Hi there, I haven’t posted in here for a while but with good reason!.....take a seat......my baby has arrived!

(I have just copied from the Birth announcements rather than re-write
On Friday night (19.8.05) I went into an early labour and gave birth to our beautiful daughter on Sunday 21.8.05 at 7.25 am via emergency c-section.

Kyla Maree Kathryn was born at 28 weeks and 6 days and weighed 1.445kg (3lb 1oz).

It was a pretty scary experience. I started spotting on Friday night (19.8.05) and was cramping all night. Sat morning I discovered that I was bleeding quite heavily and so went into knox private where they gave me some medication in an attempt to stop contractions. Unfortunately this didn’t work, so I was sent via ambulance to the Royal womens.
I laboured all through Saturday and after ultra sound and profuse bleeding they discovered that I had a low lying placenta that had abrupted. I was 8 cm dilated but bubs couldn’t get out as the placenta was in the way. For some reason, I had never been alerted about the placenta and the doctor was also not advised. Had he tried to break my waters our little girl would have died. Luckily he decided to do an emergency c-section as my blood pressure was only 90/60 - I was put under general anesthetic and it took only a few minutes for Kyla to arrive.

She was sent straight to NICU but is doing really well. She is off C pap and should be on full feeds tonight at 12pm. She’s a beautiful little trooper.

So to you girls with NICU babies – I’m sure I’ll be speaking with you soon!