luckilotti
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone,
I know this is off topic but i posted quite a few threads about being pregnant with horses etc so i thought i would update you all!
Tursday evening, i was at the yard late as i had gone to clean an abcess a shire horse has (and no-one else will really clean it up!) so i'm there, bathing it and, OMG - my waters went!!!
I Called delivery suite - but the yard isnt round the corner from the hospital! they wanted to send an ambulance as i was loosing a lot of blood also but hubby and my mum just threw me in my car to drive me there, poor horses were chucked in their stables with some feed!
I got to the hospital - and begged for them to let me go to the toilet (as i nearly did before i left the yard) and they wouldnt let me - turns out - IF i had gone to the toilet - baby one would have been born in the bowl!!!
I was examined and they called for the doc to come and give me my epidural, he arrived but by then - too late, i was pushing!
From my waters breaking, to the birth of baby two - there was only 2 hours 6 minutes!! This was my 1st birth also so it suprised a lot of the health professionals - why do they think we were so quick - possiby due to horse riding they said!!! even though i havent ridden since July and never rode that much anyway! SOOOOO ladies who are expecting - fingers crossed being a rider will also help with your births!
Both babies are doing really well - especially as they were 5 weeks early! - i ended up needing a blood transfusion which lasted 12.5 hours which has taken it out of me but i wouldnt change it for the world!
i knew we should have had a birth kit at the yard just in case!!
Thanks for reading!
I know this is off topic but i posted quite a few threads about being pregnant with horses etc so i thought i would update you all!
Tursday evening, i was at the yard late as i had gone to clean an abcess a shire horse has (and no-one else will really clean it up!) so i'm there, bathing it and, OMG - my waters went!!!
I Called delivery suite - but the yard isnt round the corner from the hospital! they wanted to send an ambulance as i was loosing a lot of blood also but hubby and my mum just threw me in my car to drive me there, poor horses were chucked in their stables with some feed!
I got to the hospital - and begged for them to let me go to the toilet (as i nearly did before i left the yard) and they wouldnt let me - turns out - IF i had gone to the toilet - baby one would have been born in the bowl!!!
I was examined and they called for the doc to come and give me my epidural, he arrived but by then - too late, i was pushing!
From my waters breaking, to the birth of baby two - there was only 2 hours 6 minutes!! This was my 1st birth also so it suprised a lot of the health professionals - why do they think we were so quick - possiby due to horse riding they said!!! even though i havent ridden since July and never rode that much anyway! SOOOOO ladies who are expecting - fingers crossed being a rider will also help with your births!
Both babies are doing really well - especially as they were 5 weeks early! - i ended up needing a blood transfusion which lasted 12.5 hours which has taken it out of me but i wouldnt change it for the world!
i knew we should have had a birth kit at the yard just in case!!
Thanks for reading!
