Labour and Delivery:-

On Thursday, 20th September at around 1am I had a shower and went to bed as normal (just a bit later). Tyler was being very wriggly and I was in a bit of pain from him but thought nothing of it as I was usually in pain when he moved around anyway.. At 1:30am I had this intense feeling in my stomach from what I thought was him pressing down on my bladder.. It was when it happened again and rendered my breathless that I realised it was more than that. At 2am I phoned my mother to come and pick up Lilia and to bring me some Paracetamol for the pain. She got Lilia at half 2 and left me to drop Lilia off with my nan (she was going to come back to take me into hospital after I'd had a bath). I phoned James at around the same time telling him I was in labour and asking him to come down, I told him that judging by the pain (which was completely different to when I had Lilia!) I wasn't going to be in labour for very long and would probably already be in hospital by the time he got to my house, but asked him to phone me when he was close to be sure.. Oh, how right I was!
I ran myself a bath and kept the shower head going on my bump to try and calm the pain, but it didn't work. The pain was so bad that I couldn't move when I had a contraction, and I was VERY vocal. I started having a feeling that I remember having from Lilia - the baby coming down the birth canal. I knew it wouldn't be long and Tyler would be crowning. I ended up in tears because I thought I was going to end up giving birth to Tyler alone and in my bath tub. I was crying out for my mother.
My mum arrived at about 2:50 and James arrived around 3am. My mother phoned the hospital to tell them that we were going to be going in shortly and to expect us, but I told her we weren't going to make it. Tyler was coming soon. So they said they'd send an ambulance out to us and also a midwife. Well, neither arrived in time for Tyler's head to come out. I remember telling my mother that Tyler was coming and she kept telling me no he's not.. She then looked in between my legs and went "oh shit".  I said "It's him isn't it, he's coming". My mother had to deliver the head, and his cord was wrapped around his neck and his face was blue. My mother unwrapped the cord and we waited for another contraction.. The paramedics arrived before Tyler's body was delivered, but they didn't really help to be honest. My mother said "do you want to take over because I have no idea what I'm doing" .. and they just stood back and watched as his body started to come out. So my mother had to lean over the bath tub and deliver the rest of him. The midwife came just minutes after he was born. They got me out of the bath and onto the bed for the rest of it (placenta delivery, etc).
So all in all, my labour was 1 hour and 45minutes and Tyler was born at home, delivered by his Grandmother. We were all very shocked and at one point I thought James was going to faint! I had no pain relief (not by choice, I kept saying I needed gas and air but of course no one was there to give it!) up until it came to delivering the placenta. I had a second degree tear and needed stitches both internally and externally, had my gas and air for that. James and my mother both said I was calmer giving birth with no pain relief than I was having stitches with it!
I can laugh about Tyler's delivery now, and James calls him 'bath boy', but at the time it was such a shock and took us all a while to recover.. My mother still cries when asked about it, she was so scared. We all were, but she had to pretend she wasn't for my sake.