hello and everyone. thinks are predictably mad here but all good. little Hunter is doing well, not taken to feeding much, but has learnt to latch on and suck just not for long. hand expressed some colostrum for him today to keep him going and we're hoping that he'll get it a bit more when the diamorphene I had in labour wears off!! He's had a team of baby doctors fawning all over him today, giving him various heart traces etc as his heart beat is still a little off. but all tests so far look good and they're happy with him!!
labour was quick, they put in the induction pessery at 12am, but had to remove it at 2 as I was having contractions thick and fast then but not dialated much at all. the contractions were agony, but mainly because I went from 0-60 in no time at all. they moved me onto the labour ward at about 8 am as I was bleeding a bit. about 8 30 I said I felt like I wanted to push so they checked and sure enough I was 9cm (having not even been 1cm at 6am!!!) after that and the pushing could start I found the whole thing fairly painless, just exhausting after being up all night. saying that, I did get a third degree tear, 4 tears in total so thats been sore. was taken to theatre to be stitched up straight away so baby and daddy had lots of cuddles. all in all it went well, although glad its over with!!!!!
congrats to nelly and chick can't wait to hear all about your los.
flyer sorry dp is poorly, not what either of you need right now! !
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to anyone else I've missed!!