Goodness me, it has been an age since I was on the post-natal thread!
As I posted on the last ante-natal thread, DS2 was born on 4 May - he is six weeks old today, making him the youngest of the April-due babies.
My labour started exactly the same as DS1 (show and massive contraction at 6am) but then DS1 got up and started having a massive tantrum, so my body shut down completely. At this point I was so tearful and fed-up (had also had some promising contractions the previous night that stopped due to a careless comment by a family member the it wasn't convenient (for them) for me to have the baby the/the next day), that I considered phoning the maternity unit and asking if I could go in to be induced.
Anyway, I calmed down/DS1 calmed down and I suddenly had a couple of really strong contractions 10 mins apart. Thought I had a good while to go, thought I would deliver that evening (was currently around 1pm), when I had a contraction 6-7mins after the previous one and a strong desire to sit on the loo. That was a position that had really helped when labouring with DS1. Anyway, whilst stitching on the loo I felt really funny and thought I was going to be sick. Later realised that I was going through transition, but at the time just thought I wasn't going to cope. Made it back to the bedroom, but contractions were now coming thick and fast every 2-3mins (everything had suddenly just gone to warp speed).
DH was downstairs with DS, keeping him calm. Unknown to me he was timing things and had spoken to the maternity ward and had been told to bring me in - the only problem was that we were waiting for someone to come and look after DS1. Once they arrived we set off, but what I didn't tell DH was that I had felt the baby drop at the top of the stairs tried to get down to go to the car and that I felt I could push him out - he is a new driver and really was nervous enough without that knowledge! Anyway, managed to hang on without pushing for the 20 mins journey and then the 5 mins that it took to get to the maternity unit from the car (were lucky enough to park right outside) but it was a seriously close thing. I made it to a room in the MLU, got my shoes and jeans off, two pushes and DS2 was on my chest.
He weighed in at 8lb 4.5oz. We stayed on the MLU whilst waiting for a bed on post-natal (DS2 had passed meconium so hospital policy was we needed to stay for 24hrs, otherwise we would have gone home the same evening). During the evening before we moved there were concerns about DS2s breathing, so he was taken to NICU. It turned that he had an infection, which meant he needed ABs, which led to a 6 day / 5 night stay on post-natal for the both of us.