Ladies, sorry for the delay in posting! Our bump turned out to be Pink - our little girl, Ciara Margaret, arrived on Monday 23rd April at 9.20pm via c-section
I just haven't had a chance to post with getting the hang of breastfeeding, nappy changing, visitors etc
My labour started naturally with my waters breaking at 3am. By around 4am contractions had started and very quickly were 2-3 minutes apart and very intense
Got to hospital around 6am and was 6cm dilated!
Got into the birth pool and used gas and air. Checkedat10am and told fully dilated so got back in pool and pushed foraroundan hour. Nothing was happening so checked again and was discovered that I had a cervical lip and baby had turned back to back
At this news, I couldn't take the intense pain any more (contractions were relentless), plus they were going to put me on a drip to intensify them to try to make baby rotate and get rid of the cervical lip! So followed hours on the drip and me having a spinal and then an epidural
Ciara did end up rotating and i got to 10cm about 6pm and tried pushing for a couple of hours. But she just wouldn't come down and her heartrate then started dipping
So it ended as a c-section. I was initially very disappointed and dreaded the recovery, but this hasn't been half as bad as I thought.
Here are a few pics of our little girl