BIRTH VLOG! *Raw & Emotional* Delivery of Our First Baby! (Labour, Induction, Epidural & Pushing)

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay it's go time baby's on his way um things have started happening in a big way over the last 48 48 hours really and the date is monday the 20th i keep looking i've got no idea what's going on 24th of january 2022 and on saturday oh god here's another contraction i'm gonna have to pause this vlog clip quickly because i can't vlog while having a contraction because it hurts too much [Music] okay sorry about that slight uh pause so on saturday i had a stretch and sweep which is when i don't really understand it that much but basically they you can google it if you want to know the details but they basically it's a it's a very natural way to to get things going that was my due date on saturday and then yesterday uh about 1 p.m in the afternoon obviously 6 p.m and my waters broke and it was kind of mad it was a really weird feeling it was not how i imagined day it's not like in the movies where it's just like one sudden gush of water it's happened it's still happening now like over the last 24 hours it's still happening now and i started having some very minor contractions and i was like this doesn't feel very painful this is fine i was like i can handle this so this will be all right little did i know um what was coming and i'm sure what's to come later it's gonna be a lot worse but anyway i've been timing them and they were very random they were like at one point they were every five minutes and it went to every hour then every 45 minutes and 20 minutes then i think i so we somehow managed to get a full night's sleep george got a solid eight hours this baby is very convenient right now it's doing us a huge favor i had about six hours sleep a few contractions woke me up in the night and but nothing sort of major and i think i slept through most of them because they were so light um but then about 7 30 this morning i was woken up by quite a painful one and then since then they've been painful and regular i've called the hospital they said to stay here for a bit longer and so we're just sort of holding tight until a bit later and once they get more painful and they get more regular and they get more close together i think quite soon i think soon yeah we've got the bags ready we've both had a shower we've had breakfast it's like the perfect time like i'm so grateful for this it couldn't have happened it's not like three in the morning or we thought the other day imagine if it happened at like 11 p.m at night and we've had a whole day we haven't had any sleep and then we have to go and do it but luckily we've had some sleep i'm still quite i don't know i'm not i'm quite nervous but it's okay the contractions are very painful now we're talking about gas and air maybe like i think something would be good to take some of the weight off but yeah the bags are packed here comes another one so i'm going to hand the camera to george well done lucy is so strong i didn't mean to film me no i know i know i'll leave you to it um yeah so many so many emotions today we don't know how long today will be we have two hours in a day see lucy's still trying to be a comedian even through the pain and everything she's still there um but yeah i'm not just like letting her get on with the contraction but i said to lucy i'm my job is to be as as much as you want me or as little as you want me and right now lucy's preference is to kind of be just just focus breathing on her own eyes closed in her mind just getting through the contraction so if that changes and i need to introduce any comforting massage whatever it is then i'll be there for that today just from the dad's perspective because i am going to be a dad probably today which is mad i nearly burst into tears a minute ago i'm i'm getting so many emotions okay lucy okay i'm talking about myself while he's going through this i will come back to this um it's fine it's funny i know it's hard right i've just come into another room because me vlogging whilst lucy's having a contraction really isn't ideal for her she needs she wants right now quiet and focus and peace but we've been working up to this day for nine months or longer since we decided that we wanted to start trying for a baby and it's all worked up to this day so a flood of different emotions excitement nervousness for the labor ridiculously excited to meet him and see his face and see what he looks like and hold him i don't really know what else to say i'm a little bit shaky and i'm trying to i need to be that rock and that birth support person but yeah we've done everything practical that we can the bags are packed so the next step will be to phone the hospital again let them know that the contractions are getting more intense because she's doing so so well but they are painful um you know what lucy's like especially on camera she's very strong and upbeat and positive and jolly but um they are really painful for her so yeah i think it won't be long until we're going into hospital we don't know what today will be like we don't it could go on into tomorrow we have no idea it could be long could be a quick one so the vlog may be all over the place but we wanted to document a day for us to look back on