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Finally.

Isaac Charles David Morgan
Sunday 10th March 2013
17:31pm
8lb 10oz

I was due to be induced today at 40 weeks and 11 days. Lucky for me, I woke at 4am with contractions. They were fairly irregular but painful and the induction suite said I was to go in anyway to be monitored. Chris and I left Amelie here with Donald and Laura and headed to hospital for 9am.

Monitoring showed I was indeed having contractions so until a bed became available on delivery there was nothing they could do. So we waited and waited...and waited some more.

Contractions remained irregular and similar in intensity and so I sat on a birthing ball to try and help things along. I must have been enjoying it a bit too much because the next thing we knew it was 4.10pm and they had a bed on delivery so they said they were going to break my waters. Midwife told me I was 3cm and that she had successfully managed to rupture the membranes and left me on the monitor for half an hour...the contractions had become unbearable on the bed and eventually I begged her to let me get up. They were not much better standing up. I was reaching the point I felt I couldn't carry on and was scared because I was only 3cm! We walked slowly round to delivery and when we were shown to our room I completely broke down and couldn't stop crying. I begged the midwife for an epidural but she didn't think she'd even be able to get a cannula in me...I was really panicking by then and started to feel the need to push. The midwife only just managed to get me onto the bed and 6 minutes later Isaac was born.

I was rather wobbly after that and things are a little hazy - I think I was in shock! My labour with Amelie had lasted around 36 hours...

He latched on immediately and fed for about an hour before he was weighed. After a bath and some tea and toast (just can't beat it after all that hard work!) we were taken round to the ward and I was found a bed on a really quiet ward which also happened to be a csection ward so being totally low risk, we were just left to it. Chris had to head home at 10 while I was still pretty woozy and weak. It wasn't until around 3am that I started to feel human again but I had already decided to stay awake all night and snuggle my beautiful boy rather than try and force him to sleep in the bedside cots that all babies hate. He fed well throughout the night and I loved having him all to myself!

What a mother's day gift! For me and for my Mum and Mum in law!

Absolutely in love and blissed out <3