The arrival of Ambah Lyn

So it all started on Saturday 24th July with pre-labour pains. It was awful as I thought it was the real deal, but unfortunately it was not meant to be. By 3pm, they had all gone and I slept for a couple of hours. That night during dinner etc I was not getting any pains and bub was moving around heaps, so I was convinced I was still way off from having her.
10:00pm that night, a massive contraction hit. Another one 15 minutes later. They were 15 minutes apart for the first hour, then at 11:00pm they were suddenly 3 minutes apart, and very intense. DH and I decided we'd head up to the hospital at this point and arrived at 11:45pm. Internal at midnight showed I was 5cm dilated and bub was fully engaged. I jumped in the shower straight away and the contractions were now every 2 minutes lasting 60-90 seconds. Ouchies! At 12:57am my waters broke and showed bub had done a poo. I was put on the bed for monitoring. At 1:00am, I turned around on the bed (I had the bedhead up and was leaning over the pillows) and felt a huge urge to push. I didn't actually have to push though, my body and bub did it all and at 1:02am she was here! A whopping 2 minute delivery. The cord was extremely short and I could barely lift her off the bed, so we cut the cord straight away. I then turned around and sat down with her for cuddles. She latched on within minutes of being born and the cord was cut. I didn't receive any grazing or stitches either :dance:

Total labour: 3 hours, 2 minutes
Weight: 3.53kg / 7lb 12oz
HC: 34.5cm
length: 51cm

Thanks for reading :)

What an awesome birth story! Congratulations on your baby girl :hug:

Awesome birth story!! Short cords are a pain arent they, must be a 3rd bub thing because Stellans was the same! Cant wait to see pics of Ambah; congrats again!!!

Wow, that was a fast labour! Well done you super-birthing queen!

Thanks for sharing your story :D

Congratulations!!!

Wow quick birth!!

Enjoy your princess
xoxo

You did an awesome job :D

Well done and Congratulations :D

Wow that was quick. Congratulations and your bubba girl! :cheer:

Congrats again and what a super job you did birthing your little princess xxx

Well done Jodi!! Congratulations again :D

Such a lovely story! Thank you for sharing

What a bloody quick labour! lol

Such a beautiful story hun

Thanks so much for sharing xox

Jodi, sooo happy for you!!! You are amazing, thank you for sharing the very quick birth of your darling Ambah. Fantastic! Hope you are enjoying your babymoon with DH and your three gorgeous princesses! :)

Speedy! Congrats and thanks for sharing :)

Congratulations Jodi, thank you for sharing, welcome earthside, Ambah!

Ah, beautiful. Congratulations!

well done on the speedy delivery! how lucky are you, good thing you guys got to the hossy when you did.
hope you're enjoying your newborn period xoxo

Nice work Mumma! Welcome Ambah :) xo
hope you are all enjoying the newborn cuddles

Congrats Jodi! She's beautiful btw xx

huge congrats huni. you did awesome xxxx

Congrats hun!!! You did well!!!!!!

Huge congrats Jodi!! Great story - you did a fantastic job!

Congratulations, I am glad everything went well for you and you are both doing well!!!!! Take care and now it's my turn!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Jodi - what an awesome birth!!!!

what a beautiful birth story :) congratulations hun xx

Wow.....talk about quick! lol Glad to hear all is well. GREEN with envy here!!! lol

xxxx

Wow! Congratulations!

Congrats to you all!! Welcome earth side Ambah xx

Congratulations jodi, great job!

congrats hun. i was only thinkin the other day i should check and see if there was a BA announcement for you.

Wow, very quick!! Well done!! :)

Wow, what a labour!!!

Congratulations!!

Sue x

Gosh, that was quick! Well done you :)

Congratulations Jodi - you are coming second in the NRL tipping comp by the way (the away teams have been doing you proud)