Emapot1
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Thanks everyone! She's such a good baby. She's feeding well and has just stared to become a bit more alert and wakes up a bit more. I'm back at work which has adjusted everything back to normality but to be honest for me it works really well as I was worried about pnd and how I'd feel and cope, so by being back at work (family business so just me and husband) it has helped in a great way. It bought back lots of emotion with annabel but I'm coping with this fine and dh is as well. We're besotted with holly and Henry's forever giving her kisses and sniffing her. Oddly he has to smell her all the time. I'm sure this is territory. The only other thing I would say is the pain reliever - I used has and air for most of the labour. I think I got to about 9cm (without knowing) and then said I wanted a sedative so I could sleep meaning I had more energy to push. They gave me a half measure as I said I didn't want to be out of it. I had the injection and then within minutes of this I started to get loads of pressure. I then realised the baby was coming and I thankfully had my head on to get pushing so she popped out or should I say she flew out. It was only then that the damn sedative started working and I was a bit out of it. Not sick or anything but not quite there with focusing. The crash team then came in with lots of peads and doctors because she started signing and grunting which although sounds lovely, is not a good sign. She was closely monitored for 24houra and the pead doctor came over with her about 20 minutes later and said you have a perfect lovely little baby and I am not concerned about her at all. I literally broke down crying being so thankful she was ok. I just remember looking at Adam and saying not again, please don't let something happen to holly as well. I wasn't sure at that moment of time how I was going to cope if I lost holly too. All I could think about was annabel and how it shattered my heart and seeing holly in the incubator with loads of docs gave me a horrible feeling of fear. Anyway 12 hours after exclusive bf, she chocked and then bought up a horrific amount of amniotic fluid which must have been on her lungs making her sign. We were discharged and came home. We're now in day 8 and she's doing beautifully. I still worry every hour that somethings wrong but that's probably normal for me. The labour from 4cm to 10cm (active to transition) was 5.5 hours, which was a great experience. The induction took 2 days which consisted of 7 sweeps and 1 low acting prostaglandin pessary which actually fell out so mainly my labour was very natural. 'If' I were to have another baby (we've spoken about it and never say never) I would not bother with pethidine and just go for the gas and air. It's not worth the hang over waiting for the drug to drop out of your system. X
