Thank you guys for all your messages of congratulations.
Katherine is beautiful and doing really well. She came in a big rush as the doctors were concerned about her. Basically- I went into hospital on the weekend due to lack of fetal movement and while I was there hooked up to a CTG, Katherine's heartrate slowed down to below 90, she did it twice just to scare mummy to death and then picked up again. By the time the on call OB had got to the hospital (the midwives called him in a panic when the heartrate went down) I had 15 mins of perfect trace so he decided to keep me on monitoring rather than do an emergency c-section then and there.
I was hooked up for 16 hours and she behaved herself perfectly!! We went in to see my OB on the Monday and he did an ultrasound. Unfortunately the US showed that Katherine's rate of growth had slowed dramatically. She had gone from 57th percentile in week 33 to 34th in week 36. They were conceerned that maybe she wasn't getting enough nutrients from my placenta any more so scheduled me for a c-section on Tuesday. Glad we did as after the op, my doctor said it looked like my placenta was starting to break down. So- Katherine was born at 3pm on Tuesday with Apgars of 9 and 10. She has defied everyone's odds and has needed no special care at all!! She is home with us now and making our lives completely blissfull!!!
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