Baby Kirsty is here!!!

• Baby Kirsty Jayne arrived on February 4th @ 7:27pm.


• Weight: 7lb 4oz


• Length: 52cm


• Head Circumference: 35cm

Birth story:

As you know I wonke up at 3:15am Tues night/Wed morning, with what I thought was a contraction. I lay in bed and waited for an hour to ensure I was correct, they were coming every 10 minutes, like period pain with a braxton. I contracted every 10 minutes on my birthing ball for 4 hours then woke DH. By around 9am thy were around 4 mins apart, but kept fluctuating off and on from 2-12 minutes.

At around 11am, they were about 5-7mins. We put the TENS machine on about 12:30 ish, I've absolutely no idea if it helped me or not, but even if it didn't it was a good distraction pressing the button at the beginning & end of each contraction. By 2pm the contractions were getting intense and closer together so I phoned the midwife, she said they were very busy, it was my first baby & to try and wait it out more at home  We gave it another half hour and DH was panicking as the contrax were 2-5 mins apart. So off we went to hospital.

We arrived about 2:30 I think, I got checked internally around 3ish and was a "good 4 cm" and my waters were bulging, so off down to a delivery room. By the time I got to the room about 30 mins after being checked, I'd had a show and the contrax were bad. I was given diamorphine & gas and air.

My waters went about 4:30 and I got checked and was 10cm!!!! Talk about shocked!!! We waited til around 5 before I started pushing. The urge is unbelievable, I have never felt anything like that urge to push. By 7:15pm my contrax had slowed a little, I still wasn't managing to push her out so we got an episiotomy and had ventouse - one contraction & push later and she was born @ 7:27pm.

Our world is complete!!!

Links to photos:

Immediately after her birth: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/weesnowbaby/kirsty/kirsty1.jpg

1 day old: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/weesnowbaby/kirsty/kirsty2.jpg