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October 2023 Babies 🇬🇧

Positive Birth Story (might help someone)

Hello mamas and mamas-just-to-be! 🩷
I have just decided to make this post in case if it will help someone and just tell you my crazy and positive birth experience that happened just less than 72h ago 😌 I will try to keep it as short as possible, but happy to answer your questions 😁
On Wendsday morning (it was my 3rd day of relaxing maternity leave 😌) I woke up as normal, and suddenly, when I took up the up right position it feeled like I peed myself a little bit.. through the morning, this sensation started repeating every time when I was standing up or walking, so I decided to put in a maternity pad and check if it will soked. By 2 o clock in the afternoon I contacted my triage department and went to see them, by checking my very soaked pad (by that time it took it only 10minutes to be fully wet) they have confirmed that i had water leaking. My mucus plug never came out, and I had no other symptoms at all. By the evening, I was told that when water starts breaking or is broken, you only have 96h to start labor. otherwise, there are risks of infections and etc and it was recommended to go for induction the next day.
I was against induction and any other interventions (based on my own research, experiences of others, doctors opinions and etc) I have told them that we can only take 2 ways scenario, either my labor will start naturally or I will go for c-section. Next morning, unfortunately my labor did not started, I had contractions through the night but that was not enough, baby was moving happyli in the belly but decided not to rush. I went to hospital where I had several interviews with different people trying to explain me that they would like rather to induce me than put me through operation. Going through this and if someone is planning to do this, my advise keep your opinion strong but don't be aggressive, I had to speak to at least 4 people that morning pushing me to have induction, telling me scary things about c-section and making me to feel that I have decided incorrectly and I don't know what I'm saying. But even then I didn't gave up and got admitted to have selective c-section. By 2 o'clock he same day I was in theatre with the most amazing staff, which were extremely friendly and helpful. My husband have putted music that we chose ourself which made that experience even more relaxed, the only pain I had when they've done numbing injection to my spine and then no pain at all!!! 10 minutes later I was holding my completely healthy baby in my arms!
I had no stress, no birth trauma, I just felt purely happy and you know I would never change my decision!
I'm not gonna lie, few days later my belly and scar hurts as a hell... its one of the worst pains I ever had but I would never regret my decision!
So now I'm just wondering why I created this post? I think I just wanted to give thumbs up to all women that had labor (natural, induced or operation) or will have and say you doing everything right! There is no wrong way to do it! And you are all superheroes 🩷