Last Saturday was an awesome and scary experience. We woke fairly early, but had breakfast in bed - seeing as Nikki was ill at her desk the day before, we decided that the day should probably be approached slowly... I emerged from the shower clean and shaved to find a shocked Nikki standing next to the bed saying that she thought that her waters had broken. This was at about 12.15pm. We had to go and get her checked in hospital, as she wasn't having any contractions at the time, and we got there at about 3pm. She was examined and told that it was definitely her waters that had broken but she hadn't begun to dilate yet. While we were in the lift up to the hospital, she had the first contraction, and by about 5 I was phoning the labour ward to ask for a midwife to come round to help as Nikki was in so much pain (it was one of the more unusual phone calls - me trying to talk to the labour ward with Nikki screaming at the top of her lungs next to me).
When the midwife arrived at about 6, she warned us not to expect any miracles, and that there might still be a long way to go and examined Nikki. She was shocked to find out that Nikki was 4.5cm dilated, and things were looking like they were moving along quite fast. In the end, it moved faster than any of us realised - and with the second midwife arriving and hastily setting up equipment, but it almost wasn't fast enough! At 9.04pm, less than 5 hours after the first contraction, the very beautiful and as-yet-unnamed baby boy arrived into the world.
It was a surprisingly fast and (relatively) easy labour for Nikki, and she even got the home birth she wanted - the little man arrived with Nikki leaning on the side of the bath...
So here all the adventures begin. He's already a master Poo-maker, and has even now already conquered the tricky arts of feeding and sleeping - and has already managed to pee all over his clothes on several occasions while being changed. He has also already developed a rather good smug grin when you've just fixed the new nappy in place and he decides to go again... and he can burp to a top professional standard (daddy is, of course, very proud)...
And you know what? We've never been quite so tired (Nikki especially), but we've never been so happy either.
3 comments:
Congrats to you and your wife, just happened upon your blog and saw the beautiful photos of your baby boy. Maybe happiness and good health follow him all his days.
looking so so gorgeous chris. but does the bouncing baby boy have a name yet? and are you going to be at gogi next weekend? x x
Hi Lizzie,
No, he doesn't have a name yet - we're working on that!
And yes, I'll be at GOGI next weekend...I'm one of the leaders...!
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