July
Even thought Katelyn wasn’t due til the 11th of July, when we had our OB appointment on the 8th we were already starting to get impatient, I’d been on leave from work for a week so was well rested. Dr. Barabash told us to expect the baby any day now and even joked that he’d see us after breakfast on Saturday so by Monday (the due date) and still no baby I was starting to wonder what on earth was going on. By Tuesday night I started getting what I thought was contractions, but then again I was telling David that I was having contractions for the past four days (I guess this was my way of willing the baby to come).
I called my Mum at 7pm to tell her that I thought I was having contractions and asked her to come over to look after Kimberly. The contractions weren’t very intense was I didn’t expect to be giving birth that night. When my Mum arrived we were surfing the net, and didn’t leave the house till about 8pm, even then I thought we would be told to go home by the midwives. When I got to the hospital the midwives asked me to fill in some forms which I wasn’t happy about as when I gave birth to Kimberly as the France Perry I was usher straight to the delivery suite.
They hooked me up to the monitor that confirmed that I was in fact having contractions about 4 minutes apart and lasting for about 30 seconds. After about half an hour of questions and form filling Dr. Barabash arrived, everyone was still very relaxed. My waters were broken which caused the contractions to intensify, I was given gas to relieve the pain, I wanted to asked for stronger pain relief as the contractions seemed to be coming every 30 seconds and lasting for over a minute. But before I could say anything I was told that the baby’s head was out and to stop pushing, so I gave birth in about 10 minutes from the time my waters were broken.
Katelyn weighed 3.170 kg (7 pounds) and was 49 cm long, head circumference 34 cm. She is absolutely beautiful and is a very settled baby, after the midwives cleaned her up I feed her and then we were ready for visitors. Rob was again the first to arrive followed by Gran and Pop. Both David and I are more relaxed the second time around and my fear of not loving Katelyn as much as I love Kimberly was dispelled as soon as I saw Katelyn. She is just so beautiful and she is such a good baby, she settles easily and seems very relaxed.
Kimberly is coping with having a little sister extremely well, she knows that she needs to be gentle with Katelyn and although on occasion when we’re holding Katelyn she’ll ask for attention she has been reasonable and we have been able to distract her. She is very protective of Katelyn and doesn’t like it when people that she isn’t familiar with hold Katelyn, she tell them “no, my sister”. She knows that Katelyn has come my me and when I ask her where has mummy’s tummy gone she’ll point to Katelyn and say “there”.
As with Kimberly I have a good birth experience and was almost ready to leave the hospital the next day, but I stayed for three nights and came home Friday morning. So far everything is going well, there’s lots of washing to do as Katelyn manages to spit up on almost everything.
I called my Mum at 7pm to tell her that I thought I was having contractions and asked her to come over to look after Kimberly. The contractions weren’t very intense was I didn’t expect to be giving birth that night. When my Mum arrived we were surfing the net, and didn’t leave the house till about 8pm, even then I thought we would be told to go home by the midwives. When I got to the hospital the midwives asked me to fill in some forms which I wasn’t happy about as when I gave birth to Kimberly as the France Perry I was usher straight to the delivery suite.
They hooked me up to the monitor that confirmed that I was in fact having contractions about 4 minutes apart and lasting for about 30 seconds. After about half an hour of questions and form filling Dr. Barabash arrived, everyone was still very relaxed. My waters were broken which caused the contractions to intensify, I was given gas to relieve the pain, I wanted to asked for stronger pain relief as the contractions seemed to be coming every 30 seconds and lasting for over a minute. But before I could say anything I was told that the baby’s head was out and to stop pushing, so I gave birth in about 10 minutes from the time my waters were broken.
Katelyn weighed 3.170 kg (7 pounds) and was 49 cm long, head circumference 34 cm. She is absolutely beautiful and is a very settled baby, after the midwives cleaned her up I feed her and then we were ready for visitors. Rob was again the first to arrive followed by Gran and Pop. Both David and I are more relaxed the second time around and my fear of not loving Katelyn as much as I love Kimberly was dispelled as soon as I saw Katelyn. She is just so beautiful and she is such a good baby, she settles easily and seems very relaxed.
Kimberly is coping with having a little sister extremely well, she knows that she needs to be gentle with Katelyn and although on occasion when we’re holding Katelyn she’ll ask for attention she has been reasonable and we have been able to distract her. She is very protective of Katelyn and doesn’t like it when people that she isn’t familiar with hold Katelyn, she tell them “no, my sister”. She knows that Katelyn has come my me and when I ask her where has mummy’s tummy gone she’ll point to Katelyn and say “there”.
As with Kimberly I have a good birth experience and was almost ready to leave the hospital the next day, but I stayed for three nights and came home Friday morning. So far everything is going well, there’s lots of washing to do as Katelyn manages to spit up on almost everything.
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