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Darcey Iris

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meanmum · 26/03/2004 13:37

I haven't been on mumsnet for quite a few months due to time and email constraints. Things have sorted themselves out now so hopefully I'll be able to look at mumsnet more often than the recent past.

For all those who may know me from previous mumsnet chats our little girl arrived six weeks ago and we have named her Darcey Iris.

Details (a bit gross so don't read on if you don't want to) are:

Mum arrived 2 days after she was due and in fact she decided she didn't want to come out at all so I had the hospital induce me. She was only 5 days over her due date but if I left it up to the hospital and Darcey she wouldn't have arrived until 2 days before mum was due to go home. I wanted all the support I could get so I was very persistent with the hospital and they finally relented and agreed to induce me at 9.00 am the morning after I was had asked for it.

We arrived at 9.00 and ended up having 3 lots of Prostoglandin(?) before Darcey decided to arrive. I know they say that the second one comes much quicker than the first but both the hospital and I didn't actually think I was in labour until my waters broke and she arrived with the next push. I had some pains prior to my waters breaking but they didn't feel like the labour pains I had with my son and when the midwife examined me I was only 2cm dilated. My waters broke 45 mintues later and Darcey would have been born with them if I hadn't stopped pushing at that stage.

I had sent dh home when I had the third lot of gel as none of us thought anything would happen until the morning and I figured he needed his sleep. I started feeling nauseous a couple of hours later with pains very low down and decided to call him back so he could hold the bucket for me for when I was sick. I never managed to vomit but felt like I needed to. He arrived and we went off to the bathroom so he could run me a bath while I went to the toilet. The next thing we know I am standing up ready to sit on the toilet and my waters break and she is there. Thank god he was there, he arrived about 10 minutes before she did and raced off to get the midwives so we could deliver her.

It was all over in the blink of an eye and I am surprised at how little pain I suffered. I had all the drugs on offer for my son as even the mild contractions were unbearable but with her it wasn't that bad. I came home the same day and we are all happy, healthy and resting (when ds doesn't wake us up in the night).

Anyway, enough of my rambling we now have a healthy son and daughter and I'm already seriously considering when we'll have the next one.

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bossykate · 26/03/2004 13:39

nice to see you back, congratulations