Birth Story

Monday night after arriving home from work, we settled in like most nights of cooking dinnering and watching a little TV. It was while we where sitting down, that I wondered why Callum hadn’t moved all day and that got me thinking that I hadn’t felt him move for most of the weekend just gone. After talking about it with Matt we rang the local Hospital and asked if it was ok if we came in for a check up. They hooked me up to the baby vital machine which showed that Callum’s heartbeat was 156 then it would dropped down to 70. This was happing very 5 to 10 minutes. They faxed the Royal Women’s Hospital the print out and we where told to come in stright away. They also hooked us up to the baby vital machine and his heartbeat kept having these drops and highs. After being hooked up and watched, the doctor was called and she told us that his was in distress and that it was best for him to be born. A natural birth was out of the question due to the fetal distress.

At 3am I was taken into the op room and it took over 45 minutes and four trys to get the spinal block in. It’s an interesting feeling to not be able to move your legs, bum and chest very interesting. Matt was then called into the room and they started to open me up. Membranes ruptured at 4.05am which was clear liquor, then Callum was Born at 4.07am on Tuesday the 28th of October weighing 1.411 kilos. It was now found that the placenta was incomplete and that it weighed 460gms and that the umbillcal cord was thicker and longer then what it should have been and it was wraped around Callums body. Callum’s APGARS where 1 min = 4 and 5 min = 8 and his time to establish respiration was 2 minutes. I was then taken into recovery and Callum was taken up to the NICU. Matt stayed with him the whole time while they got him settled into the NICU. Matt then came to see me with the first photo of Callum taken :o) After having a sleep and a wash I was wheeled up and I got to see my baby boy. He is just so cute and has lots of fair blonde hair.

Kellie