Hello all - am home with a very snoozy little man (So different to his big brother at that age!). Thanks for all the congratulations; it was a lovely birth experience, a million times better than last time.
Quick birth story - waters went at 5.30 (just as I got up from chair in kitchen to get DS his jelly for dessert) and soaked my trousers, socks etc and kept on coming (DS told me that I had wee-wee'd myself and did I want his potty) so called DH and asked him to come home as was leaking loads of water everywhere, contractions started 5 minutes apart at around 6.30 so called the birth centre to let them know and just ramped up from there, sister arrived at 6.45 to look after DS through the night, doula arrived at 7.30, started mooing at around 8.30 and demanding we leave now to get to birth centre, got there at around 9.15ish and shown into lovely room where there was a birth pool and even though never wanted a water birth as soon as I saw it I was insistent I had to get in water NOW, got in at around 9.30ish and pushed Danny out by 9.48! We then chilled out in the pool for a bit (he was very calm and alert) and went and laid down under blankets for a bit where he had a feed, pooed on me (first of many I suspect) and I delivered the placenta (directly on to the poor midwife's foot when I stood up to deliver it). DH got to stay over (we all went into a lovely room next door and we had a nice 3 in a bed night together)... Unfortunately I probably wasnt in the water quite long enough to prevent tearing and had second degree tears to my labia (ouch emoticon) which needed stitching but hey ho, cant all be perfect! Amazingly Nkweto was right - my cold cleared up for the labour!!
Right, new thread title ideas - "Fab Feb 2009: even the big chill cant stop these mums from popping - come on babies, lets get dropping"?
GTDAHB - huge congratulations on the arrival of your little girl and your homebirth; well done you.
Rosie - sorry Milo has jaundice and you're having blood pressure worries again; hope all gets sorted soon.
Neerly - sorry you're in so much pain; I really feel for you - and you too Catstar
Hope MrsY, QK and Pinktulips are all well and look forward to hearing their news. KT and Spotty - sounds like you're not long off your turns now; please dont do anything silly (like cod liver oil or nailpolish remover,yuck!!). If you're desperate, try accupuncture or reflexology to encourage things along as your bodies are getting ready...