Hello chaps, found you all again !
I though that the thread had ground to a halt, so had nowhere to post a birth announcement and on the spur of the moment I thought that I'd check to see if anyone had popped back up again.
Well, after loads of false alarms, I had another gorgeous ds on Dec 6th, weighing in at a diddy 6lb 9oz.
It was a bit dramatic. I'd been to the hospital in the morning but sent home as eveything stalled. We had a family birthday party for ds in the afternoon (his birthday is the 7th) and then at 7.04pm I had the first of a series of MASSIVE contraction - no build-up, just 0-60 like in the soaps . Got mum over to babysit, dash to the hospital, only to be told that I was only 3 cm. To cut a long story short, half an hour later, while the midwife was out getting the antibiotics, the last of my waters went, almost no urge to push and ds was crowning . I was still standing up, dh ran for help and ds2 tumbled to the floor, bungeeing on his cord.
I'll never forget the 'splat' sound when he hit the floor. Cue lots of people, me gibbering on the floor and ds2 yelling his little heart out.
Luckily all was well, he was fine and I eventually calmed down . We stayed in for 48 hours just to be safe, but he's a little smasher and feeds really well. Ds1 is a brilliant big brother. I can't believe that ds2 is 5 weeks already!
Iggy - great news and I can't believe that C1NDY has so little time left to go.