https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:26:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1529891 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:37:17 +0000 swurlygurl 1529891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You are a good writer - I had no problem following along!</p> <p>That sounds... traumatic. The care, more-so than the actual delivery. Sounds like you and your husband did great together though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1529753 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:54:52 +0000 mdf106 1529753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You are such a trooper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1527986 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:08:11 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1527986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>congrats! Such an awesome story to read. You're a super hero! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1527820 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:20:46 +0000 birdofafeather 1527820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i too remember your in-progress thread well. so traumatizing and you have every right to complain! i'm horrified for your l&amp;d, but dang, that baby is a cutie. you're a rock star mama! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1526851 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:34:09 +0000 MrsStar 1526851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You are superwoman! Thanks for sharing your story! The visiting hours are the same here in New Zealand in public hospitals (at the one I birthed in anyway) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1526792 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:18:05 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1526792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>you're such an incredible writer! So fun to read. :)</p> <p>baby elliott is such a cutie, and you're superwoman. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1526687 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:46:36 +0000 heartonastring 1526687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My heart ached for you when you were in labour and it aches for you again now reading all that you went through to bring that beautiful girl into the world.</p> <p>I agree that a strongly worded letter is in order. No one should be made to feel so helpless during such an important and vulnerable time. Wishing you much love and healing :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday/page/2#post-1526677 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:43:52 +0000 Bookish 1526677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember when this was going on and being so horrified for you! Thank you for feeling up to sharing this, and don't ever feel like you are being too sensitive or dramatic - you were treated poorly and I'm just it ended on a happy note! E is gorgeous (that hair!) and you are such a tough cookie :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1526630 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:29:57 +0000 kml636 1526630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>wow, thank you for sharing. Good to gain perspective on how the UK does an induction! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1526609 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:26:07 +0000 artsyfartsy 1526609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PermaStudent: @BakerBee: Ditto! I was so pulled in to this story! What an ordeal. The beginning just sounds horrifying. Your little girl is adorable!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1526509 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:03:06 +0000 cheert16 1526509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Tears in my eyes for your story!! Thanks for sharing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1526458 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:54:07 +0000 illumina 1526458@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I laughed so much at the snorkelling story! I must have been doing it wrong because the gas &amp; air did nothing for me! You did an amazing job! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1526074 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:47:05 +0000 Glitter 1526074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: good job!! Thanks for sharing. Your little girl is a beauty! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525462 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:44:23 +0000 Alivoo01 1525462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG!! That sucks you had no sleep because you're in a room full of laboring women. I'd go crazy!! You're so sweet for soothing the lady next to you.</p> <p>I too had "convulsions" during my labor even though I had an epidural. I didn't understand why either, but my birth photographer told me it meant I was really close and the good stuff is about to happen. haha!</p> <p>Congratulations and she's a cutie! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525420 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:30:54 +0000 Cherrybee 1525420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LMOG47: Yup. If you're not being induced and you turn up at the hospital in labour, you go straight into the single occupancy room on the labour ward. If you are not far enough along to warrant a bed on labour ward, they send you home until you reach a certain point (or until your water has been broken for 24 hours and is an infection risk). At my hospital, it looks like this (scary, huh?!) but they've just opened up a swish new "birthing centre" with pools in some of the rooms. I can never give birth there though because I will always be considered high risk. Sob sob. </p> [attach=2581/14/n33prk.600x450.WP_000096.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525356 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:10:09 +0000 Caly 1525356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: when you're in full blown labor do you get a private room? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525343 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:06:01 +0000 Pumuckl 1525343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Beautifully written story! I really enjoyed reading it although I kept thinking "these people are so mean". I felt so sorry for you! And little Elliott is so precious. Well done mama! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525311 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:59:03 +0000 LovelyPlum 1525311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also, I think a strongly worded letter is the LEAST you should do. Policy or not, that is not a way to treat a laboring (or any!) woman. You need to let them know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525297 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:55:39 +0000 LovelyPlum 1525297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What a crazy, crazy story. I am so glad that she and you are OK. Congratulations on a job well done in an insane situation. And she is so beautiful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525295 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:55:09 +0000 Cherrybee 1525295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LMOG47: When you are in full blown labour (on the labour ward), they can stay throughout the whole thing but when you are on the wards (pre and post baby) they can only be there during visiting hours. It's because you're sharing a room with five other people. I had to stay in the following night and so DH had to leave us at 8pm. The other 5 babies - plus E - took it in turns to cry all night so it was another sleepless one: 5 nights with no sleep in total. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525258 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:46:04 +0000 Caly 1525258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The others are right, you're a great story teller! And, she's absolutely adorable! I cannot even imagine how difficult that must have been, I was traumatized just reading about it. Some people just don't have any business being in healthcare. I had no idea that partners were only allowed during visiting hours in the UK, that's unheard of here in the states! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525256 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:45:02 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1525256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't believe they treated you that way. You are definitely a trooper! She's gorgeous. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525230 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:37:59 +0000 kiddosc 1525230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow... this sounds downright medieval at times. I cannot believe someone though it would be ok for you to go days without being able to sleep. You are a rockstar! And your DH sounds awesome as well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525226 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:37:33 +0000 Smurfette 1525226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember you posting when it it was all happening. Props to you Mama!!<br /> She is beautiful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525215 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:34:56 +0000 mrs. wagon 1525215@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: I laughed out loud at your snorkelling story, and I'm at my desk at work! haha. And I LOVE how your husband broke you out to go home for some sleep. That happened to my friend here in the states... her labor was progressing super slowly and she actually yelled at the doctors to let her go home. (she's a crazy sweet and accommodating person usually!) Then she labored at home for the next 24 hours! She actually dilated very quickly after starting to receive pitocin.. I think she went from 6-10 in a matter of 15 minutes!</p> <p>Congratulations!!! What an amazing birth story. I'm so sorry for all the negative pieces (especially laboring alone and watching all those other women labor alone... I would NEVER have gotten through my labors without my husband and my multiple super helpful and sweet nurses) but wow, what a story. I was sure you were going to end up in C section, after such a long labor and so little sleep. Or even forceps. But you did it!! What a supermama!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525213 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:34:45 +0000 avivoca 1525213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember you in-progress thread, and not being able to believe how the midwives were treating you. You have a beautiful daughter, and I hope that if you have another baby that your experience is the complete opposite from this one. You are a trooper! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525199 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:32:06 +0000 Cherrybee 1525199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sea_bass: It's probably weird that I am so happy to hear that... but I am. Thank you. I have spent the last 8 months thinking that it was just me - that I was over sensitive, had too high expectations etc. I feel a strongly worded letter coming on. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525181 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:26:59 +0000 sea_bass 1525181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: you must complain. A lot of women feel they shouldn't because they came away with a healthy baby and feel they shouldn't complain. Your care sounds very, very poor and contrary to numerous NICE guidelines. At the time you were overwhelmed, completely understand, but you've been mistreated (literally). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525173 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:25:09 +0000 Synchronicity 1525173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: Drama queens, unite! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-110-hour-induction-cherrybeans-birthday#post-1525145 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:19:32 +0000 Cherrybee 1525145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Grace: It's brutal, isn't it? </p>