Sorry it's taken me so long to get on here, we've been inundated with visitors, when they haven't been around I've been either feeding or sleeping.
I know Mr Bilblio came on here to give you the news last Friday, in fact he managed to inform all my online friends, but forgot to let my work mates know
The basics are... I gave birth to a baby girl at midday on 20/07/07, 7lb 1oz, and we've named her Bryher after this place
Then the full story... if I can get it written before she wakes.
On Friday morning at 4:30 my contractions started. I didn't realise for the first one, just thought I was desperate for the loo. I climbed back into bed 7 minutes later and had another to woke Mr Bilblio and told him to get the rest of the bag packed while I phoned the hospital.
Because of the fall from the chair and possible waters breaking I wanted some reassurance. The hospital told me to come in straight away as if my waters had gone that far back they'd be inducing me whether I was in labour or not.
So we phoned the taxi and were in the hospital by 5am. By which point my contractions were 4-5 minutes apart and I was at the "I can't talk through them" stage. I was examined and I was 4cm dilated.
I had G&A, but I'd only had 1.5 hours sleep and was exhausted, the MW suggested pethedine and I decided she knew best.
I was hooked up to monitors for the whole of the labour as the babys movements weren't very good so I couldn't walk around. I tried going on all 4's but my back was too sore for that too.
At one point I asked for an epidural, but it was too late as I was 8cm dilated. I was also impressed how quickly I'd got that far so decided I could do the rest anyway.
At 11:30 they decided if I hadn't delivered by Midday they'd use intervention.
I work well with deadlines.
At the stroke of midday I gave birth to a baby girl called Bryher, 7lb 1oz. She had a "true knot" in her cord which had tightened during the delivery and had passed meconium so was rushed away, but a bit of suction and she was fine.
They had problems with me as the placenta wouldn't come away, then when it did I bled heavily so I let Mr Bilblio and my Mum (who wasn't there for the birth but I allowed in to see the placenta being delivered) have a cuddle, while they sorted me out.
I got her back at 12:15, we did skin-to-skin and she had her first feed at 12:20... and it feels like she hasn't stopped since.
I was home by 1pm the next day. I was really lucky the ward was really full thanks to other hospitals in the area being closed. There were 22 women to discharge, and only 2 midwives, but thankfully one of them was the Community midwife I've seen a lot so she discharged us first otherwise we could have still been there at tea time.
Bryher is very contented, feeding very well although she struggles to keep awake while feeding and it can take 2 hours, but she sleeps for long periods in between so when I can switch my brain off I'm getting decent sleep.
We must be doing something right though because rather than losing weight on her 3 day weigh in she'd put on 3ozs!
I'll catch up with all the other posts soon.. I have to suss out feeding whilst sat at the PC.
I did spot one question though from Typhoonsmum I think... is it possible for your waters to break but contractions not start?...
Yes. The fall from the chair did rupture my waters, they leaked slowly before for 2 days before the contractions started. I wouldn't recommend falling off chairs as a replacement to semen or pineapple though
On Sunday my Dad and brother fixed my chair, and my brother is going to get me a new, much better chair from his work place as a replacement