An apology and a bit of a moan ;-)
First up I need to apologise for being rubbish at communication right now, it took me an hour to write a one paragraph email on Thursday night and I haven't managed more than 140 characters in a row since then I don't think. I am reading everything and keeping up to date with people but I am guilty of not commenting or replying to messages and I am sorry about that.
I woke up on Wednesday morning with headache and dizziness and feeling rubbish all of which are signs of things going wrong with the baby or with me so I called the midwife and someone came out to see me. They did all the checks and everything was fine but they concluded that i was in early labour which sounded like good news to me :-)
I had contractions on and off all day and got no sleep Wednesday night so when it got to Thursday morning I got the kids packed off to school/nursery and called the midwife again. Tiny was born 45 mins after the midwife arrived when I had her so the midwife was quickly here to check me over just in case! After doing all her checks the midwife said things were progressing slowly so no need to panic right at that moment but to keep an eye on things and call her if I wanted to, she also informed me that if the plan was for baby to born at hospital she would have been suggesting I went in to be checked over and to have things helped along but seen as the plan is to have baby at home I should just relax as much as possible while keeping active and keep in touch with the labour ward.
My mum and dad took the day off work to come up so i didn't have to worry about school runs and such and the contractions continued all day but just as the kids went to bed they stopped!!
My mum and dad stayed over and in the morning I woke up without a sign of anything :-( and it stayed that way all day so they went home again to get sorted for Christmas.
The midwife is coming tomorrow morning to do pre Christmas checks but if i'm honest I think I've resigned myself to a post Christmas baby and I just want to focus on having fun with Shorty and Tiny and making it the best Christmas we can have (this is made less simple by the antics of the ex but he will never win because he just isn't important enough)
So yeah, I'm not in the best of moods right now and I'm slightly fed up but in reality life could be far worse and I'm really a very very lucky lady :-)
I woke up on Wednesday morning with headache and dizziness and feeling rubbish all of which are signs of things going wrong with the baby or with me so I called the midwife and someone came out to see me. They did all the checks and everything was fine but they concluded that i was in early labour which sounded like good news to me :-)
I had contractions on and off all day and got no sleep Wednesday night so when it got to Thursday morning I got the kids packed off to school/nursery and called the midwife again. Tiny was born 45 mins after the midwife arrived when I had her so the midwife was quickly here to check me over just in case! After doing all her checks the midwife said things were progressing slowly so no need to panic right at that moment but to keep an eye on things and call her if I wanted to, she also informed me that if the plan was for baby to born at hospital she would have been suggesting I went in to be checked over and to have things helped along but seen as the plan is to have baby at home I should just relax as much as possible while keeping active and keep in touch with the labour ward.
My mum and dad took the day off work to come up so i didn't have to worry about school runs and such and the contractions continued all day but just as the kids went to bed they stopped!!
My mum and dad stayed over and in the morning I woke up without a sign of anything :-( and it stayed that way all day so they went home again to get sorted for Christmas.
The midwife is coming tomorrow morning to do pre Christmas checks but if i'm honest I think I've resigned myself to a post Christmas baby and I just want to focus on having fun with Shorty and Tiny and making it the best Christmas we can have (this is made less simple by the antics of the ex but he will never win because he just isn't important enough)
So yeah, I'm not in the best of moods right now and I'm slightly fed up but in reality life could be far worse and I'm really a very very lucky lady :-)