Callum's Birth
It was a rough time for us as my husbands father passed away exactly one week before Christmas after a brave battle with cancer.
One week after Christmas the whole family went on a family holiday to chill out and think without being in our usual surroundings. I felt extremly tired but put it all down to the past weeks events. At the beginning of February I felt rather sick at a BBQ and thought it was something I had eaten. I was put off certain foods, drinks and smells.
That same week I was still feeling ill so I decided to go to the doctor. He took a pregnancy test and it confirmed that I was infact pregnant. I was so thrilled and overjoyed that I was going to be a parent. I drove straight to my husbands work to show him the positive pregnancy test and share the news, he wanted to leave early as he was so excited and couldn't believe what I had just told him.
We thought I was at least 3-4 weeks pregnant, but after blood tests and a scan I found that I was already 9 weeks pregnant. We calculated when I would have fallen pregnant and discovered we conceived the week before my father in law passed away. My husband and I were upset as we never found out in time to tell our sick father. After the initial finding out why I felt sick I never had any other syptoms of being pregnant, no morning sickness followed. I had a very easy pregnancy and felt more energetic than ever, my hair and skin was at it's best. I only gained an extra 6kg's and felt great the whole way through. I carried nine days over my due date and with the fantasic support during the delivery with my midwife, husband, mother, mother in law and one of my sister in laws I gave birth to the most beautiful baby girl. She is the first grandchild for my family and the 5th for my husbands family. Because of the events that accured during and just after her conception she is very special to the whole family.
We are so very blessed that she arrived at the perfect time in our lives. A part of her coming when she did, makes me feel as though God knew she would bring our hearts alot of comfort and healing. Her name means: God's gracious gift.
Truely Blessed Mum
(Auckland)
Two weeks ago (Jan 2005), I gave birth to my third child.
I had wanted to know the sex of the baby at my 19 week scan but my husband didn't want to know, we had two healthy daughters and we really wanted a son but my husband had convinced himself the baby was to be a girl. My best friend came to the scan with me and she found out what the baby was, she said she would tell me if I really really wanted to know, but I knew if I found out so early I would tell everyone.
At about 34 weeks I really wanted to know and after some convincing my friend told me. I told a few people who were close to me and I knew wouldn't tell my husband otherwise I kept it quiet.
At 37 weeks my BP started going up, I had backpain and was generally starting to have quite enough of being so hot and uncomfortable, I was hoping it wouldn't be long before labour. At every midwife visit I would hope they would just magically say I was ready to go and wouldn't see them at the clinic next week but they didn't.
Two days before having the baby I had been at the midwife and the baby's head wasn't even engaged! I could stay this way for another two weeks! I was taking the rasberry leaf tea, and wanted my husband to take me for a ride on a bumpy road, it was a long weekend coming up and our 4th wedding Anniversay and I wanted this baby out.
On Jan 26th I dropped my oldest daughter off at a freinds house for a few days, I only had my three year old at home. I had no twinges what so ever, I went home and did the gardening which is highly out of character. I had romantic night of spicy dinner and candles planned for the next night for our anniversary. I went to bed at about 10:30 that night, at 12am I woke feeling the need to go to the toilet as you do every two hours!
I went back to bed and woke half an hour later with my waters breaking, we had just moved into our first home and had a brand new bed, I wasn't gonna ruin my bed with my waters breaking, so I ran down to the bathroom. I went back to bed and woke my husband after having a few contractions, he jumped into the shower and I called the midwife, she said to call her back when my contractions were five minutes apart and lasting a minute, that could be ages I thought. So we curled up on the couch and timed the contractions, at 2am I told my husband to go get the babysitter for the daughter who was in bed.
While he was gone I called the midwife telling her the contractions were 5 minutes apart and lasting one minute, they were pretty easy I didn't even want any painkillers. Not two minutes after my husband and the babysitter got home, We needed to go but as I tried to get off the couch I had one almighty contraction and my husband had to pull me off the couch.
I walked 6 steps into the kitchen where I had another contraction and a huge huge urge to push, so naturally I did much to my husbands disgust, he was picking up the bags to put into the car, he made it to the front door, and I went to the toilet when the baby was crowning. He rang the midwife while I struggled to get my pants off, by the time my husband had run to the lounge to get the phone when the midwife rang and he ran back to me in the toilet, the baby had just come right out and he caught it by the legs just as it landed in the toilet!
I held the baby as my husband spoke to the midwife and checked me and baby, then rang the ambulance, 7 minutes later the ambulance turned up and sorted us both out, it wasn't until the operater asked what the sex of the baby was that I checked to make sure it was what my friend had told me. My husband had just delivered his third child. A son.
He weighed in at 6pd 13 oz and is just gorgeous, my husband has told everyone he knows how he caught him and how quick the labour was, he is still on a cloud somewhere. Callum Charles Lang was the perfect 4th wedding anniversary present ever!