Beth's 1 minutes score was also 3, and two points of that came from having a good heart rate - 5 minute score was only 5, and that was only because she turned a nice shade of pink once she was being artificially respirated and on oxygen.

Whilst the pixie missed out on the first few minutes, I was a bit more involved - one of paeds let me help at the resus crib and during the transfer to ICU.
I took a photo when I had to leave her in the ICU to go back to the pixie that chokes me up each time I see it - Click Here - I'd been holding her hand and talking to her as the staff wired her into the crib, and she'd been pretty calm up to that point...I took the photo just as I turned to walk away.

The OB handled the whole thing really well, and had the paed resus team in the room and ready to go before the delivery finished, all without alarming the pixie in any way.

I've been trying to get the pixie to post her birth story....