no blogging for over a week, anyone would think I’d had a baby 
Smallest of all arrived punctually last Tuesday on her due date. Apparently only 4% of babies do that. Labour in the form of irregular contractions started overnight Monday, just at the level to interrupt my sleep so that I was nicely tired as they built up gradually during the day.
Rang around lunchtime to let my midwife know that I wouldn’t be coming into clinic and why, and discovered she was off. Mw I spoke too said it sounded like I had a while to go (how do they tell that over a phoneline? they were wrong about it with Big too), but I was back on the phone to her at 16.30 as I was beginning to feel pressure. That meant we had the two nearest mws with us within half an hour
At that point though, I was only 2-3 cms 
Not the news I wanted to hear. So L went away again, and R decided she’d hang on til D, the mw actually covering could get there, as she was somewhere with minimal phone coverage and proving difficult to reach. She advised that I get moving about and have some food, so Tim made me some toast.
Either the food or the toast made the difference and slightly less than two hours later I was on the bed on my side, just past 8cm. Good for the toast. R was calling L back as she didn’t think D was going to make it in time, in the end it was in the nick of time to hand me the entonox just as we got to the pushing part.
(I think she walked in and said hi, I’m D, ooh are we catching a baby? and proper introductions had to wait )
Baby was born with just two pushes I think, a whole 5 minutes after the 8cm. She still had membranes round her shoulders as she was passed to me, and she was kind of cross about the whole thing. Have to say that the little bit of entonox made a lot of difference to that final couple of minutes – it’s the bit that I’d remembered from Small’s birth and had been dreading. Could also have been that he was that little bit bigger – he came in at 9lb 9oz and 56cm long, while s-o-a was 8lb 12oz and 52cm. A very respectable size I thought.
After we’d had skin to skin for a little while R wrapped her up and passed her to Tim so that we could concentrate on the placenta. That was delivered after about 15 minutes and then we all took a look, as it was quite an impressive size
Next order of play was shower for me while Tim and R sorted out the bedroom. And then I got to retire to my own bed with my new daughter – gotta love home birth
Since then she’s getting the hang of this feeding lark though she really hasn’t worked out night and day yet. We had a couple of days of mucousy coughing which were less than fun, but we’re well into milk now and it’s beginning to show through 
And that will have to do for a first post about our newest family member.
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woohoo and welcome to SmallestOfAll!! congratulations and celebrations!! [can you hear Cliff?]
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Congratulations and welcome to smallest too
I needed some good news today and this has just made me so happy for you.Hugs and kisses to you all xx
Wow, what fabulous news! Just what we need to cheer us up and give us hope at a time like this. Fondest congratulations to all of you there. xx
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Congratulations – sounds blissfully perfect in lots of ways
Welcome to Smallest
lovely.
Congratulations! I love to hear birth stories, they make me feel all warm and gooey!
Enjoy.
That does sound lovely
Looking forward to seeing more photos and meeting SOA in January 
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Really lovely to read about Smallest Of All, welcome to her and well done you!
Congratulations on the safe arrival of your daughter. Welcome to the world. Your home birth sounded lovely.
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Well done – I’ve been checking back every day and I KNEW you must have…
Sounds like it all went very smoothly.
I’ve always been fascinated by placentas too
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Yah! Congrats on the birth of your baby daughter
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Joxy
Sounds absolutely lovely.
Congratulations
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Huge congrats from us too. (Another one fascinated by the placenta and who spent ages examining it while second child snuggled)
Your birth (or rather your lovely daughter’s birth) sounds brilliant, Jax. Well done, and welcome to your new little girl.
Diane
Congratulations. I am a homebirth mummy too, they really are special. We are terribly broody, but decided 4 is enough, so i will just have to come here and hear about your little baby.
Big mummy hugs to you and baby.
Sounds wonderful!! Never underestimate the power of a slice of toast!!
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Congratulations Jax
Whoooo-Hoooo!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!! I’m so so happy for you all. Welcome, new baby
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congratulations! and a special bravo to you!
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Congratulations again Jax. Sounds like a really lovely birthing experience
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Congratulations! Brilliant news.
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Fab to have a post from you about it – congrats and all that – not sure when I’ll get to meet her so please put more photos somewhere!
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yayayyayay! love ’smallest of all’ as a blog name – did you go with a D name in r/l in the end?!
so glad it all went ok xxx
‘I think she walked in and said hi, I’m D, ooh are we catching a baby? and proper introductions had to wait ‘
lol, i’ve had ones like that!
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Hurray! Glad everything went so well, lots of love to all involved!
Debbie
Lovely news, well done and welcome to the world smallest of all. x
Ah I’ve been waiting to hear all about her! V. lovely
I finally got a good look at my placenta with Nellie – I even made them get pictures of it, think they thought I was slightly odd
Yay! Welcome to Soa, well done Tim (oh, and Jax
) and congratulations to all five of you 
Lovely story, thanks for sharing. Congratulations again and of course welcome to SOA!
Oh congratulations Jax! She is a beauty. I hope that she is bringing you all much joy and that you are enjoying your babymoon. Glad it went smoothly for you. Lisa x x
Lovely post, Jax
, so nice to read. Congratulations to the whole family with smallest of all, and happy landings to her. Enjoy (and get some sleep every now and then) xx
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Oooh, big big congrats!
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Biggest congratulations and welcome, Smallest of All!
Well done. So lovely to hear you had such a good home birthing experience. I really wish i’d done it with at least one of my three. Just a bit of gas & air too… you brave thing! xx
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