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My story stated with my stressed husband taking a sleeping tablet at around 7pm

Written on 18/12/2008 14:01:36 by Keryn

My story stated with my stressed husband taking a sleeping tablet at around 7pm! I then went into labour about an hour later. My due date was the next day and David wanted to get plenty of rest for the big moment. I realised that the baby was on the way and organised David to time the contactions - unfortunatly he was falling asleep between my 3 minute contractions. Mum drove me to the hospital to meet the midwife and David took our daughter next door to stay with a friend as organised. He then drove the 15 minutes to meet us at the hospital - neither he nor I am sure how he made it! All was progressing well with the labour but my poor husband could not keep his eyes open - I wished I had that same problem. Fortunately for him and I had a close friend at the birth along with my mother, so my very tired husband went to sleep in what he thought was the waiting room, but what was, in fact, the hall way of the maternity ward - he got some very strange looks form midwifes, nurses and new parents! I even managed the short walk to the hall to take a look and have a giggle! A little much needed light relief!
My labour progressed well and the support I received from my mother, friend and midwife was amazing! At 3.30am I was ready to push and more than ready to get that baby out! It was at this point that David was roused from his slumber and helped with the momentous job of giving birth to our daughter. Keita was born at 4.01am on the 11 Jan 2006 - a healthy wee girl - and not nearly as tired as her father!

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