Dylan Daniel Ewing was born on Thursday the 12th February, 2004

I woke up with contractions that morning at about 9:00.
By 4pm, I had decided it was time to go to the hospital, so my husband drove me there with my best friend.
When I arrived, they examined me and said I was about 2 1/2 centremeters dialated.
They checked my blood preassure but didn't like how high it was so they attatched a monitor across my belly to meassure the baby's heartbeat.
His heartbeat was drastically slowing down with each contraction. At this point I got really scared for him and burst into tears.
They decided to break my waters and attach one of those sensor things to his head. There was a lot of fluid that came out when they did this, it ended up all over the bed and dripped onto the floor in a nice puddle.
The contractions really started to get strong by this point and they gave me the gas which I though was horrible because it made me really dizzy and I was having trouble breathing slowly and calmly because I was so worried about what was happening. I couldn't stop my legs from shaking, that was probably from my blood preassure being so high.
The doctors weren't happy with things so they wheeled me into the opperating room, gave me a spinal block and gave me an emergency caesarean.
I was so scared about having a caesarean but it was a huge relief to have the spinal block and not to feel the contractions anymore.
My husband was with me the whole time and the surgens were really good about telling me what was going on and keeping me calm through the whole thing.
It really is an amazing thing to hear your new baby cry for the first time.

They took him and put him in an incubator thing over night because they thought he was breathing a bit too quickly which I guess was part of the shock from being born and distressed.

Everything turned out alright in the end, we both recovered really well from everything and my blood preassure reterned to normal okay. Aparently I had got pre-eccampsia at the last minute which is was complicated things.

We are both doing really well, he is now 9 days old and has settled down into things and is putting on weight nicely.