courtney Sex: girl Born: 16 October, 2003 Age: 5 years & 52 days Birthday in: 313 days Starsign: Libra Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: started big school and can swin 10 meters unaided

Jessica jane Sex: girl Born: 09 August, 2008 Age: 0 years & 118 days Birthday in: 247 days Starsign: Leo Development: See the 3 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Jessica-jane`s birthstory

As mostof u know I have been in and out of hopstial every day for the last 3weeks for monitoring of my bp and proiten etc, so on Friday I went in to be induced but the labiur ward and maternity wards were so busy they werent able to start me off, i had a sweep done and was 2cm dilated and they said as soon as they had a slot for me they would break my waters and I wouldnt need the gel, after my sweep i started to feel contractions every 8mins and this went on throughtout the night. At 7.55am the next morning the midwife came and said that they had a slot for me over on labour ward, I think I jumped up a few places cause my blood pressure was ready 156/109 so I went over to labour ward and met my midwife was was so lovely, by the time she got everything sorted that need to be sorted and broke my waters I wasnt in labour until around 1.30pm ish, I done well and didnt use anything for the first hour and then went onto gas and air, when I got to 5cm I was begging for epidural but they guy had just gone into therate so I had an hours wait so I opted for the pethaine which I must say I didnt want but was fab and really helps, but in the space of an hour I was ready to push midwife checked me again and I was 8cm and I was screaming for epidural by this time, the midwife was saying to me claire u dont need it the baby is going to be born in a min but I was begging and getting worked up so they gave it to me, but 10mins later after being shouted at to push cause I wasnt listening to them as the pain was to much I was pushing, I really thought I was gonna die,lol, the midwife was telling me to push again and to keep going she was almost here and after 3pushes Jessica was born at 5.09pm. The midwife had bleep for the peds to come as Jessica's heartrate droped low during me crowning and pushing her out and she thought she might have needed a little help to breath but the moment she came out she started to cry and she was given to me straight away and i brust into tears. So the epidural didnt have time to take affect on me as it takes 20mins for it to kick in. The midwife then tryed to deliver my placenta but it wasnt coming so after trying to give me the injection to help it come and it wouldnt after 2hours of trying they decided to take me to thearte and I had to have a manual removal of my placenta so having the epidural was a good thing cause I would have had to have it anyway to go to thearte, so I went down while Darren stayed with Jessica and had my placenta removed, they stiched me back up while i was in there as well but I only had a 1cm tear and needed just a few stiches nothing major like 2 stiches at the most.

So I had a much better experience this time in labour and labour lasted 3hours 39mins. Jessica is just perfect, tiny but just perfect and I'm so gald she is here and safe.