Another tangent... I love your girl's name!!! We called our little girl Xanthe Grace and people are always commenting on how beautiful her name is .

We haven't decided on a middle name but Grace is one of the top two on our list. I think it is very pretty.


I don't know much about sterile water injections . . . I think I will have a look into them. I have had an epidural in my last 2 pg and didn't feel a thing when they gave me the local in my spine for that - I don't know how sterile water injection pain would compare in normal circumstances but in posterior labour the pain in my back has been so bad, I didn't feel anything else they were doing to me so I might not feel those either . I am normally not very good with needles and especially injections but labour is a whole different ball game. I am thinking I want to avoid an epidural this time but I am leaving my options open.