hi folks

i had my baby girl, olivia by emergency c-section on the 7th of september at 22:12 and she was 7lb12oz and despite her dramatic and surprise entrance to the world she was perfect apart from covered in poo! lovely.

After having contactions for 3hrs at 3-6mins apart and lasting a min, as a first time mum was reluctant to go to the hospital as didnt fancy being there for another 10-15 hrs, but as hadnt felt babe move since my contractions started we went to the hospital expecting to get monitered and sent home. on arrival went to the midwife dept and she had difficulty finding a heartbeat and when she did it was only going from 50-90per min when it should be between 130-160 so was transferred over to the consultants side, so much for my water birth. when we got over there with every contraction the heartbeat went down and took longer to come back. Then all hell broke loose doctors and nurses started running in and out of the room and we were told that baby had to come now, less than an hour after arriving at the hospital i was in theatre and she was born screaming her head off. Her dad and i were thrilled that all was ok, we stayed in hospital for 4 days and i was desperate to get out. As we live near the coast it was amazing to get out for a walk showing off our new daughter.

She is now 4wks old and is 9lb4oz and it is all in length. We are doing both breastfeeding and bottle feeding as this fits in with our lifestyle well and as she is growing so much it is obviously not doing her any harm. She has changed so much and has already lost that newborn look. It has been the most amazing time and after having waited almost 5yrs for her to come it has been everything and more that i could have wished for.