Welcoming the Gremlin - 29.05.09 (loooong!)

BG, thank you so much for sharing your story with us. What an amazing journey, from start to finish. I've been following your journey for the last year or so, from afar!

Congratulations on the birth of Emerald. She is gorgeous and you did such an amazing job :D

Thanks for the story, congratulations to you and your husband!

Welcome Emerald! (Love your name).

BG what a story, good on ya for being so forth right. U knew ur body. Fantastic job and congrats again.

Congratulations!

I'm sure there's not a dry eye in here BG. You have had incredible courage and endurance throughout this whole journey and your body fought you every step of the way. Your strength of mind gave you the wisdom to see out your final decisions. You were in control, you carried this baby to full term and suffered every step of the way to fight for her. You needn't ever have doubted the amazing job you did and I would have taken every drug on the shelf! You are a true inspiration. To you and your wonderfully supportive DH, congratulations, thanks for sharing and enjoy your cherished Emerald.xoxo

What a fantastic birth story BG, Emerald will love it when she's old enough!
You did so well, well done hun!!

bloody Nora!!!!! Pass me another tissue please

Honey I am so proud of you! You have done it....your a mama now for ever

BG - thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful and emotional story. Congratulations. And WELCOME EMERALD. What an amazing mummy she has. She's a lucky lucky girl.

Oh BG what a wonderfully written account of everything.

Yours has been one pregnancy i have followed through these boards. I am so happy for you
Congratulations Mummy

awww that's beautiful! She's adorable!! Well done!

Woo hoo Woo hoooooo I have been waiting for this to happen and because I haven't been on here for a awhile I nearly missed it : )

One very huge congrats honey. I read your story and like most others was in tears. You did so well and battled for so long and I am very glad that you now have your little Emerald. I love the name you guys chose for her. She is your precious gem. Now you get to treasure her for life. Well done BG and hubby

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... and he told me he was proud of me and what i'd achieved. he agreed that making a stand about my own health being just as important as the baby was one of the strongest things he'd had a patient do in a long time, and said he regretted he'd not been the Ob on call the night before as he'd have made sure i felt more supported through that part of my labour.

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Just re-read this BG, I'm sure I did read it a while back but in re-reading, the bit above stuck out for me... when I read that I got goosebumps. What an amazing woman you are!

thanks OP! i don't feel amazing - i just feel like me!

isn't it funny how you forget what you have achieved until you read back through it again? i haven't really thought about this until today when i was looking for the correct link for my sig. i remember it all, but i needed a reminder of what we managed to do (apart from the little red head reminder that is hiding under the blanket on the couch beside daddy, cos mummy mentioned bed lol)

That's lovely hun.
You should be proud!

Enjoy that little red head...
xoxoxo Hippy Mum

Thank you so much for sharing your story, isn't it funny how we are all on the same journey with the same out come yet we all travel different ways.

What a great story. You sure did an amazing job throughout your very long labor and what a fantastic outcome, a beautiful precious happy baby.

i thought I had read all the birth stories on BB but I know I never read this. What a wonderful job you did and so strong standing up for yourself that way. I take my hat off to you BG