wow love the name

What a lovely name Welcome to baby Joshua

OK so this will be a bit short but once i've had a sleep i'll probably be able to write more.

We went into hospital at 7.30am to find that my MW had been there all night and had left at 6am to go home have a rest and shower etc. So my post natal MW was working and she hooked me up to the ctg to see what was happening. The OB came in while I was on that and was all keen for things to happen either gel if still not the best or break the waters. Once my MW arrived at 9.30 she had a check and the stupid cervix had moved further back and so I needed some gel put on it. We went away for a walk and then MW checked again at 12pm to see what was happening and was 4cm dilated but the cervix was still not behaving itself. She wanted to break the waters (and thinking about it now, she should of) but I wanted to get him to break them. Went away for another walk and was getting crampy so came back to the room and had a bath. Contractions were coming along every 5 minutes and lasting about 45 seconds. So I was made to get out of the bath and MW checked again and I was still 4cm but the waters were broken. Well that started it all off. The contractions were coming think and fast, so I stood up and leaned over the bed to breath through them. I had DH putting cold cloths on my face and my MW with cold cloths on my back. Felt really good. It was about 3pm and MW checked me again and I was only 5cm but pretty much fully effaced. I was getting a bit shi**y so asked for the peth which I was allowed but only a small amount. Well it worked and relaxed me but probably a little too much . Got to 4pm and I was only 7cm and not happy. MW tried to get me to sit on the toilet (something about sitting with legs apart to help) but I couldn't get off the bed so I sat on the side of the bed, feet on a chair and hugging a pillow and DH through each contraction. Still didn't make a difference so I decided to hop in the bath and try that again. DH got shi**y with me cos he thought I had given up but hoping in the bath was the best thing as it really relaxed me and got me fully dilated at 6.15pm. While I was in the bath Dh went away and got dinner as both him and MW thought it was going to take a whiel (but I tricked them ) MW had to call DH to get him back as I was ready to push. So got out of the bath and on to the bed again to find that every time I pushed I need to do a poo. MW said that was good, but if I needed to then hop on the toilet and do it. So I sat on the toilet at 6.45 and pushed it all out , but also go to the stinging stage and paniced a little. I jumped on the bed MW had to clean me up a little (no time to wipe) to find that he was right there ready to come out. This time I wanted to see but there was no mirror in the room and I didn't want my MW to leave to get one so DH took some photos for me. My MW's phone rang and it was her B/U to say she was on her way and as that was happening she dropped the phone yelling to her he's crowning. DH grabbed the phone and even thou I didn't have the contraction to push I still did and his head came out no problem. MW offered DH to take him out but he didn't want to so I reached down and grabbed his head and pulled the rest of his body out. It was a really nice feeling to be able to do that and my MW said that when it comes down to it "I" did birth my baby. So he arrived at 7.08pm, 9lb 4oz (I still don't believe that he was that big as he looks smaller that Andrew when he was born).

Now his name is Joshua Gareth. We had a few names picked that we liked (and would agree on) but he didn't look like any of the others (we had William and Nicholas) and Gareth is one of DH's middle names. He is feeding really well and sleeping good. We were in a single room for the first night and then moved to a double as there were a few c sections yesterday. Got another person in the bed next to me at about 1am and her baby was crying the whole night, I was so glad to leave this morning. I have some pics but haven't up loaded any yet. Will do that hopefully in the next few days - promise will get some on. Ok so it wasn't all that short in the end sorry.

Congratulations