My first baby - Carly Jo Moore.

Carly Jo Moore.

 

  my pregnancy with Carly wasn't brilliant, problems after problems, early scan because I didn't know how far gone I was I found out pretty early my first scan was at 8 weeks, got to my 12 week scan and was taken into another room the fluid behind her neck was bigger than it should be got talked through what the possibilities were down syndrome etc. it didn't bother me she's my child I don't care after extra chromosomes we got asked if we wanted to get rid of the baby Hell no Carly was due on the 18th of April 2012. me & my mum went for a early gender scan next to find out she was much a girl we went straight into town  to buy girlie bits I remember the first thing I brought a vest with a printing of dungarees straps on little trousers and a hat, we had brought pretty much everything but clothes at this point, pushchair, nursery furniture. I didn't tell ben about the scan. 20week scan did normal check ups she was on the small side and they mentioned something to do with her heart(scary) but Ben found out she was a girl! we already had Carly picked out I she was a girl then just to pick out her middle name, Jo - short for Joanna my sister who was born still. it fit perfectly Carly jo Moore <3 I had lots of scan with Carly to make sure her growth and everything was okay, the 19th of April I was given a sweep and was told I was 2/3cm dilate (ekk it all seemed real I could go into labour soon!) Carly didn't really move much in my belly but I just put that down to her being small. on the 23rd of April, I noticed there was no movement at all, phoned the hospital to be monitored I was 5 days late no sign of her coming, headed up to the hospital and was put on the machine, not longer after the lady looked at the readings  and sent me into another room, a scan room Cathy the lady was called, my fluid was low she told me that she weighed about 7lb  though wow no way my belly was only tiny. I was told not to leave the hospital and that I was being induced that day! I was so excited but nervous at the same time, I phoned ben but knowing he was at work, I phoned Diane (bens mum) to get ben to phone me asap, he called me back and his dad was coming to pick me up I needed to do my hospital bag!! very unprepared! went home and got a biscuit and did my bag and off we went I knew I was coming home with my baby girl! we went back and was taken into the labour ward. I was given a bed to sit on and we waited for the doctor. he checked to see how dilated I was and tried to pop my waters and failed. he put the pessary in and was told to walk around. we went up into the hospital café and shared a plate of chips which were horrible. I needed a wee before going anywhere else ben went to the toilet too. as I went for a wee I got a pain, I was waiting outside the toilets waiting for ben and the pains didn't go we walked back down to the labour ward and waited I got pains in my back and ben was rubbing it trying to make it ease the pain it got to 9:30pm ish ben had to leave the nurse asked him to go, I went for another wee and laid on the floor it was cold and it felt like it helped maybe it didn't but I laid there anywho, a midwife came into the room and asked if I was okay I said yes but the pressure was kicking in. bam they took me into another room and someone phoned ben he got there was as I was giving birth to carly, a lady got white gloves on and had a scalpel  in her hands I remember shouting 'what you doing' she was going to cut me, I told her I could push but it was too late she cut me back to front (TMI) and a couple of pushes later carly was born. she cried and was given to ben the midwife spent 2 hours stitching me up but I got to hold carly I wished her a happy birthday and told her I loved her they were the first thing I said to her.we sent everyone a text to say that carly born because we didn't tell the whole family.  I remember staring at her all night. she didn't cry once but all her clothes were too big. ben went home and said he'd come back after his driving lesson in the morning and everyone came they brought smaller clothes that fit better than new born. I came home that following day the luckiest mummy in the world.