Hannah Marie was born on 21st Jan at 20.17. She weighed 61b 12 oz.
The labour went really well and everything happened as planned. We were
very lucky. Contractions started at 4.30am on the Saturday and progressed
regularly through the day. When they started to take my breath away we
slowly made our way to the birth centre at the hospital. They didn't think
I was in established labour, but when they did an examination I was already
5cm..hoorah ! This was at 6.15pm and just 2 hours later Hannah was born
in the birthing pool. It all happened so fast !
Tony stayed with me and Hannah until about midnight and then we were
left all alone. Neither of us got much sleep on our first night. I was still on
such a high and Hannah I think was hungry, as my breast feeding technique was
not up to scratch!
A picture of 'the bump' on the day of the birth
The contractions are starting to really kick in at this point