yeah it's such a weird day i don't know like it's there's so many emotions on there it's yeah i don't know i don't even know how to explain it we knew this was going to happen we knew have been leading up to it and now it's here it's like oh it's actually here like it's kind of mind-blowing and like george said i don't know when i'm having a contraction right now i like knowing george is there so i like him being here but i don't know i said like my analogy earlier wasn't it was that if you stub your toe on a table and then suddenly suddenly like oh show me it you're like no no let me just breathe through it just one second let me get rid of the pain okay now i can talk to you i know what it's like as well yeah like um i don't know if anyone had this when they were kids like if if you hurt yourself in the playground as a kid yeah or you're a bit upset and and then people start asking if you're okay yeah your life makes you more upset yeah that was the bit that always made you cry yeah as a kid when someone asked you if you're are you all right and that was like that would make you go yeah no i'm not all right i don't know i think that's my personal preference and i think you said you'd be the same if you were yeah 100 but we were shout out to all the women out there who do this my i haven't done it yet no but i've been blown away so far at what you've done really yeah i haven't done much when it was so funny when things um when we first started getting signs yesterday we just felt so much joy rushed through us we were both like wow we were i was jumping up and down i was actually jumping up and down dancing yeah um and just ex i knew then that that was that was the overwhelming feeling yeah there was no nerves at that point it was just pure joy and excitement and happiness um we've let our family know okay i'm gonna leave lucy to the next one we've let our family know um that things are kind of starting to move and happen we wanted to keep them updated because everyone's so excited so we've been sending out some whatsapp messages this morning just to give little updates and let people know that things are starting to move this is probably really inappropriate but we may be going in soon so i'm gonna make a quick coffee it wouldn't be a juicy vlog without a little coffee section with it [Music] okay little update we have arrived at the hospital and just parked um the contractions were getting more intense and more frequent and we called and it is time for us to head in so the bags are all in the boot they're all packed and yeah we're parked to the hospital and we're heading in okay we are in the room we're just gonna get assessed first so we'll see what's going on uh we'll see how far lucy is or isn't yeah and we'll get a better idea after this little appointment little meeting spidey it's time for a juice vlog now i'm joking i'm joking maybe we could do a little room tour there's not a lot to see bed lucy um little baby area oh oh yeah look at the hats so sweet okay tiny update they have fed us and the food was actually pretty good here and they gave me a portion i said i didn't want to take it away from anyone who really needs it but they said there's plenty so i might just have a portion and grab a little coffee as well i'm all gowned up as you can see what's happened loads has happened yeah i've got a cannula in my arm because i'm having a hormone drip because it's basically been 24 hours since over now over yeah 26 and a half 20 five and a half hours since my water's broke so to reduce the risk of infection they want to get things going and we've decided to have the hormone drip which basically hurries things along but it does cause a lot more pain i'm really struggling with the contractions i'm finding it really hard um really painful yeah i'm surprised you're managing to speak to the camera right now there's another one's on the way um and i've said i want an epidural now because i know i'm gonna have it later because of how painful it is spray your back with some super cold spray so if you're feeling hot it'll be refreshing if you're not then you're gonna make ready that's fine thank you it's just amazing i know i'm so sorry nearby on standby [Music] okay quick update you can probably tell i'm much more calm i feel much better i don't know what it is but having like people in the room and being like plugged in and having all this going on it's for some reason making me feel more calm um i thought it would be the opposite and it'd feel quite clinical and medical but it's relaxed me more the lights are down um we just hear like sort of chill quite chilled out now i'm a bit hungry i don't think i ate enough and i'm not allowed to eat now but i don't know what the last thing i said was i think i was going to get an epidural and you probably just saw some clips of me getting it it hurt going in the needle and the spine situation and then there was this weird like electric shock going down my leg but it's fine now i feel absolutely fine and now i've got the button that i press every 15 minutes actually is it time yeah you can watch me do it now and you'll listen and you'll hear it going already wow says here dos those started it said yeah so every 15 minutes i basically talk myself up and already it's like eased off the contraction