Birth Announcement'

[meglet]

For those that were interested I had my little girl yesterday, weighing in at 9lbs exactly. It was a very difficult week as I spent Monday to Thursday night in early labour without dilating more than 2cms. I went in to the hospital for a third time on Thursday night asking them to let me in for the night so I could get some pethidine and finally some sleep (had barely had a few hours rest since Monday night). Thankfully they agreed but I'd only been asleep for an hour before my waters broke and the pains got worse. I was loving the entonox tho! After a few hours of that and still getting nowhere I was put on a drip with an epidural. But even with high strength Syntocin for 4 hours I had only dilated another centimetre. At 11.00am I was offered C-section as I was totally knackered and clearly we still had a long way to go. So I went for that, and she was born 1.5 hours later. She is absolutely perfect and we are very proud!

[Sqad]

;-)

[Psybbo]

Congratulations, meglet and glad you are both well. That is some weight!

[Tilly2]

That's excellent news. Congratulations.

[chrissa1]

Phew!! Congratulations.

[ummmm]

Congratulations and well done.

[excelsior-1]

warmest congratulations to you, meglet

i am very happy for you - and i hope your precious mini-meg is healthy

[~Wingnut~]

Aww congratulations! Now get plenty of well earned rest! :)
Xx

[vakayu]

Deservedly so,to both being proud she certainly kept you waiting meglet,glad you are both well and congratulations.

[rockyracoon]

Aw, many congrats, any name yet?

[DaisyNonna]

Congratulations Meglet. Sorry you had such a hard time.

[wolf63]

Congratulations - I believe the hard work starts now! :-)

[anneasquith]

well done you, im sorry you had to have a c/section in the end , but the outcome is the same, healthy mum and baby, you must be knackered :)

[marje]

Many congratulations meglet and welcome to the world little meglet.

[Robinia]

Congratulations and very well done!

[jno]

well done. She obviously insisted on going the long way round, but you'll both be glad it's over

[Butterbun]

What a long journey for both of you. But congratulations. She's a big girl, hope you get some rest now.

[Eve]

Aww, congratulations x

[meglet]

Thanks for all your congrats. I so wanted a natural water birth, funny how all those plans go out of the window on the day!

We are calling her Beatrice.

The hospital is very likely to let me out tonight- quite surprised about that as they do bang on about it being a major op, although grateful.

[jno]

as long as you're feeling comfortable enough to go home - slicing people open and extracting large "growths" is quite a big op.