pap- you are so busted!!! i love that little bear jacket but they didn't have either size that i would need. how annoying! some gorgeous girls' stuff though
ok..jimmy part 2
alright, by now everyone had talked me down off the ledge of madness. the ob said she would leave me to relax for a while and come back and check soon. the midwife came and checked on me constantly, they dimmed the lights and justin and i just tried to relax. ob came back at about 11pm and checked on me- said everything was going well, cervix was dilating but we weren't quite there yet. she said she was going home for a bit (lives 10mins from hospital) and told midwife to let me start pushing at about 12.30am if i was ready and she would come back about 1am.
12.30am midwife comes in and gets me to start doing some pushing- quite weird as i can't really feel much but i just go with it and pretend i'm doing a poo. after 2 contractions she says 'ok, just leave it there for a minute, i'll call the ob'. she goes off to use the phone, comes back in, has another look then calls in another midwife as back up, just in case the ob doesn't make it back in time. i'm starting to get a bit confused about what's going on at this point..but no-one seems too stressed..
the ob comes in...has a look..says 'Oh my god!!' puts on her gloves, tells me to push. i do one push and jimmy pops out!
he looked so tiny, i couldn't believe it! they did a quick check then put him on my chest. i was looking down on him and kissing him and telling him it was ok. i couldn't believe all his hair. everyone was saying 'what's his name?' and justin was saying 'he's little jimmy!'
the ob checked me out and said 'there's no tears, there's not even a graze, you did so well!!!'
after they weighed him and cleaned him up a little i lay on my side and breastfed him. he just felt so little, after breastfeeding lewis until he was 14months you know? it felt like i was feeding a tiny little possum
by now it was about 2am or something, justin sent text messages out, while he was sucking on his gas pipe..jimmy slept in the bassinette next to us and i lay there waiting for the epidural to wear off and watching over jimmy. we didn't get much sleep, we were just so happy and amazed by everything.
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