Baby Wilbur finally makes an appearance!

[wilbur]

One week late and gorgeous as hell, Caspar Glyn arrived at 1.22am on Monday morning. Planned waterbirth at home went really well, will do longer birth report for those interested later. Other ds, now promoted to ds1 , and dd both very sweet with their new baby brother. Right, off to have some more cake (well, I am breastfeeding....)

Cake is essential for the success of breastfeeding I reckon!! Congratulations and welcome to Caspar! xx

congrats

Congratulations Wilbur - looking forward to the full story when you have the time. Welcome to Caspar

congratulations

hurrah for baby Caspar, and hurrah for cake!

Congratulations and welcome to Caspar.

It's proven that bacon sandwiches are also VERY important for breastfeeding. Congratulations - look forward to hearing all the gory details! xx

WILBURRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hurrah! Fantastico! How totally wonderful! I'm so so so glad it went well and will zoom round the Sarf Circular bearing more cake as soon as you wish. Well done, you clever clever thing
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Congratulations Wilbur Wonderful news and name to match.
Can't wait to hear all the details!

Okay - here are the gory details for anyone interested:

Felt some twinges at about 9.30pm on Sunday night, but nothing regular. Went to bed at 10.30 feeling that this was probably it and by 11pm it was obvious that things were underway. Got up and called the midwife while dh set the room up, put the tens machine on me and started filling the pool.

Midwives arrived about an hour later by which time the contractions were getting much stronger. After one very strong one my waters broke and I decided it was time to get in the pool. The warm water helped a lot and things speeded up and very soon I was ready to push. Lots of gentle encouragement from the midwives and Ru helped me stay calm during pushing (it was during 2nd stage that my previous two deliveries had got into problems, so I was very nervous of it). Caspar was born at 1.22am on Monday morning, on my hands and knees in the water. I was able to reach down and bring him to the surface myself and then sit with him in the water for a bit before getting out to deliver the placenta. He was very alert but totally quiet, just looking around and taking it all in. All very smooth and textbook ? just over 4 hours from first twinge to everything finished. A really amazing experience, made even better by the fact that I could get into my own quiet bed with a nice cup of tea and a muffin!

After an emergency c-section with ds and then a vbac with ventouse assistance for dd, I feel very happy and lucky to have had things go so well.

Things are going okay here, pretty exhausting, but at least I know that will come to an end (the benefit of having other children!). So come on other August mums - let's get going and have some more babies!

Congratulations

many congratulations - i actually thought you'd called the baby wilbur which would have been great, but caspar even better!

Congratulations Wilbur, glad it all went so well for you. Iam also on a breasteeding diet of cake and other important nutrients such as, pizza and chocolate!

Congrats Wilbur and welcome Casper, Im really happy everything went well for you.

will try to hurry along but not hopeful

Wilbur, many congratulations on the safe arrival of Caspar, sounds like a perfect birth!

wilbur - what a fantastic birth. Am v jealous of your home birth However sounds like you had your fair share of difficulites beforehand. I was the other way round - 2 easy births and then this last one with the problems. At the end of the day is worth it though

Congratulations and welcome to Caspar

congratulations.
very of your waterbirth but pleased you had such a good experience after your previous ones.
Well done.

Oh my - I thought you'd called your baby Wilbur! (very nice name if anyone's child is called it! )

many congratulations

Well done wilbur. A healing experience. It sounds like a really lovely birth.
All the best and keep up the breastfeeding carbs. x

congratulations wilbur, love the name!