Lucky for us, PC and I attended Part 1 of our 2 day birth class on the Saturday (27 Aug)
The day before 1st of Sept, Mum and I got a mani and a pedi, bought an outfit to wear for the birthing process as wanted to look more or less respectable..in hindsight that was a complete waste of time and money....
The day of events we're as follows:
9 am - small sign of water breakage (state of mind was, no cause for alarm as same thing happened abt 1 mth ago)
12:30 pm Made my way upstairs to start my day to buy baby seat, to my shock - bigger sign of water breaking
2:00 pm drove self to hospital with Mum by my side
2:30 pm - met PC at hospital (state of mind was still happy, as no contractions yet and was convinced I would be sent home)
4:00pm - contractions started ;at this point I requested epidural at first opportunity
7:30 pm - wheeled into birthing suite at which I was in immense pain never felt anything like it
7:45 pm - was told epidural was not going to happen as babette was coming too fast , to my dismay I reached out to Anaethesist and said " NOOOOOOOO"
8:55 pm - Baby Mia was born with no pain relief weighting in at 2.78 kg, 48 cm with a good set of lungs; my first words to OB was "next time caesar"
Here's a picture of the happy new family.
Next is a new link to follow Mia's progress
http://firststepsofmia.blogspot.com/2009/09/mias-arrival.html
....she was such a wonderful gift for fathers day and my own birthday...she truly is a little miracle...
