Yay - I'm back!!! Wow I've missed you guys. Everything is good at our end finally. We got home last Thursday, way too long in hospital but to cut a long story short Noah had jaundice and was then on antibiotics for an infection from my waters being broken for so long (will work on my birth story!), he also lost a lot of weight because of feeding problems - breastfeeding is SO HARD! Anyway we are home now, back up to birth weight and going well. Can see why sleep deprivation is used as a torture method!

OK - L&B storu very quickly. Membranes ruptured at 7pm on the Thursday night, had light contractions from 2-9am getting to 8 minutes apart. Midwife arrived and contractions stopped dead... Got to 7pm Friday night and because it was now 24 hours since membrane rupture we had to go to hospital to be put on antibiotics. Got there about 11pm and hooked up to monitors etc. Had some fairly regular tough going contractions all night, some one on top of the other but still going nowhere. Labour was all in my back so felt like Noah was trying to come out my anus!! Wouldn't you know it contractions stopped again in the morning! Went in to be hooked up to syntocinon drip at 11.45am (2cms dilated by now) and laboured until 7pm, an internal here showed I had only dilated to 4cms. I had a breakdown here as I thought I had been coping so well, basically they needed to crank the drip right up - contractions became too much after no sleep for two nights so called for epidural. Laboured for another couple of hours but another internal showed no further progress and Noah's head still moving around a lot trying to find the way out! Was now 50 hours since waters broke so wheeled into theatre for c-section. Was a big relief to get him out and see that he was perfect. They were laughing in theatre at the size of him and the fact it took a couple of goes to get him out via c-section! All in all it was about as far removed as possible from our original birth plan but still a positive experience to finally have our wee miracle in our arms.

Anyway I will write up my story properly soon but that's our labour in a nutshell.

Hope you guys are all well - look forward to more prcious babies arriving over the next few weeks.

XX