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Hi all, I had my aby boy in 2005 and i have also suffered 3 misscarrages!!I am only 21 years old but i try to think possitive and i love to hear about peoples birth stories....So here goes 1 July 2005!!I was 10 days over due and at 9am i arrived at hospital to be induced..At 10am i began with back ache and by 1am after walking around the hospital getting lots of funny looks as i stopped when i had contractions mostly in the canteen or corridoors!!1pm i wasput onto a monitor on the ward as my babys hear beat was irragular and i was at 5pm put into a private room still on the monitor...I was still getting regular contractions but had no pain relief as still on the monitor...At 6pm I was given some gas and air and i was 6cm dialated...I was wheeled in a wheel chair down to the labour ward and i was given pethidine....At 8pm i had my waters broken which was the strangest feeling in the world...at8.30 i was offered an epidural as my babys heart beat was dropping again..After the epidural i felt amazing i was singing along to my birthing cd of faithless and eating toast...but at 1am my banys heart took a very sudden drop and there ws a rush of panic in the room which filled with nurses and docters...I had to be cut from 8cm-10cm as it was not an emergency.. my baby was stuck in the birth canal with the cord around his neck and using vontoose he was born at 1.45am after only pushing for 20mins....I couldnt hold him strait away as he was not breathing and had to be resucitated by the docter but i was so exhausted i didnt realise what was happening but by 2am he was happily breast feeding and next month he turns 3 and i couldnt be prouder of him.... I loved giving birth..It was the hardest thing i have ever done but soooo amazing... so lets share our amazing stories... xx