaundice and had to go under the lights and stayed in hospital for about 10 days.

Oh and my Dad was still on the train when I was born as the induction worked really quickly apparently. I was baby #3 though.

I was breastfed for about a month.

I have no idea, Mum and Dad are no longer around to find out either.

I don't know what I weighed either.

(Dad did always say I was found under a gooseberry bush though, maybe he wasn't fibbing! )

I was born around my due date weighing 4lb 11 oz - The nurse said she was going to cut my mum and as she turned to get the instruments I shot out and she had to catch me

I was on time, but my mum was told to expect very early baby and was put on bedrest for 2 months before my birth!

She doesn't seem to have been aware of what was going on, her labour started but she says they were stopping and re-starting in using injections, for 3 days .

In the end she was given a general anaesthetic and I was pulled out with forceps. When she woke up a wman from our village, who was visiting someone in the hospital, was at her bedside. She told her she had a lovely baby girl, and my mam told her she hadn't seen her (me) yet. The woman had sneaked to nursery to have a peek at me. My dad was present at birth although he had to fight his corner to be allowed in.

I was breastfed for about 5 months I think.

I was born around my due date but can't remember whether it was a day late or early. Mum's waters started trickling and so she was advised to go in. She thinks she was put on a drip to speed up/get labour going. After about 20 hours she was still there and when the same consultant that had first been looking after her came back on shift and found her still there apparently there were tense words exchanged with the other staff. At that point they realised her waters hadn't actually broken (am guessing it was probably her hindwaters) so they broke them but I have got into a position where I was presenting my forehead rather than crown so she was then rushed to theatre for an emergency CS under GA. After she had me she also had a reaction to the antibiotics they gave her (and so discovered that she is allergic to penecillin!). I was her first, I think my brother's delivery was a lot more straight forward and he was a VBAC.

My labour wasn't dissimilar to hers in some ways: a very long labour, hindwaters went but hand my full waters broken for me (but much earlier on), I had the synctocin drip and then just escapes a CS with K as she was delivered in theatre with forceps. Mum phoned into the labour ward when she had no news from me (due to long labour) and while I was suitably annoyed at the time at her fussing I suspect her experiences made her worry more for me when it was taking so long.

I was born just as my mum made it by ambulance to the Rosie hospital in Cambridge.

I was born at 29 weeks weighing a whopping 4lb-very good for the weeks,apparently i looked like a yellow skinned rabbit lol.

I was born 4 weeks early and i weighed 5lbs 6oz. I was actually born in the ambulance outside the hospital as my mum was adamant that she didn't think it was real labour!!! My mum had no pain relief whatsover and it was a quick labour considering i was her first baby.

In those days apparently, mums were expected to stay in hospital for 4 days after giving birth, however my mum discharged herself after 24 hours as we were both perfectly healthy and breast feeding had been successfully established.

I was born very late, over 2 weeks apparently. My Mum had a horrific labour lasting over 36 hours ending in me being yanked out by forceps in an operating theatre on the 27th Dec. She went into labour on Christmas day.

It was the complete opposite of my labour as Samson arrived 2.5 weeks early and it was a very straight forward labour/birth.

What a great thread!

I was a lateral breech so my Mum went in to maternity hosital to have me turned at about 38 weeks - it worked but as she waited to get the bus home (she didn't drive at that point) she had a funny turn and almost fainted at the bus stop - only to be rescued by a passing fire engine full of gorgeous firemen...

I was then a week late...My Dad was not amused....my Brother had been a week early and he was 'banking' on me being on time....as he was an accountant and was assured a tax rebate if I was born before the end of the tax year - I arrived 4 days after it and he has never let me forget it and tells everyone that I have been a very 'dear' as in costly, daughter ever since....

Mum had a GP delivery and stayed in the maternity hospital for a week (mostly to get some peace as my Brother was 3 at the time and a tad wild to say the least) and on the last night the midwives insisted Mum & Dad went out for a meal together while they looked after me on the ward, then Mum went back, stayed one last night and we went home the next day .....now that is what I call service!!

