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Birth announcements

Share your unique birth stories and read heartwarming stories from fellow mums. For more on your baby’s development, check out the Mumsnet Ages & Stages emails.

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Another arrival...

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Rat99 · 12/09/2006 11:23

Hi, a little girl arrived late sunday night. She was delivered 12 days late at home, and was breeched, as expected. Main part of labour (after a day or two of faffing) took about 23 hours or so. She's 8lbs and likes to sleep!

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loopylou0612 · 12/09/2006 11:26

Congratulations on your arrival!

lucy5 · 12/09/2006 11:27

Congratulations!

fairyjay · 12/09/2006 11:36

Congratulations on your little bundle!

rubles · 12/09/2006 12:45

Oh that's amazing. I saw your previous threads and was really interested to see what happened. Well done you!

If you have any time I'd love to know the details. How were the midwives with it all? Were they happy and confident with the fact it was a breech at home?

SoupDragon · 12/09/2006 12:52

Congratulations!

prettybird · 12/09/2006 12:57

Congratulations on a breech birth at home!

She shared her birthday with my ds - good day!

3andnomore · 12/09/2006 13:29

Congratulations on the Birth of your Babydaughter...so pleased that you got your Homebirth and that all went well!
have a wonderfull Babymoon!

conni · 12/09/2006 14:28

congratulations!

Toady · 12/09/2006 15:17

Fantastic, you are brilliant!!

dreamydowler · 12/09/2006 16:34

congratulations to you and well done on your breech home birth. I look forward to hearing more about it on the due in august postnatal thread.

belgo · 13/09/2006 05:59

Well done, after reading your previous thread discussing breech/home birth, I'm glad all went well in the end and you had the birth you wanted.

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Rat99 · 18/09/2006 12:29

Just an update - sorry Rubles to take so long to answer your questions. I had an independent midwife and she also found a second midwife who was experienced in breech births. They were fairly relaxed about it and took me through what happens with a doll and pelvis beforehand, including how to deal with all the usual worries (cord appearing too early, etc). As it turned out, it went very much to plan. The second stage took about 30mins or so. She appeared quite purple but was screaming and doing fine after a minute with no resusitation.

I would definitely recommend home birth even for breeches - it's more complicated, but an experienced midwife should be able to handle most difficulties. I ended up needing no drugs or gas and stuff, whereas in hospital she would have been a compulsory c/s (4 weeks earlier than she eventually decided to apear).

She's now happy and healthy. Problems with feeding, but not sure that isw linked to the birth.

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hulababy · 18/09/2006 12:31

Congratulations and welcome to your little girl

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