The birth of baby Isobel

[Lorrymac]

Hello again ladies, I am currently sat in my lounge while my little angel is having her first solo sleep upstairs...I don't like it!!!! but we've not had a good night's sleep since we came home and we're trying to get her used to sleeping in the moses basket (up till now most of her sleeping has been done on my husbands chest of in my arms and we've been doing shifts!). So far so good, she's been pretty happy for about 40 minutes.

So yes, i'm afraid i do have a little apology to make - my mum did say that i was "exaggerating" my labour time - purely a case of bad maths but it was 70 hours, not 82. my "contractions "started early Saturday morning, 1.30am and i'd not been to bed yet. From that point till Sunday morning I had a contraction every 2-20 minutes randomly which weren't too painful (looking back now i know what a real contraction feels like!!) but i couldn't sleep through them. pretty frustrating! As you all know I was due a sweep on the sunday anyway so when the midwife came she checked me and said i was 2cm and effacting nicely. She did my sweep anyway and said that it would probably hurry things up - something that I really needed to happy as i'd not had sleep for 2 nights now and was getting pretty frustrated. A few hours later my pains started to intensify and become regular - but every 10 mins regular. I'd tried to get myself into the hospital a few times that weekend but was told if i wasn't in active labour there wasn't anything they could do, but the pain was getting quite bad and i wanted some pain relief so they let me go in. I was still 2cm on arrival at 4pm.....

[China Doll]

Congratulations on your baby girl.

[tigerlily11]

Congrats China. What a lovely name. Makes such a change from the usual wierd stuff.

[Lorrymac]

My husband and I were put in a relaxation room (few chairs and a birthing ball) to get on with it. I was given codeine and paracetamol. A few hours later everything pretty much stopped so i was allowed the use of the birthing pool to move things along. I had about 3 contractions in an hour and a half. As it was approaching midnight I asked to be checked over (was then told i was 2-3cm but cervix very thin) and given pethadine to let me sleep....which i guess it kind of did but i still couldn't sleep through the contractions which were still coming randomly. The next morning things finally started kicking up a pace and i was getting contractions every 5-6 minutes. i was keeping active, walking around, bouncing on the ball etc and asked to be checked at 12am. I was gutted to be told i was still only 3cm...but a good 3cm... so i requested more pethadine to get me thru the next few hours as the contractions were getting pretty strong but i wasn't allowed entonox yet.....The next few hours were a blur, my parents arrived and i was pretty out of it and coping (just) with the contractions. About 4 hours later they agreed to check me again and i was finally told that I was in labour! I have to admit � i cried like a baby. I was just so relieved. So i made it to the labour suite and well, everything pretty much went crazy from that point! Contractions just suddenly took a big turn, the entonox was a massive help but i was still writhing about. Another shot of pethadine did help � needless to say i was off my face, but it did help cope with it all. It was kinda funny at times. At this point i had my husband and parents still with me. At 8pm my father was told to leave....

[cruella]

Congratulations on the birth of your baby.
About three years of sleepless nights and you have cracked it. Lol.
Really, I wish you, baby and your Husband all the
luck in the world.

[~max~]

Congratulations Lorrymac!!! Wonderful news!!! xxx

PS: China, congrats too, I didn't know you were expecting....pmsl!

[Lorrymac]

My mum and husband were a perfect team, timing my contractions and the nature of them (had 2 peaks weirdly) and told me when to hit the entonox for full relief when i needed it. Around this point i was checked and was 8cm, my waters were broken which took me to 9cm straight away. Then we just pretty much waited till i felt the need to push...which didn�t take long. All i can say is that this part i didn�t like too much. It just felt so alien to be pushing �that way� and it did take me an hour and 25 minutes. I kept saying that i couldn�t do it apparently and struggled but i did manage in the end thanks to having an amazing midwife and my mum and husband being incredibly supportive. When Isobel was placed on me it was absolutely unreal.

I did tear both inside and out (2nd degree) and had some stitches but other than that it was a perfect birth. And of course, now i can safely say that i�d do it 100 times over to have my little angel without a doubt. It was an incredible experience and i feel like a different person now for going thru it and of course, now for being a mummy. It�s brought my husband and i closer together than ever before too.

Good luck to all of you that are imminent. And much love to all the lovely new mummies and babies xxxxxx

[k8bailey]

Wow, congratulations!! i feel a bit jealous now - what i wouln't do right now to be in your shoes!! lol.

Well done, hope you are all happy and healthy and getting a bit of sleep!!

k8.x

[China Doll]

Eh?!

[~max~]

Tigerlily said congrats China....

[China Doll]

Is it because i look fat?

[snow.maiden]

Well done Lorrymac! I love the name Isobel, and glad to hear that all's well - x

[Drisgirl]

o wow --you got there in the end!!

I looooove the name Isobel -it was on one of my dream list of names if I ever had another.

Glad to see youre all happy and peaceful-the end result is just so brilliant -enjoy xxxx

[snow.maiden]

Don't keep disappearing dris!!!x
If i ever have a daughter, I want Isobel amongst the other names!
China - not really!!! x

[natalie_1982]

China, tigerlily congratulated YOU by the looks of it, think that's what max meant ;-)

Awwww, Lorry you've made me feel so much better.... I've been getting so miserable waiting and waiting for this blooming baby to arrive :-(

I'm so happy for you and your new little family. Well done girly xx

[DONNNAKEBAB]

We havent spoken before sweetheart but CONGRATULATIONS. I bet you are over the moon and I am getting goose bumps at the thought of your beautiful tiny bundle. My little girl is 11 in June and it still feels like yesterday since I had her.

Someone asked me the other day at what age should they start sleeping in their own bedroom. I said - my little girl is 10 and she still crawls into my bed and sticks her cold feet up my pyjama bottoms to warm up.

lol.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Well done.

Katie. x

[andrea81]

Congratulations Lorry, how wonderful. Glad it all went well for you and that you and hubby are enjoying your baby at home!

Getting baby to sleep on their own is hard as I always felt like I wanted to nurse my little boy, it's such a lively feeling holding them! Got a bit spoilt in the end and had to force myself to put him down!

Glad your well and enjoy x x x x x x x x x

[DONNNAKEBAB]

Sorry I forgot to say, I love the name Isobel too. When I was last in London, we stay at a little B&B there and it is run by an Italian man and his Spanish wife Isobel. The last time we were there she gave me a beautiful jewellery box with her name engraved on it. She told me that each time I used it I would think of her. And I do.

What did she weigh hun ? Gosh I thought my labour was bad with Tilly - 42 hours, induced, 2 weeks late, 8 epidural top ups, pethidine, tens machine, gas and air and then Neville Barnes Forceps in theatre.

All worth it though.

katie. x

[natalie_1982]

I read in another post she weighed 7lb10oz Katie xx