TS if a couple of extras wanting to help has caused that angst for her then it doesn't sound like she was the best woman for the job anyway. soooooo now's your chance girlie!! the head room mum position is now available
(sorry, only read the last post 
i'll go and catch up in a minute)
ooh, forgot to say, one of my really good friends had her baby yesterday too!! she had a whopping 10lb something boy. she was due 3 days before me so yday was 40+12. all i know is that it didn't go to plan but that baby and mum are both doing good
oh and i've looked at my notes and i got in the pool at 12.20 so it wasn't even an hour! it wasn't quite orgasmic but it was a lovely experience
the bit i typed earlier was the nice bit. the bit after was horrible... don't read if squeamish...TMI alert!!!
i started bleeding lots,and had to get out of pool quickly, had many stitches (internal and external but i apparently now have a designer vagina 
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DH decided that i should get up to bed so i went upstairs and promptly fainted. a few hours later needed to go to the loo and fainted again (fainting actually really quite cool, i've never done it before!) I've felt really wobbly today and absolutely exhausted but just eaten half a pizza and feeling a bit more with it. Still bleeding a fair amount (more than the normal lochia stuff) but it does seem to be calming down a bit. mw said today, any more big clots and i'm going to the hospital.... we shall see, hopefully it won't come to that. I haven't fainted since this morning so keep your fingers crossed that things are calming down
on a happier note...DS has fallen completely in love with his little sister 
He loves tickling her tummy, kissing her, cuddling her etc And he's so gentle with her, i'm really quite amazed!
DD is fantasticly beautiful,and has done nothing but sleep since she was born (unlike DS who waited til he was 14mths to give sleeping a go!). I'm having to wake her up to force feed her! We've got a baby who sleeps!!!!!!!!!! (although we're not counting our chickens just yet!)
DH is being absolutely amazing. During labour he was always there when i needed him, had a long skin to skin with Pea while i was being repaired, entertained both DD and DS to try and let me have some sleep yday afternoon and then when they were both in bed, spent hours clearing up the birth pool.
photos have now been tagged on fb so you should all be able to see her [smlle]
Erm and her name may well not be spelt how DH has spelt it! first name is right but we're still 'discussing' the spellling of her middle names!)