snagglepat
Mum of 1, another cooking
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I am overjoyed to announce that our beautiful new baby boy was born at 3:52am this morning, at home as planned. It was all rather fast and furious in the end so I missed out on getting in the pool - it was only about 6" deep when he was born. I also missed out on the tens machine. We hadn't checked it and when we got it out the bag we were missing a set of leads! The midwife brought spares but as I started pushing soon after she arrived we never got a chance to get them out. So I ended up giving birth on two paracetamol as my sole pain relief.
I'll write up the full story in the next few days but in summary after a false alarm on Saturday night I went to bed on Sunday night expecting nothing. I was woken at 12.30 by a huge, very painful contraction that went on and on, breaking my waters as I writhed with it. We called our team out immediately as they were coming almost on top of each other and v intense. By the time our midwife and doula were with me in the bathroom an hour later I was pushing at the peak of contractions. I then moved into the bedroom, got on my knees and stayed there through transition and into a second stage that was twice as long as my first and much more painful. We think this is when he turned from OP to OA. He was born at 3:52am and he's just perfect.
We've called him Brennan Gray and he looks just like a leaner version of his sister, despite weighing 8lb 13.5oz, a little more than she did. Ember adores him already, which is beautiful to see. As do we, of course. We couldn't be happier.
Photos and a better write up to follow.
best wishes to all,
Gina. x
I'll write up the full story in the next few days but in summary after a false alarm on Saturday night I went to bed on Sunday night expecting nothing. I was woken at 12.30 by a huge, very painful contraction that went on and on, breaking my waters as I writhed with it. We called our team out immediately as they were coming almost on top of each other and v intense. By the time our midwife and doula were with me in the bathroom an hour later I was pushing at the peak of contractions. I then moved into the bedroom, got on my knees and stayed there through transition and into a second stage that was twice as long as my first and much more painful. We think this is when he turned from OP to OA. He was born at 3:52am and he's just perfect.
We've called him Brennan Gray and he looks just like a leaner version of his sister, despite weighing 8lb 13.5oz, a little more than she did. Ember adores him already, which is beautiful to see. As do we, of course. We couldn't be happier.
Photos and a better write up to follow.
best wishes to all,
Gina. x
xx
and welcome to your new little baby boy 
