Our Ickle girly arrived safe and sound into the arms of the paramedics! oops indeed a speedy arrival of 1hr 11mins. We love love love her... She is pink, but bright and bold with it! She loves her girly cheeky funky tees and she looks super fab in the bright sleepsuits.
The Birth of Georgia Rae Clifford – Thursday 4th March 2010 8.41am 9lbs 1.5oz at home.
> > I had been having some niggles for a few days but as I kept telling
> > everyone ‘nothing to write home about!’. I knew she had
> > descended low into my pelvis as was really getting sharp ligament pa
> > ins in the tops of my legs and my hips were quite sore. I kept reli
> > giously checking my knickers for a show or waters. Nothing.
> >
> > On weds night I was half tempted to go to my weekly yoga but just
> > felt not quite right. I had a few pains through the evening but
> > nothing more than a dull back ache. I went to bed about 11pm. At
> > 1am my son Finlay woke me with quite a start as he was screaming in
> > bed, very unlike him and as I got up to see him I had a
> > contraction. It was a mild one but having gone through the birth
> > process once before I knew it was different to the other pains I had
> > been getting. I proceeded to get up about 8 times to his cry each
> > time he would just get straight back into bed, and each time I could
> > feel the contractions about every 10mins. They were picking up but
> > felt very manageable and inside I was a excited that I was going to
> > meet my little girl at some point that day.
> >
> > At 3.30am Finlay finally went to sleep and I lay there on and off
> > snoozing through mild contractions. At 6.10am I decided to get up
> > and go to the toilet. I noticed a bit of a show and my knickers and
> > pjs were wet but in a bit of a daze didn’t think much of it. I went
> > to the bedroom to get a clean pair of knickers and realised there w
> > as water trickling down my legs. I woke Frazer my husband and said
> > I think my waters have gone.
> >
> > We were very chilled and said ‘ok cool lets ring my mum (who lives i
> > n London) and Frazer’s dad who was due to pick Finlay up at 9.30am a
> > nyway but to come a bit earlier, maybe 8am. We then rang the labour
> > ward and Frazer explained my waters had broken and I was having mil
> > d contractions. They said the homebirth midwife is on duty at 7am a
> > nd would call us. So off went Frazer downstairs to blow up the pool
> > and get a cuppa... he came back and the contractions had picked up
> > a little so I put on my tens. He was off again getting all the bits
> > ready downstairs for the day ahead... or so we thought!!!
> >
> > I was breathing through well and using the tens but the contractions
> > quickly gathered momentum and soon I was on all fours in the bed,
> > still breathing through but feeling their intensity. The
> > contractions were about every 4mins and lasting a minute. I said to
> > Frazer has the midwife called as it was now about 7.30am. At this
> > point I kept feeling like I needed a poo and infact went to the loo
> > were my bowels opened. I thought o that’s good to have a clear out.
> > I went back to the bedroom but just couldn’t get in the zone, it a
> > ll felt very intense and I kept saying to Frazer I need another poo!
> > !! I went back to the bathroom and as I sat on the loo the realisati
> > on that actually I need to push. I thought I was going mad and coul
> > d not possibly be at that stage. I knelt on the floor by the bath a
> > nd kept saying I need to push.
> > Frazer was on hold with the labour ward, eventually he was saying to
> > the women my wife is saying she needs to push... she advised him to
> > ring 999 and get an ambulance!! I could hear him call and say ‘ambul
> > ance please’... I remember thinking o my god he is so dramatic this
> > is going to be embarrassing!... all in between overwhelming urges to
> > push.
> >
> > The next chain of events is a slight haze but my mum suddenly
> > appeared next to me, obviously not expecting to have found me in
> > such a state of labour by this point it is about 7.50am, then out
> > the corner of my eye I saw a green uniform and the voice of an
> > angel... this voice guided me in the most beautiful way. She kept
> > asking me to move out the bathroom (our bathroom is not big enough
> > to swing a cat let alone birth a baby) apparently for the next five
> > minutes I swung from swearing profusely to repeatedly apologising.
> > I then somehow got to my feet and walked to the end of my bed where
> > I knelt down and with about 5 strong pushes crowned my baby’s head..
> > . my mum was to the right and saying ‘o my god I can see the
> > head’, Frazer was in front saying in my ear ‘your amazing, I love
> > you’ and the softly spoken voice was guiding me from behind that on
> > the next contraction I would meet my baby!
> >
> > She came out with a woosh and all my waters that drenched the
> > paramedic, she had a very loud cry and only in that that moment did
> > I allow myself to believe it was all ok. I turned and looked at the
> > paramedic and said ‘what’s your name?’ she said ‘Amanda’
> > and I said ‘thank you’. She smiled and then we laughed.
> >
> > The paramedics were amazing they left the cord pulsating whilst I
> > wiped off my top and placed Georgia straight on my boob which she
> > loved straight away.
>
> >
> > Throughout all this not only did Finlay stay asleep but my father in
> > law had been sat downstairs listening to the low groans of
> > childbirth followed by the cry of a new baby, ‘truly magical’ he
> > said.
> >
> > About 10 mins after she was born the two midwives turned up... we
> > were all in the bedroom when I heard Andy the tall green paramedic
> > say ‘hello who are you then?’ and the voice say ‘Hi i am
> > Finlay!’. My mum lept up and went in his room where he asked to get
> > dressed and then went downstairs without asking where mummy or dadd
> > y was. A sixth sense that he knew he needed to be good. They went
> > to the park and left me to deliver placenta and get a few stitches.
>
> >
> > As with quick deliveries the placenta sometimes goes into shock and
> > doesn’t come away... so after 50 mins i had the injection and 10 min
> > s later after a slight worry it wasn’t coming out I managed to find
> > some energy to push it out... the threat of a trip to hospital gave
> > me momentum.
> >
> > So my birth plan of wallowing in my birth pool with candles and ting
> > tong music went slightly off track and in replacement was something
> > more like out of take a break! I feel though it was a very good and
> > positive birth experience. Officially logged as 1hr 11mins!!!!!
> >
> > My little lady is so adorable and very calm and contented,
> > unsurprisingly she isn’t bothered by commotion in the house and her
> > big brother banging and chatting in her ear all day. I am so in lov
> > e and so happy, motherhood is truly the best.
> >
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