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Emma Hayley France Sex: girl Born: 13 July, 2009 Age: 2 years & 218 days Birthday in: 147 days Starsign: Cancer Development: See the 31 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: July 15th 2009
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with gas and air)
Duration of labor: 38 hours
Weight @ birth: 6lbs 1oz
Length @ birth: 50.1cm

Emma-Hayley-France`s birthstory

I started getting bad pains at around 11pm on Saturday 11th July, we went to bed but I couldn`t sleep for the pain and by 5am the contractions were coming every 3 minutes and lastng 1 and a half minute each so at 6am we headed to the hospital. They hooked me up to a tracing machine and my contractions stopped all together! After an examination I was found to be 1cm dilated and sent home.

The pains continued throughout the rest of that day and night and by 5am Monday morning I was feeling pretty washed out as I`d been up since about 6am Saturday and hadn`t slept since. The contractions weren`t very regular so I figured I still wasn`t in established labour but I called the hospital and asked if I could come to get some stronger pain killers and sleeping tablets so I`d be ready when labour really started. We arrived at hospital at 5-30am and I was found to be 5cm dilated! I was so excited! I couldn`t believe I`d made it to 5cm and the pain wasn`t even that bad...it wasn`t unbearable anyway!

I went through to a dilevery suite and got set up with an IV (I had to have antibiotics as I was diagnosed with Strep B during my pregnancy) After a couple of hours I asked the midwife for Gas and Air as the pain was getting a bit much. At 11-30 I was examined again and found to still be at 5cm so the midwife broke my waters, everything happened at once then...I shot straight up to 8cm and the pain got really intense, I asked for an epidural, the anethatist came and put it in...I was off my head on the Gas and Air by this point and couldn`t really work out what was going on...the midwife, Wayne and my Mum all had to hold me down while he put it in because I couldn`t stay still!

Unfortunately the epidural didn`t take effect at all so I ended up just getting through on the gas and air...but by 12-30 I was ready to start pushing and with a lot of coaching from a fantastic midwife Emma was delivered at 1-30pm, I didn`t even need any stitches!

I can`t believe how beautiful my little girl is and my labour was fantastic...it wasn`t nearly as bad as I thought it would be! To be honest I can`t remember most of it (many thanks to the Gas and Air) a lot of what`s written here comes from what Wayne has told me...He showed me a video he took while I was in labour and I`m lying on the bed giggling and chattering like a mad woman about flamingos and Darth Vador! Lol...God knows what that was all about!

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Dylan Wayne William France Sex: boy Born: 26 May, 2011 Age: 0 years & 266 days Birthday in: 99 days Starsign: Gemini Development: See the 8 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: May 28th 2011
Type of delivery: Vaginal
Duration of labor: About three hours!
Weight @ birth: 6lbs 3oz
Length @ birth: 47cm (18")

Dylan's Birth Story.

I'd been having pains since Sunday 15th May 2011 and was getting pretty sick of it by Wednesday 25th May. I was beginning to feel like I'd never go into labour! I'd had three bloody shows and had been slowly loosing my mucous plug for over two weeks by then. By around 7pm on Wednesday 25th the pains started to become regular but by about midnight they'd started to wear off again so I went to bed. At 2.30am on May 26th I woke up with a very painful contraction followed by a few more but then they started to die down again and I drifted in and ou of sleep till around 6am when I woke up and decided that the pains seemed to be coming more regularly and this could finally be the start of "established labour."

I got out of bed, got myself washed and dressed then woke my daughter up and got her washed and dressed then made her breakfast. It wasn't easy to get her ready myself between contractions but my husband was being impossible! I couldn't wake him up for the life of me...I think by this point he was sick of me saying I was in labour only for the contractions to stop two hours later! Lol. I eventually managed to get him out of bed by about 7.20 and by 8.30 my Dad had taken Emma to their house and Wayne, myself and my Mum were at the hospital. The midwife checked my cervix and said I wasn't even 3cm yet and I should go home and come back later if I was still in pain. (The hospital was packed and I think they needed my bed!) I was feeling really disheartened and disappointed that I still wasn't in labour. We walked home from the hospital (it's about 3 miles from there to my house) as I was hoping this might speed things up a little. It was slow going walking back from the hospital...Wayne had to carry the car seat and my hospital bag, I was having contractions every three minutes and my Mum has a very bad back and can't walk far or fast...we must have looked a right sight hobbling down the street! Lol.

We got home and I started jumping on my exercise ball and running up and down the stairs hoping to kick start labour. My Dad brought Emma back home (he had to go to work in the afternoon) then Mum and Dad went back to their house. Wayne called my Mum-in-law and she came round to take Emma to her house.

By about 3pm the contractions were even more painful than they had been and were still coming every 3-5 minutes (as they had been since 6am that morning!) We decided to head back to the hospital just to see if anything was happening. When we got to the hospital I was examined and the midwife said I was 5cm dilated. She gave me some gas and air for the pain and hooked me up to a traccing machine. Wayne called my Mum and she came back to the hospital so she could be there for the big event!

I can't remember much beyond that point (that gas and air is good stuff! Lol.) I vaguely remember the midwife offering me pethidine and me saying no because it would hurt the baby...she laughed at me and said she was a midwife and wasn't going to give me anything that would hurt my baby...I ended up getting the pethadine so I must have agreed to it anyway! They had to break my waters and put a clip on the babies head too as the tracing machine wasn't picking up his heart very well. Each contraction made me feel like I was in a dream or floating outside my body when I "came round" from each one I was asking Wayne and my mum the same set of questions;

"Have I had pethidine?"

"Did they break my waters?"

"Did they put a clip on the babies head?"

"How long have we been here?"

"Have I already asked these questions?"

"How long has it been since my last contraction?"

I had to ask these questions as I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or if it was all real each time I came round from a contraction and wasn't sure if I'd already asked the questions or if I'd just imagined it!

At 5.30pm my Mum noticed my face had gone red. She asked me if I was pushing to which I replied "I HAVE TO!" Wayne ran out and grabbed a passing midwife who ran in just in time to see Dylan shooting out! I pushed for a total of one minute! He came out so fast that he was blue and they had to quickly take him away and give him some oxygen but he quickly turned pink and was given to me. He weighed 6lbs 3oz and is just perfect! I'm totally in love with him!

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