Hi everyone. It's banana's baby who's in hospital with jaundice. I think her dh confused you because I sent her a message and she couldn't come online as she was at the hospital.
Anyway, had my baby boy (still no name) at home yesterday morning - 4 days early. Waters broke at 11:40 Tuesday night. Had a few mild contractions every 10 minutes. Phoned mum and dad to come down and also phoned the midwife when they started coming every 5 minutes (which didn't take very long). She left straight away but by the time she got here I was already having contractions every 2 - 3 minutes and in lots of pain. I was surviving on TENS, just about, kneeling up at the bed leaning on pillows. I was only 2cm dilated though. Before long I really needed to use the gas and air as I was in so much pain. I managed to get through 2 canisters and it ran out when I was pushing. I was in agony but was very pleased I managed to breath and pant the baby out. He was born at 4:16 Wednesday morning so even quicker than the last one. I was amazed dd managed to stay asleep through the whole thing.
I was absolutely shattered and had really bad afterpains. I didn't hold him for about half an hour after he was born as I was so shaky and in pain. I had hoped for skin to skin contact straight after the birth but i think they realised I wasn't in any position to do that. I managed to feed him whilst lying in bed. I found it quite painful so I don't think he was latched on properly (although the midwife said he was - I was told it shouldn't hurt).
Spent a few hours in bed yesterday morning after dh took dd to his dad's. We'd had no sleep all night. I managed another short nap before dinner but didn't sleep well last night. The baby (we really must name him) kept making noises like he was being sick which kept waking us up. He'd been bringing mucus up in the afternoon so we were a bit worried about having him laying on his back. He woke up at about 3am so I assumed he was hungry. Tried to get him to feed several times in the next couple of hours but he wasn't interested. Breastfeeding counsellor is coming round this afternoon to help me out thankfully.
Anyway, I'm so pleased I had a home birth. Dh was really worried about it but afterwards he said it was the best thing we could have done. I was shocked. It wasn't nice running out of gas and air when I really needed it but I think I coped well.
Hope everyone's well. Sorry to jump the queue bagpuss. Will put a picture up in a minute and let you know the name as soon as we make a decision.