"Midwives from heaven"

On 26th May I was induced into labour and the care I received from the beginning was amazing. Moving from being induced to the labour ward was really exciting and when I met my midwife I knew we would get on well, she made me feel really comfortable and talked to me throughout. And then everything stopped... my labour stopped progressing, my waters were broke and I had meconium in my water and although I knew this meant the baby was distressed my midwife managed to keep me calm. Labour still went no where but I was contracting every 2 minutes. I was given the drip to help speed things up but it did not work and I was absolutely shattered. My midwife continued to support me and offered different pain relief techniques before giving me analgesia, as I had asked. Then I was told I had to have an emergency cesarean and I was scared and felt like a failure, my midwife stayed past her shift finishing to ensure I went down to theatre ok. Without her help I don't know how I would have coped. Everyone who looked after me pre and post natal were incredible and I cannot thankyou all enough xxx