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Indinana Fri 28-Aug-15 09:18:34

Poor girl, what an awful, traumatic experience for her. So pleased my DD went for an elective C-section, as she was told afterwards by the surgeon that a vaginal delivery would have been very difficult given the baby's position and she would almost certainly have ended up in theatre for a section anyway. And after how many long and painful hours?

And I'm so pleased your DD and DGD came through all the trauma safely! Big congratulations to all of you and lots of good wishes for your DD's speedy recovery. flowers for you and flowers for your DD xx

Katek Fri 28-Aug-15 08:50:41

Congratulations on your new dgd! Hope your daughter recovers quickly from what sounds like a dreadful delivery. My dd had similar experience as dgs was presenting shoulder first. She haemorrhaged and thought she was dying. Glad all has ended well and lucky you, two new little ones to love.

shysal Fri 28-Aug-15 08:46:51

flowers, Vampire and DD. Does DGD have a name yet?

glassortwo Fri 28-Aug-15 08:36:27

Congratulations vampire glad they are both safe and well. Your DD will need to recover from that dreadful delivery. flowers wine

Maggiemaybe Fri 28-Aug-15 08:28:38

What a traumatic experience for your poor DD and the little one. flowers for all of you and welcome to the world, baby girl. It won't always be as bad as this!

Lona Fri 28-Aug-15 08:22:28

Congratulations vampire flowers I hope mum and baby both feel better soon! Poor things. It's dreadful that lack of staff should be the cause of such a difficult birth.

hildajenniJ Fri 28-Aug-15 08:22:27

Congratulations vamp. Give your DD a hug from me. She has my sympathy, I was almost in the same condition with DS. He got stuck and had to be pulled out. They dislocated his shoulder in the process, and he was navy blue!! He needed several minutes of oxygen to come round. All was well though, he's 30 now. Hope that lovely little GD forgets the trauma soon, and grows up to have a sunny disposition.
flowersbrew to you all.

Nandalot Fri 28-Aug-15 08:12:39

So pleased that Mum and baby are both well now but what a dreadful experience for them both. I do hope that you will all be able to recover from it soon and enjoy what should be such a precious time.flowers

Jane10 Fri 28-Aug-15 08:11:45

Good news and bad vamp- wonderful that the little girl is here but your poor DD. I'm sure she'll need to recover from that awful delivery both physically and mentally. Meanwhile congratulations!

vampirequeen Fri 28-Aug-15 08:04:21

...has finally arrived. Unlike her cousin who came on the bathroom floor a couple of weeks ago, this little madam really fought to stay put. My poor DD was huge and her blood pressure was rising fast but the hospital insisted on her waiting until she was 14 days overdue. When they finally decided to help her things went from bad to worse. She endured 36 hours of agony before they finally got an epidural in at the third attempt. Then after another 5 hours they were both so exhausted the baby got stuck and they had to take DD to theatre so they could use forceps. My DD's insides are a mess and it took them ages to sort her out. The baby was 9lb 10oz.

I blame the hospital for this. IMO....and I know this is a mum's not a doctors opinion...they should have done a section when it become obvious DD was struggling. I appreciate there is a certain amount of pain when giving birth (been there, got the t shirt) but this was OTT. They kept telling her how short staffed they were and that they didn't have beds in the labour ward or staff for theatre. I think this lack of staff was the reason they didn't take her to theatre until they had no choice.

The upside is that DD and baby are safe. Baby is really bad tempered though. All she does is scowl grin. Obviously she's livid at being forced to come out grin