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Elias Sex: boy Born: 10 May, 2008 Age: 3 years & 281 days Birthday in: 84 days Starsign: Taurus Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor: 7 hours
Weight @ birth: 3.350kgs (7.38lbs)
Length @ birth: 51.5 cms

Elias`s birthstory

I had my NST and internal on friday morning. The woman next to me was asking the midwives if she looked like she was going into labour that day and the midwives said, ´well it´s possible, but it doesn´t look like it` I thought to myself ´you´ll be lucky` I knew I wasn´t anywhere near labour as it´s my first and I wasn´t even due until the Sunday. They sent me home with a new appointment for Thursday 15th.
I felt moody for the rest of the day. I was in a bad mood with my boyfriend and we went to his sister´s for his nephew´s birthday party where I was told that it would be cool for me to go into labour the next day (10th) as then we would have all the cousin´s birthdays one day after each other (3 cousins, 8th, 9th and maybe me 10th) I laughed it off and thought, no chance!
Still in a mood with my boyfriend as he´d gone out I went to bed. When he came home I decided to sleep in the spare room (where I go when I´m angry at him) Went to sleep but at 2am I started getting strong period-like pains every 5-7 mins. I kind of knew this was it so I woke boyfriend who´d fallen asleep downstairs on the sofa and he said, well lets go upstairs to bed and see what happens. he fell asleep but my pains were getting worse and I couldn´t lay down. I paced around, up and downstairs, had a piece of bread and some milk and at about 4am decided (after packing the last minute things in my hospital bag) to wake boyfriend. We phoned his parents to take us and I got dressed and off we went.
In the hospital I was put on the monitor and checked for dilation and was told that I was barely dilated and in for the long run. Would I like an epidural, YES! They gave me something to calm the pain but all it did was make me really dopey, the contractions were more spaced out but more painful! They out me on a saline drip for the epidural and I waited. The midwives at 8am had a shift change so before the first one left, she checked me and said ´oh my, you´re already at 6cm` How cool. I was so pleased but was still waiting for the epidural. About half an hour later they were ready for me, they checked me as I started having urges to push through the contractions. They told me to pant but that was sooooo difficult to concentrate on. Uopn checking I got good news, I was 9cms and ready to push, no time for epidural. After pushing for about 10 mins, boyfriend got to see the head crowning, lots of hair I was told!! I asked the midwife if she was going to cut me and she asked if I prefered to tear, which I did, but after trying for another 10 mins or so, she told me I wasn´t stretching nearly enough and this baby wasn´t coming out so easy, so she cut, which by that time I didn´t really care. A few good pushes later Elias Romero Bower was born at 9,17 am put on my belly where he stayed while I was told how amazing I was, a champion etc and that I should come in every day to give birth as it had been so quick and easy, all this and baby was born face up!!!! Proud daddy cut the cord and we proudly shown by the midwife the placenta and amniotic sac. Boyfriend´s face was a picture!!
Being a mum is amazing and it´s certainly an experience. I would do it again in a heartbeat, I even kinda miss being pregnant.

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