pain and i'm really glad i got it i wasn't sure if i wanted to or not and i thought in my head i thought i'll do whatever we've always said we'll just it's so noisy we've always said that we'll just do whatever feels right at the time um and that's what felt right i was i just felt like i was in too much pain just to carry on waiting um they're gonna start the hormone drip soon as well what else is going on george put some stockings on me i should have filmed you doing that oh yeah i managed to get these on is doing unbelievably well like it's it was so so so hard watching her in pain like the hardest thing um well not the hardest thing was the pain not the hardest thing but for me from my point of view like seeing your partner in that much pain is heartbreaking yeah um but she's just doing so well all good i'm hungry thinking about mcdonald's mcdonald's do you reckon they can deliver to the hospital so we still think we might be i mean it's ten to four now a little time update um we still think it could be a little way off but the midwife thinks that we may not need too much contractions i don't know if you can see it does there nothing like a contraction on that paper i don't know what i'm looking for to be honest so there is a paper of grafts coming off she was like oh the contractions are becoming more regular so you probably won't need um too much of a hormone drip or too much to go in there you guys finish now um yes because things are happening quite well naturally which is good yeah um but yeah this epidural 10 out of 10 from me good good good good that's that's what we like to hear and we didn't film before that i had what did i have codeine paracetamol and some [Music] lining drug um just because while they were putting all in i was like is there anything i can have in between because you were struggling yeah okay so tiny update um no baby yet don't get too excited um things are going very very well very positive i have if you're wondering why i'm in the car i have just um jumped out and got some food down the road because it is now a little time update 7 30 p.m and lucy is kind of having a nap she's resting things are going in the right direction but nothing crazy is happening now and they still think it could go like way past midnight so we could be like five six seven eight hours i don't know um away from the baby being born so lucy kind of said if we're staying up she can't eat at the moment this is the annoying thing i i said this is this would have been the time where i went out to get us both food but because of the hormone drip that she's on it means she can't eat so she said you might as well there's no point you not eating if we're going to be staying up all night um go and get a quick bite to eat so that is what i've done and now i'm heading back to hospital been texting her like the whole time and she's just giving me updates like yeah all good um i sent her a photo i got a chicken wrap i sent her a photo and she said jealous so yep i'm gonna get back to hospital now just literally nipped out for 10 minutes and we will continue with this evening um and i have a feeling it could be a long night you never know it's this thing we've been kind of asking the doctors and the midwives when do you think like do you have an opinion on when this could all start properly happening and they're literally like how long is a piece of string um it's all to do with every woman's individual body and when things decide to happen the hormone drip etc is designed to help that natural birthing labor process that later stage of labor um kick in but it still could take a while we will update you i hope this vlog has been um i feel like we've been quite good actually obviously the vlog isn't our top priority today so we're just trying to pick the camera up here and there to document what's kind of going on because i think imagine in 10 i know 15 years when our kid can watch this vlog back the day he was born how his parents were feeling how it all went imagine watching think right now if you could watch the day you were coming into the world and imagine your parents speaking through it never having met you how they're feeling what they're going through i think that'd be cool so we will pick the camera up as and when um and keep you guys updated okay so lucy's just had a 10 p.m examination and we are fully dilated apparently his hands about this far yeah very close show me what it's like to be circling among the clouds because without you by my side okay this is it we have been told we are starting pushing lucy is doing amazing so oh my god it's amazing um yeah so this is it this is the final part we're about to meet him hopefully soon um yeah pushing all been leading up to this moment so so crazy so many emotions it is 11 43 pm until you set me free my eyes were closed now i see clear as day and i just wanted to say that you can take me [Music] you can take me high i can see the sun staring at you when you make that smile i'm moving closer to you [Music] set me [Music] to free [Applause] [Music] [Music] no one will ever take me no one will ever take me away from you [Music] without you [Music] you can take me feels like i can fly you can take me [Music] you can take me high [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] you