Well... baby starlover is here at last! Can't quite believe it.
Labour started in the early hours of Monday morning, and at 4.45am we made our way to the hospital (myself on only 1 hour of sleep)...
Then endured 12 hours of mostly horrendous pain, alleviated very briefly by gas and air, a bit later by pethidine (which I LOVED) and then by an epidural!
First epidural didn't work, but second one was lovely and I was soon smiling away. Started pushing at around 4.45pm... carried on for over an hour at which point they decided that I needed the help of some suction and Linus William was pulled kicking and screaming, most reluctantly, into the world. He had an audience of Daddy, Midwife, Doctor, 2 medical students and a paediatrician!!!
While everyone cooed over my 9lb 1oz bundle, I was having my 2nd degree tear stitched up when they discovered I had a bleed inside at which point I was whisked away to theatre for an hour while they did nasty (I imagine) things to the insides of my bits leaving me with a vaginal pack (EWWW) and a catheter.
Annnnyway, things seemed better when I met Linus properly. Have just got home due to a lengthened stay in hospital due to the fact that he has a terrible boob aversion and refused to feed!
Making progress with a combination of boob/expressed boob milk/formula... and hoping to gradually wean him completely to boob!
That is the update so far... now must go and change nappy!