Well, the best laid plans... 15 days late and with more medical procedures that you could shake a stick at (so much for au naturelle!!)... Eran Joseph arrived by emergency c-section at 2.09am on Monday 25th October weighing... (wait for it)... 10lb 5oz...!!
The gory details:
Went in on Saturday for induction. "One prostin should do it," the doc had said. Sunday morning, still nothing but the labour ward was full so needed to wait for the second dose. Waters then broke of their own accord at 10.30am and contractions were very soon 5-7 minutes apart. Six hours of labour later my cervix was still posterior and prob only 1cm dilated.... to cut a long story short the drip was set up, I took the epidural option and labour never really became established. Every time the drip was changed to try and get the contractions needed to get Bean out, he became very distressed so we spent another seven hours listening to his heartbeat slow down and stop. In the end after one procedure after another (at one point dp said "blimey, I have never seen so many wires coming out of one person") we ended up in theatre.
Have been told by all concerned that I would never have pushed Bean out without being "ripped asunder" as one doc put it.
So, not the prettiest story but we are both utterly in love with our gorgeous lovely Bean and, the main thing, everyone is happy and healthy. Phew!!!