Mr & Mrs Marchbunny are pleased to announce the safe arrival of Samuel on 07/07/07 at 11.56 pm weighing 7lbs 12 ozs. Read on if you want details . . .
Woke at 3am on Saturday morning with a few contractions and a show, for some reason I decided today was the day and phoned my parents at 7am told them to cancel their plans and make the journey to look after ds and dd.
Decided to carry on day as normal whilst having contractions that were completely irregular and not causing me too many problems so made our way round to the village fete, the walking bought on some pretty good contractions (eyed up the bouncy castle) and then had a quick panic about giving birth in the middle of our Playing Field with the entire population of village. Because of a previous short labour decided to make way to hospital to be checked out, was 4cm but not in established labour so decided to come home as only 20 mins from hospital and wanted to be as relaxed as possible.
Anyway, the car journey home did the trick, by the time I got back home contractions were coming every 4-6 minutes lasting 45 - 60 seconds and felt the need for my Tens machine. Spent the next couple of hours at home timing contractions and explaining to my 3 and 7 year how a tens machine works! And being asked questions like 'Does it hurt Mummy?' and 'is the electricity working?'
8 pm Decided I had had enough of the questions and made way back to hospital - Tens Machine working wonders. 6cm dilated with a lovely stretchy cervix yeah! Really wanted to give birth standing, as this had worked well with my dd but as it was the end of the day my legs were knackered and at about 10.30pm clambered up on the bed and took up an upright position using the back of bed as a resting place for my head and all important gas and air!! Great stuff, along with the boost button on Tens machine was still coping ok, but started asking silly questions such as 'This baby is going to come out, isn't it?'
Waters broke at about 11.30 pm, my husband's comment was 'Where does it all come from?' Yes, very helpful - along with him yawning mid contraction! Now the urge to push was getting greater and I was determined to try and give Samuel a great birth date so pushed and groaned hard with the next couple of contractions and out he came with just four minutes to spare. Midwife was impressed with my timing!
Had a lovely feed and skin to skin contact, I only had a few stitches. Which did not matter as we had our lovely baby boy!