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Baby's Here! Mini Birth Story

Posted by Maggie Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:40:00 GMT

This is the abbreviated birth story, I will post a more detailed one later, for those interested.

As you know, I’ve had pre labor for quite some time. Then it started getting worse, I actually had strong contractions for a whole night! I was very excited, but when morning came they were gone. I was then getting discouraged and thinking I would be pregnant forever, I certainly wasn’t going to believe contractions to indicate labor. But then the following night my water broke! I was sooo excited, I knew I was going to have a baby within 24 hours! I tried to go to bed, but was too excited, so we watched some TV until the contractions got to where I needed to concentrate. We then called the midwife to come. Things were going quite well, until I thought it was time to push and it wasn’t. I broke down several times after that, but the Lord was good and helped me through,not too long after that I was holding our brand new, 9 lb, 20”, baby girl (we’ll be calling her Princess Peach here)! Almost everyone had guessed she would be a boy, and no one thought she would be so big!

It was great having her at home, even if I did question it more than a few times during the last couple hours. John was great support and it was great having Mom there too. On more than one occasion I had John whispering to me and stroking my hair, someone else putting counter pressure on my back and a third rubbing my feet! What a blessing having so much support.

Princess Olive is very excited about her baby sister, the night after she was born, Princess Olive was up every time she cried and just wanted to be in bed with us and look at her. When she came back home to meet her little sister, she brought Mommy roses and baby a little toy. It’ll be fun to see them get to know each other more.