Little T is lovely, feeding and sleeping well with 2-4 hours between feeds.
I don't seem to have much time for blogging or commenting at the moment but I am reading blogs sometimes to try and keep up with all your news.
My parents arrived yesterday which is lovely, T has (of course) totally charmed them already.
Will try and post more soon.
Thanks for all the best wishes. It was a very long labour but Theo was eventually born at 18.46 on Wednesday 30th. We spent most of yesterday sleeping and got home from the hospital today. I'll post more soon.
I'm just back from my monitoring appointment - blood pressure and urine test both fine.
They also did an internal exam and apparently I was 3cm dilated but by the time she'd finished rummaging around up there it was more like 4cm. Oh and there is some bleeding as a result too. She said "I hope you don't have any plans for today" so hopefully it won't be much longer.
I also had a half hour heart and contractions monitoring and all looks good. If nothing has happened by Friday I'll get a call with instructions on coming in for an induction. The good news is the midwives are back at work.
This morning we got the phone call that we've been expecting for a while, the one to tell us that S's Grandma died at 2 o'clock this morning. She never really rallied after the op to repair her broken hip and it seems that she had been going downhill for a while before that. Her appetite has been small for a while and getting her to eat anything at all has been increasingly difficult. I guess on some level she had decided enough was enough. She was 89 and had watched 4 children and 8 grandchildren grow and produce 7 great-grandchildren. While I am sad that she won't meet our child maybe her work was done. She has been frail for a long time, she wasn't able to make it to our wedding and her quality of life wasn't great. So Dolly, thanks for loving S and me and welcoming me into your family - you'll be missed.
As for the other end of life things are quiet today. Yesterday I woke at 6 to strong contractions and these continued at fairly regular intervals until about 11.30 before tailing off. By bed time I was getting maybe one contraction an hour. The contractions did manage to dislodge my mucus plug so hopefully there will be some more action soon. I have a monitoring appointment at the hospital today at 11 so we'll see what they say.
