Hi girls,
Sorry ive not been on sooner to give you the full details of Alex's exciting arrival!! ive not has chance to read any posts so i am sorry if i have missed any new arrivals, i will have to catch up later .
So here goes!!
Friday the 27th of Feb,
I felt so hormonal all day very weepy, and just generally down in dumps!!
6pm Friday niggly type pain not painful more like the type when you need the toilet but more of a tummy ache, i had a bath and took a couple of paracetamol and they disapear, of corse leaving me totally gutted!! so i sit there for the rest of the evening like a bear with a sore head (even snapped my dear old dads head off when he popped over to see how i was ).
10pm Took myself off to bed before i murdered DH!!
Sat 28th Of Feb,
6am Woke up with same tummy, but feeling less hormonal and in a much better frame of mind decided to just ignore the pain and get on with my day - i certainly didnt want another day like yesterday.
7am DH and the girls wake, we have breakfast and plan our day.
9am DH and his father keep an allockment and over the last couple of mths DH and the girls have been building a chicken coop. We decided to surprise the girls and buy them some hens !! the drive down to the poultry farm is a mile long dirt track, very bumpy and only just passable in our non 4x4 car tbh. On the way down there the pain started to get a little more intense, it wasnt contractions and by this point the girls were so excited about getting their new hens, so we just carried on with our plans bought 10 very clucky hens and set off back up the dirt road . Again thanks to the bumpy drive the pain get a little sharper.
11.30am We arrive at DHs allocment and introduce our hens to their new home, the pain again steps up a gear to the point where i decide maybe i shouldnt just ignore it and we head off home.
12.30pm I have a light lunch and allow myself to believe that i may well be in early labour - but decided to have a bath and see what happens.
1pm The pain continues while in bath and is now more contraction like, but not really painful, just like a strong period type pain but it is coming in waves.
1.30pm Decided to ring MW as the pain steps up a gear and i am at the point where i need to put my tens machine on. Due to DD2s speedy arrival i have been told to ring at the first sign of labour. Thankfully the CMW is not far from us and comes straight over, the girls where out playing with my dad in the garden at this point.
2pm MW arrives check BP baby HB, and i have 4 30 second long contractions in the time it takes her to do that but there is still no regular pattern to the contractions they are all over the place some coming at 5 mins apart and others on top of each other, they are still managable and i can still chat with MW while i am having them.
2.15pm MW and i go upstairs where she does an very quick internal and checks position of baby. She then tells me that she will ring and update the second MW and then give my a progress report hence a very look from me lol, she lets the second MW know that i am 4cm, my waters are buldging and when they go we will have a baby very quickly, hence a very VERY face from me . At this point the girls are still here playing in the garden with DH and my Dad, but the girls still dont actually know that the baby is on his way. I dash around packing them an over night bag!! (well you never know this could still be a long day/night!!)
2.45pm I give the girls a very tearful good bye and tell them i will call them when there little brother arrives, DD1 quizzes the MW for info on what time the baby will be born, she has AS and details on time are extremely important to her i assure her that i will call her as soon as the baby is here and the MW tells her she only have to wait an hour or so . I will add that the MW is a lady in her late 60s and in her 40 year carrier so far has delivered over 300 babies at home, and obviously knew her stuff!!
3pm The girls are gone and as if to que the contractions really heat up!! they are every 2mins lasting a minute and i stand in the front window willing the second MW to arrive with G&A.
3.15pm Second MW arrives and i finally get my lovely G&A !! at this point i disappear in myself and i have very little memory of the next half hour, but apparently i am very quiet and calm, and knelt up against the lounge chair with my head on DHs lap with his arm in a vice like grip
3.45 I can feel the baby pushing down and i suddenly feel far more in control, i didnt have any urge to push and the MW tells me just to breath my way through it, i start feel lots of pressure and reach down just as his head start to appear.
3.50 At this point my water break and the head crowns along with a hand, i then give a massive push with the next contraction and the head is out, very quickly followed at 3.52 by a body and little Alex screams his way into the world superman style.
I have just a tiny 1st degree tear (which is now healing nicely) which i would escaped if Alex had not had his hand across his face.
Even though all this was just 4 days ago it feels like ages ago, Alex had slotted into our family like a dream, he is a very chilled out and contented baby, that basically just feeds and sleeps!.
Well i shall leave this here, as the new love of my life is ready for his feed xxxx