 I was a straightforward birth and I was very lucky to have 2 very straightforward births myself..although Mum had a horrific 26hr labour with my older Brother and my Sister in Law had an almost exact same labour and delivery with my Nephew - who is my Brothers clone so maybe history does repeat itself...

J xxx

Mine was a pretty traumatic birth - my mum has always talked about it but still finds the memory quite upsetting.

I was overdue - at least two weeks, although in the aftermath they think it was probably closer to 3 weeks (my mum had quite irregular periods).  My mum had high blood pressure in the later stages of pregnancy and because she lived in a tiny village on the west coast of Scotland she was admitted to hospital near Glasgow for a few weeks prior to my birth.  As she showed no signs of going into labour she was eventually induced and things progressed reasonably but I got stuck and was a forceps delivery.

It turns out I was a big baby (11lb 3oz) and I suffered shoulder dystocia and as a result of brachial plexus injury I have an erb's palsy in my left arm.  Unfortunately the obstectrician who had overseen my mum's pregnancy was on leave the week I was born and the locum was a Nigerian who was a complete tit and refused to give her any pain relief saying that the women in his country managed without any so she could too!

I was whisked away after I was born and because my mum was a nurse she knew that meant there was a problem but no one would tell my parents what was happening for about an hour.  My dad saw me in the special care baby nursery and he said it was unfortunate that they had put me next to premature twins as I weighed more than the two of them combined and looked like a giant!

When the original obstetrician came back he wanted my parents to pursue a formal complaint as it turns out that the midwives had tried to get the locum to send mum for a c-section and he had basically told them to p*ss off but my parents were young (21) and couldn't face the prospect of it all.

So not great but my mum went on to have a straightforward delivery with my little sister which helped a bit.

Sarah

I was the first of four and was born on the day my mum was admitted to be induced. She was 10 days over and just as she waved my dad goodbye for the evening her waters broke and I was born a couple of hours later.  There was a dispute with the hospital as to what day I was actually born on - birth certificate says 12th October but all my medical records said 11th October for years (used to really confuse the school). I can't remember my excat weight but was around 8lbs 10. 

She had to stay in for 10 days but part of that was that I refused to breastfeed. 

Of the three further babies that she had she was induced with two of them, never had any pain relief for any of us and all were late and large for the time (over 8lbs) hence why I am expecting this baby to be late and large - already weighs around 7lbs and I have two weeks to go. (H's mum also had two large late babies - her's were 10lbs and 11lbs and both were also born 10 days overdue)

i was due 15/11 and was born ten days late on the 25/11, the day my mum was supposed to be induced. Her waters went on the 24/11 mid morning, it was an 18 hour labour, with pethidine which made her really sick and then G&A. i was born at 00:56 weighing 6lbs. Apparently she saw three shifts of midwives. my grandma stayed with her the whole time. My grandad drove them to the hospital, then went back to work, had his tea at home and then went straight back to the hospital and sat in the corridor for seven hours waiting for me to be born. After my mum, my grandma and grandad were the first people i met :)

my two younger sisters were both considerably bigger and apparently far more painful. Mum threw a full g&a canister across the room when in labour with M who was 8lbs 13oz and had to have the strongest epidural she could have with K who was 10lbs. she said K was the easiest to deliver because she couldn't feel a thing, although she couldnt feel whether she was pushing or not and she was threatened with ventouse before she finally managed to to push her out.

My mum was induced at 36 weeks I think due to bleeding and ended up with hyperstimulation of the uterus , epidural and forceps when I got distressed. I was just about 5 pounds I think and had severe jaundice but recovered well.

I have no idea!!!  I know I was late, born at 12.20am and a vaginal delivery.  According to my Dad I 'just popped out', but I'm sure my Mum's story would be slightly different!