She's here at last! (with pics)

Erin Elizabeth made her entrance into the world on the 26th October weighing
7lbs 11ozs - and what an angel she is!

After vomiting all day I had another check up.. I was contracting but not
dilating was only 1 cm still.. I was sent to another hospital for rest.
Arrived there at around 11pm.. they did a trace of the baby for half an hour
and were not happy, so they kept me on another 30 mins. After that I was
told baby was in distress and must come out. I was checked by a doctor who
told me I was 3cms and broke my waters there was meconium in them.. then I
was given 1 hour to get into active labour or be induced by drip, and while
contractions became stronger it wasn't enough so I went on an induction drip
and also a re-hydration drip.

I was pretty scared.. strapped to a monitor and told my baby would be here
soon.. hubby was in bed at home till the hospital called him. The drip
worked fast, I remembered 1 technique from the hypnobirthing book.. don't
tense up with the pain of the contractions and imagine relaxing your cervix
and allowing it to open as you have a pain. Each time I realised I was
squeezing hard I relaxed everything and used the entanox gas.

Pretty soon the gas wasn't working so well, so I had 1 dose of pethadine. I
had no idea how far I had dilated but told the midwife I would know and
didn't want an exam.. I may have been told I wasn't as far on as I would
hope.. she agreed.

Soon the contractions changed and I began to feel pressure.. I held of as
long as I could.. once pushing the head came out easily.. the shoulders
hurt! I kept very calm and relaxed. Erin was born with the cord coming up
her tummy, wound tightly around her neck and then around one of her arms,
she was choking.

Once that was sorted she was very well... I was happy smiling and was so
pleased.. even though labour was induced the birth was a wonderful
experience I will always treasure. The midwife was great.

I held her briefly as the vomiting continued for several hours. The labour
was 4 hours with pushing for only 8 mins.

Erin has lots of dark hair but has a blonde streak in it! She is adorable. I
am now home, she is breastfeeding well but nipples are sore. No stitches and
not really sore.

Here she is.... http://www.byphotos.com/album/2046437

Andrea... on top of the world!

"Andrea S" wrote in message
. uk...
Erin Elizabeth made her entrance into the world on the 26th October
weighing 7lbs 11ozs - and what an angel she is!

Congratulations!
Love the name Erin!
Debbie

"Welches" wrote in message
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"Andrea S" wrote in message
. uk...
Erin Elizabeth made her entrance into the world on the 26th October
weighing 7lbs 11ozs - and what an angel she is!

Congratulations!
Love the name Erin!
Debbie



And she's gorgeous. I'm getting so broody again...
Debbie
(and you look nothing like I imagined :-D)

Congratulations! She's beautiful! And you can sure tell by all that
pink that you were looking forward to having a girl g !

PS--You don't look anything like I'd imagined. Don't know what I
imagined, but you don't look like it.

Lila
DS 11/00
DD 10/03
EDD 04/09/06

"Andrea S" wrote in message
. uk...
Erin Elizabeth made her entrance into the world on the 26th October
weighing 7lbs 11ozs - and what an angel she is!

After vomiting all day I had another check up.. I was contracting but not
dilating was only 1 cm still.. I was sent to another hospital for rest.
Arrived there at around 11pm.. they did a trace of the baby for half an
hour and were not happy, so they kept me on another 30 mins. After that I
was told baby was in distress and must come out. I was checked by a doctor
who told me I was 3cms and broke my waters there was meconium in them..
then I was given 1 hour to get into active labour or be induced by drip,
and while contractions became stronger it wasn't enough so I went on an
induction drip and also a re-hydration drip.

I was pretty scared.. strapped to a monitor and told my baby would be here
soon.. hubby was in bed at home till the hospital called him. The drip
worked fast, I remembered 1 technique from the hypnobirthing book.. don't
tense up with the pain of the contractions and imagine relaxing your
cervix and allowing it to open as you have a pain. Each time I realised I
was squeezing hard I relaxed everything and used the entanox gas.

Pretty soon the gas wasn't working so well, so I had 1 dose of pethadine.
I had no idea how far I had dilated but told the midwife I would know and
didn't want an exam.. I may have been told I wasn't as far on as I would
hope.. she agreed.

Soon the contractions changed and I began to feel pressure.. I held of as
long as I could.. once pushing the head came out easily.. the shoulders
hurt! I kept very calm and relaxed. Erin was born with the cord coming up
her tummy, wound tightly around her neck and then around one of her arms,
she was choking.

Once that was sorted she was very well... I was happy smiling and was so
pleased.. even though labour was induced the birth was a wonderful
experience I will always treasure. The midwife was great.

I held her briefly as the vomiting continued for several hours. The labour
was 4 hours with pushing for only 8 mins.

Erin has lots of dark hair but has a blonde streak in it! She is adorable.
I am now home, she is breastfeeding well but nipples are sore. No stitches
and not really sore.

Here she is.... http://www.byphotos.com/album/2046437

Andrea... on top of the world!

Congratulations! Love her name - my sister's name is Erin, and my name is
short for Elizabeth...

Andrea S wrote:
Erin Elizabeth made her entrance into the world on the 26th October
weighing 7lbs 11ozs - and what an angel she is!

Congratulations and welcome to baby Erin!!!

Here she is.... http://www.byphotos.com/album/2046437

Adorable. Seeing babies makes me sooo anxious for mine :-D.

You look fantastic. I look baaaad the first few days after birth, lol.
Good looking family, kids are bound to be gorgous :-)

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Whoo hooo! Congrats on the safe arrival!
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Andrea S wrote:
Erin Elizabeth made her entrance into the world on the 26th October weighing
7lbs 11ozs - and what an angel she is!

She is beautiful! Congratulations!

Jacqueline

Andrea she's just beautiful, congratulations

that's a fairly impressive cord loop, no wonder she was in distress, poor
little mite

congratulations

Anne