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Imogen Grace Sex: girl Born: 24 December, 2007 Age: 0 years & 257 days Birthday in: 108 days Starsign: Capricorn Development: See the 8 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Being the most perfect baby in the world.

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 3hr25
Weight @ birth: 9lb2oz
Length @ birth:

Birth Story

23/12/07

Ok so today is my day of induction. Gotta go to the hospital at 8pm.

So we arrive at 7pm just to be on the safe side, get booked in and changed into nightclothes. Ive got my mum and b/f with me. So the nurse comes and insterts a peserie (think thats the right word) into the neck of my womb which is supposed to put you into false labour so you start dilating. My mum leaves and its just me and chris who stayed till about 10pm, no pain yet. Chris had been gone about half hour when i start to get stomach cramps about every minute. The nurse comes to check on me at about 8am and the pesserie has worked, my cervix is now soft enough. They broke my waters at about 11am and bang im in full blown labour 6cm dilated. Had gas and air but it made me sick so decided to have epidural. They gave me epidural at about half 11am and it took a little while to work, the doc said she will be back in about an hour when i should be ready to push. I cant move around as im hooked up to IV and they inserted a monitor inside me attatched to Babys head as she needs monitoring as ive been induced. So the midwife comes back at about 1pm examines me and decides im ready to push, started pushing at 1.20pm on the 24th Dec and 3 pushes later Imogen-Grace was born at 1.26pm! Chris cut the cord, it was lovely. My mum has been with me the whole time aswel. Im holding Imogen having a cuddle but my placenta isn't coming out. This is quite dangerous as i had lost alot of blood as the labour was so quick. Im injected with 2 lots of medication to deliver my placenta but its not coming so the midwife is pulling it out! Still under epidural thank god! Finally its over but im still bleeding really heavily so they are trying to stop the bleeding and getting loads of fluids pushed through my IV. I tore sideways (not up or down) but not too much so only had to have a couple of stitches, still cant feel anything. Imogen goes straight onto my boobs and feeds for an hour and a half! hungry girl! I was hoping to go home today but as i lost alot of blood ill have to stay overnight :( Chris had to leave at 9pm! all the men get chucked out at that time, so had to fend for myself, the midwives were crap, no-one came to see if i needed anything, its like ok uve had ur baby now deal with it! Anyway finally xmas morning and im allowed to go home, had a terrible night, as soon as Imogen went to sleep someone elses baby would cry and wake her up! Mum and Dad brought xmas dinner round to us and Imogen slept for 5 hours solid. I love being a mummy the best experience of my life and the best xmas pressie anyone could wish for, my little Angel xx

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