Gemma Maree Royes Sex: girl Born: 08 January, 2009 Age: 3 years & 38 days Birthday in: 327 days Starsign: Capricorn Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: like to epxress her own opinion, she is walking and has started to run around, and takes 5 mins to fall asleep alone in her cot now

Born 8/1/2009 Time of Birth 8.24 Pm Name Gemma Maree BennettWeight 7lbs 9 Ounces Length 50 CM Head Measurment 35 CM Cord cut by daddy at 8.26 Length of Labor 17 Hours Pain Relief Gas and pethadine 3 stiches needed

It all started at 3.30am on the 8/1/09 when i woke up with a pain in the stomach it was only minor kinda like the pain u feel when u gotta go to the toilet so thats exactley what i did but nothing happened so i went back to bed and fell asleep, at 4.30 am i was awoken again by another pain, this time i knew it wasnt a toilet kinda pain, i was so scared thinking omg this must be it arghhhhhhhhhhh i needed to pee so i went to the toilet again and when i wiped there was blood i got of and rang the hospital where they confirmed it was the start of labour, my partner was asleep in the room and i ran in and woke him balling my eyes out saying " im in labour im so scared".

he calmed me down and ran me a bath and we started timing the contractions, at 1st they were all over the place any where from 10-18 mins i was finding them uncomfortable but i could handle them ok, garry helped me out of the bath and put me back into bed and made me breakfast and a drink we kept timing the contractions and they were now 10- 16 mins apart and were becoming extremley painfull, garry would be doin things around the house and literally drop everything he was doin when he heard the words ow ow ow ow ow ( this was the word of the day lol) this went on for abput 2 hours when i decided i would try a bath to help with the pain, i found that this helped a little which was good, as i was breathing through a contraction i noticed there was streaks of blood floating around my water (sorry if this is tmi but its what happened) i got out crying and sat on the lounge

about half an hour later i was in agaony and the contractions were 10 mins apart so i had yet another bath while garry rang my father to come and baby sit, by the time dad got there my contractions where 5 mins apart and the time was now 9.30 am, time to go to the hospital

we get to the hospital where we end up with the worlds nastist midwife who tells us there is no room for us and then took us in to the delivery room and checked me she told me i was 2cm i was like no way my doc told me i was 4cm 3 days ago god i was devastated but i went with what my doctor said, she then walked out with out saying a word besides 'theres the shower' then she left not to be seen for an hour , and this was when she gave me the gas bottle and said 'here is the gas' and she walked out witrh out even explaining how to use it, by that point i felt like i was in hell, i was sucking on the gas only to throw it down screaming that it wasnt helping, it turns out i was using it wrong thanks to no help and instructions from the midwife so 2 hours of no pain relief thanks to her.

after 3 hours i finally got given a room and garry and i were bouncing back from the shower and were walking arounfd the hospital grounds, garry was amzing he kept helping me through contractions, came into the shower with me and helped me complain about the midwife to eachother hehehehe that was good it didnt help the pain but it was nice to be snappy

at 6.30m pm i was in the shower and i had had enough with the pain, the contractions were bad yes but oh my lord the back pain was the worst i was in the shower when a new midwife came in and asked how i was doing well i told her i couldnt take the back pain anymore and i was ready for my spinal pfffffffffffff yeah right that wasnt going to happen, it turned out my doctor who told me he could do it was even qualified and the doctor who could do it was untouchable, i ended up going into the delivery room where i could have the gas which was hooked into the wall so it was endless yay, so i layed there for an hour or so just sucking on the gas then i moved onto my hand and knees to try and help relieve some of the pain, this didnt help at all, so i got another shot of morphine to help along with the gas, garry stood next to me and massaged my back for ages gee it was such a great help but his poor hands were nearly ready to drop off, the midwife put on some relaxing music and i tried to relax during the contractions, at about 7.45 i had this sudden urge like i needed to poop i kept telling the midwife i really had to go and she said no its just the pressure but if u feel like u need to push then push so i did at times which i found to be a bit of relief

at around 8.05 i was checked again and told they were going to break my waters which scared the hell outta me as i had it stuck in my head that it was going to hurt. when they broke it , it didnt hurt at all i just felt a warm trickle, now was the time to push, i must admit pushing was hard work and painfull but at the same time it was a kinda relief i just cannot explain, while i was pushing i kept asking 4 my doctor as we wanted him to be there i kept asking and they kept saying that they would ring him soon but they kept looking at eachother and whispering and looked at garry in a really funny was as if to say well we aint gonna call when its this close, they ended up calling him proberly 2 mins before she come out, i pushed for around 15-19 mins when gemma finally made her entrance i was so happy but she was so quiet and not crying i kept asking if she was breathing and she was fine yay sure enough about 10 or so minutes after she was born in came my doctor yep he missed the whole thing, he checked me over and found i need 3 stiches, it was more like 2 but he said he done the 3rd 1 for cosmetic reason whateva thats suppose to mean lol anyway to end it off i went and had a shower while garry went with gemma while she had her 1st bath and needles then i went back to my room and enjoyed feeding her and just being mum

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