Georgina's Birth Story

Well, where do I start...

I woke up on Saturday morning at about 7am with a bit of a twinge!

By about 7.30am I thought "Well, I'd better start timing these!!"

By 8.30am the twinges were coming every ten minutes, but weren't very strong or painful. I thought I'd wait to see if they'd continue till 9am until I called Ma and Pa. Well 9am came and the twinges were still there!! I made a very casual call to Andria, talked about the weather etc etc and then Andria asked "Any pains yet?" and I said "Yes, every ten minutes for the last couple of hours!" Andria took it very calmly and said they'd be on their merry way, all a bit surreal really!!! LOL

By 11am Andria and Bambos had arrived and the twinges were every 6 minutes or so apart. Bambos looked like he was going to explode!!! He was so excited!! I told him to calm down or else he couldn't come to the hospital!!! LOL

We sat and watched Scary Movie 3 (this is how relaxed we were!!!) and by about 1.30pm the twinges were about every 2 minutes apart and we decided to get going to the hospital.

Still, at this point, the pains were okay and I could breath through them! Bambos got all excited again and decided to kill us all in the car by driving on the right hand side of the road instead of the left!!! Funny!!

We got to the hospital at 2pm, was checked at 3pm and I was 5cm gone!! Half way there!!

By this point, I needed a bit of gas and air but felt so in control still!! Still very calm, mum and dad were brilliant!!!

The pains got stronger and I needed more gas and air as time went on. I closed my eyes in between contractions to try and concentrate!! I heard Bambos say "She's really out of it!" I wasn't though!! I was just concentrating!!! I had a hand on each side to squeeze to death every time there was a contraction, it was wonderful to know they were both there.

At about 4pm I felt that my waters were going to break and they did!! SPLASH!! It made everyone jump and I think I panicked Andria and Bambos, it always looks such a lot of water!!! LOL

Well, then it started and I needed to push pretty much straight away!! I could feel Georgina moving down quickly. I was so much more aware of things this time than when I was having Charlotte! I could feel when her head was about to come out, Andria comfirming it by saying "She's got hair!!" Even with everything happening, Andria and Bambos never left my side for a second!!

The time before my last contraction was painful, all I kept saying was "ow, ow, ow, ow" and then came the last contraction and I pushed like crazy!!! I knew she was coming and that it was over!!

The midwife placed her on my belly while Bambos cut the cord and I can remember looking at Andria and saying "there you go matey". As soon as the cord was cut, she was given to Andria, her face was a picture, something I'll never forget!!!

I remember taking a deep breath and saying "Eh By Gum!" and I still felt okay!!! LOL

I can now officially say that it was the best pregnancy, labour, birth in the world!!!

When can I start again...?