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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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34 Comments

  1. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 1:40 | Permalink

    woohoo and welcome to SmallestOfAll!! congratulations and celebrations!! [can you hear Cliff?]
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  2. lisa
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 2:44 | Permalink

    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

  3. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 8:15 | Permalink

    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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  4. Merry
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 9:11 | Permalink

    Congratulations – sounds blissfully perfect in lots of ways :)

    Welcome to Smallest :)

  5. tbird
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 12:06 | Permalink

    lovely.

  6. Jules
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 12:42 | Permalink

    Congratulations! I love to hear birth stories, they make me feel all warm and gooey!
    Enjoy. :-)

  7. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 13:47 | Permalink

    That does sound lovely :) Looking forward to seeing more photos and meeting SOA in January :)
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  8. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 14:26 | Permalink

    Really lovely to read about Smallest Of All, welcome to her and well done you!

  9. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 14:47 | Permalink

    Congratulations on the safe arrival of your daughter. Welcome to the world. Your home birth sounded lovely.
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  10. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 15:54 | Permalink

    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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  11. Joxy
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 15:59 | Permalink

    Yah! Congrats on the birth of your baby daughter :-) )))

    Joxy

  12. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 16:20 | Permalink

    Sounds absolutely lovely.

  13. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 17:23 | Permalink

    Congratulations :-)
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  14. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 17:46 | Permalink

    Huge congrats from us too. (Another one fascinated by the placenta and who spent ages examining it while second child snuggled)

  15. Diane
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 17:50 | Permalink

    Your birth (or rather your lovely daughter’s birth) sounds brilliant, Jax. Well done, and welcome to your new little girl.

    Diane

  16. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 19:24 | Permalink

    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.

  17. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 19:34 | Permalink

    Sounds wonderful!! Never underestimate the power of a slice of toast!!
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  18. Carol
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 19:59 | Permalink

    Congratulations Jax :)

  19. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 21:12 | Permalink

    Whoooo-Hoooo!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!! I’m so so happy for you all. Welcome, new baby :-)
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  20. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 21:20 | Permalink

    congratulations! and a special bravo to you!
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  21. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 22:07 | Permalink

    Congratulations again Jax. Sounds like a really lovely birthing experience :)
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  22. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 22:22 | Permalink

    Congratulations! Brilliant news. :D
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  23. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 22:42 | Permalink

    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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  24. Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 22:49 | Permalink

    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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  25. Debbie
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 22:52 | Permalink

    Hurray! Glad everything went so well, lots of love to all involved!
    Debbie

  26. Emma
    Posted Thu Nov 19 2009 at 22:56 | Permalink

    Lovely news, well done and welcome to the world smallest of all. x

  27. layla
    Posted Fri Nov 20 2009 at 11:46 | Permalink

    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 ;-)

  28. Posted Fri Nov 20 2009 at 16:55 | Permalink

    Yay! Welcome to Soa, well done Tim (oh, and Jax :P ) and congratulations to all five of you :)

  29. Barbara
    Posted Fri Nov 20 2009 at 18:34 | Permalink

    Lovely story, thanks for sharing. Congratulations again and of course welcome to SOA!

  30. Posted Fri Nov 20 2009 at 23:08 | Permalink

    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

  31. Posted Sun Nov 22 2009 at 1:20 | Permalink

    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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  32. Posted Mon Nov 23 2009 at 0:22 | Permalink

    Oooh, big big congrats!
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  33. Gina
    Posted Mon Nov 23 2009 at 22:16 | Permalink

    Biggest congratulations and welcome, Smallest of All!

  34. Posted Sat Nov 28 2009 at 17:03 | Permalink

    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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