Hello everyone 
I hope you all don't have too much longer to wait until you meet your babies. I have tried to keep up with this thread, I manage to read during feeding but never have time to reply 
So sorry some of you are having a shitty time right now.
I'm not going to bore you all with my birth story but despite my ideal scenario of giving birth in the pool didn't happen I was supported fully by the Midwifes and because of that my birth experience was definitely positive. In my opinion their work is truly undervalued so Detective et al I think you do an amazing job
Murray is a week old today, I cannot believe how much our life's have changed, for the better, in the last week. He is a little boob monster and is attached to me from about 4pm until 1 or 2 am in the morning cluster feeding, then rewarding us with about 3 hours sleep in a block. I never thought I would be raving about how great I feel after 3 hours sleep. Breast feeding is, now going well, it was very difficult those first few days. The second night in hospital I was feeding from 8pm right through until 6am and the following night wasn't much better but in sure that is now why my milk came in quickly, so in hindsight although it was beyond difficult it's probably a good thing . And part of the reason that my wee man only lost 60g or 1.6% of his birth weight.
I haven't been particularly emotional, well until Murray had his heel test. The midwife didn't get enough blood the first time which resulted in her trying a second time. Hearing my baby cry and knowing it was because he was hurt and that was partly my fault because I agreed to the test was beyond heartbreaking 
goodness knows how I will feel when it comes to his injections.
We are taking Murray to get his photographs taken today, I'm so excited