Hi ladies :-). Guess what??? I'm a Mummy!
My waters broke at midday on Saturday, and baby boy Rossi Dirk (Daddy's name is Dirk and his family has a tradition of Daddy's name being used as the middle name) was born at 2:15am today by c-section.

Nothing went to plan, syntocin to regulate then speed up contractions, then the syntocin made them too close and unbearable, then a shot of pethidine, I only dilated to 6cm, and because I had been in labour for about 10hrs at that stage with the unbearable contractions we decided on an epidural. 4 hours later I still hadn't gone past 6cm. The baby's heartbeat fluctuated between extremely low and extremely high (due to the syntocin) so the OB advised Caesar as baby in distress.

So 14 hours of labour all up with a posterior baby, then a 10min c-section :-)

Rossi was 8lb 5oz and 53cm long. Good head of dark hair.

RENEE, YOU'RE UP NEXT!! I'll be keeping an eye out!!!

Chrissy xx