Hi everybody! Sorry I've been quiet, I haven't caught up on the thread yet since Friday evening but the Facebookers will know that baby Heidi arrived on Saturday night at 11.36pm weighing in at 7lbs 5oz. Also not exactly to plan and involved a 4 night stay in hospital for us (mainly down to me though, Heidi was dandy!) but now that she's here I don't care how she arrived! (cheesy cliché alert), she's a little cutie and DH and I are smitten 
. Nailing BFing is our next little hurdle, my oh my is my milk in! Sometimes she latches on great first time and others she's a wriggly little headbobbing worm! I have a BF counsellor visiting today to help, so I'm looking forward to being more consistent with it, I love her shiny flushed milk-drunk face after a successful session.
I was admitted to hospital on Friday night after going in with a small bleed. The MWs and doctor were unsure of its cause (speculum confirmed it wasn't plug or waters) so they wanted to keep me in to keep an eye on me and induce by pessary the next day due to my "possibly irritated uterus". Saturday morning arrived and brought with it some bump cramping and back pain, which I didn't think much of initially as I commonly woke up in some kind of discomfort during pregnancy! Then I started to time the waves of back pain and the other ladies in the ward agreed it seemed baby wanted to come on its own terms! By lunchtime the contractions were 6mins apart and the MW giving the pessary said I'd prob only need the 1 gel (I was 1-2 cm dialated). After 5 or 6 hours of ball-bouncing, TENS, some paracetamol, a codeine and deep breathing, I was told I was next in the queue for the busy labour ward where they could pop my waters. Somehow I mainly felt my contractions in my hips and top of my thighs, so whenever a contraction came I felt too much pressure if I lay on my side or stood up, so the ball bouncing and TENS were huge relief. A MW ran me a glorious warm bath, which I followed up with a visit to the toilet for a last minute #2 however my waters went instead!! My mum was standing outside the toilet and even heard them go, for shame!!
This ramped up the pain and the mw checked and saw I was 8cm dialated and I was brought down to the labour ward, where 10 after mins of lovely lovely gas and air, a flurry of labour ward staff rushing into the room as baby's heart rate dipped to 50, episiotomy, forceps and catheter inserted and enough pushing to make me hoarse next day, perfect little Heidi made her entrance! Some lovely skin to skin for 3 hours before I went up to postnatal ward, and my being kept in afterwards for the 3 nights was for docs to keep an eye on my ever-high pulse and the urine in my catheter bag which was a bit clotty looking, they decided down to the forceps. Docs and MW were great for each stage, but lord it was great to get home to my own bed on Tuesday afternoon!