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Annobal junior enters the world, better late than never

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annobal · 12/07/2007 12:30

Firstly a big thank you to all you lovely MNers especially on the ante-natal thread where you've been such a lovely support.

Now - the birth announcement...

Baby Charlie was born at 18.23 on 10/07/07, weighing 8lb and measuring 55cm.

I'd been 2-3cms dilated, baby in perfect position and getting loads of BHs and even contractions for about two weeks. Being my 3rd baby, I expected him to fly out at around 38 weeks, and that my previous 2 babies had been early, not hung around inside...

Anyway, in my frustration, I went to the cranial osteopath on Monday to see if she could get things moving, and she did. I woke up at 3am with contractions and thought, here we go again, another false alarm and settled back to sleep - then woke up 10 minutes later, then 10minutes after that...

This went on for a while and when DS1 and 2 got up at about 6am the contractions went all of a sudden from 10 minutes to 3-4 minutes so MW was called for planned home birth. She arrived at about 7am and we settled back for a lovely, serene and calm homebirth. All was going absolutely wonderfully - contractions hurt but I was able to visualise and breathe through them. I got into the bath at about 10.30 and started getting the urge to push. Once again, everything seemed to be fine and progressing nicely. My membranes went and we prepared for the baby to come whooshing out.

Nothing happenned as the baby just didn't seem to be coming down. After an examination, MW thought that we should go into hospital as the baby seemed to be stuck his shoulders weren't moving and I was getting quite tired (!!). Anyway, after a failed epidural and a few more hours waiting for the epidural to work (it did take the edge off but not much more than that), the doctor so I was taken into theatre and given a spinal block which was such a relief.

The amazing and lovely registrar examined me and thought he had a chance of delivery by ventouse rather than cs so wanted to try (I also wanted to avoid a cs). After a little twisting he managed to unstick the baby's shoulders from my pelvis and deliver the head. Then came the worst bit - the shoulders got stuck again and the room suddenly went into emergency mode the doctor managed to get an arm out and deliver him safely. Thankfully the loudest crying was the baby's (closely followed by DH and mine).

Anyway baby was delivered and is absolutely fine and beautiful and thanks to arnica has not too bad a bruise on his head.

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estobi1 · 12/07/2007 14:00

Congratulations - pleased to hear all went well in the end. Lovely name too!