It's a GIRL ...!!!!

Aaleaya Janet Kahikatea Newth... My birth story starts 10 days overdue, on the Monday I found myself at the obstetricians as the I saw him at my 40 week appt and he had booked me in for an induction the following Saturday making me 14 days over. Upon having the weekend to ponder this I became very uptight and 3 stretch and sweeps later there was progress but not a lot. I thought about it more and more as with Kai he was almost 2 weeks over and had pre-eclampsia and I was induced went through 6 hours of labour to fully dilated but due to fetal distress and my heart rate going through the roof they decided on an emergency c-section. It was all very scary and everything was happening so quickly we barely had time to think about anything. This time I didn’t want to go through that or chance going through that again it was traumatic and I felt totally robbed of the ‘birth experience’. So I told the OB I wasn’t prepared to go through with the induction and that I would prefer to be booked for a c-section and hopefully with the stress and pressure off I may go into natural labour over the course of the next couple of days. He had tried to ring the hospital to organise the c-section and wasn’t able to speak to the lady so sent me home and said he would ring with the details but didn’t think it would be possible before the end of the week …. Once I got home there was a call from the hospital and the lady was lovely and said, as the words rang through my ears for hours later as it all sunk in .. ‘the only place we have available is in the morning I’m afraid’!!! I freaked and Massey said my face dropped!!! So that was it we were off to pre-op straight to the hospital and have blood tests etc. We were told to be back at 7am and I was first off!! We went to Mum and Ron’s when we left Kai and had explained the whole process of where we were going etc. He was quite excited. The whole process was a lot nicer and calmer than with Kai. The theatre staff were lovely as they were getting me ready for the spinal block we were all chatting away and it was a really nice atmosphere. Time for the spinal ….. it took 4 goes until she got it right and it was quite painful… I then got wheeled into theatre and Massey sat beside me. We had made it clear we didn’t want to be told the sex rather see for ourselves. After what seemed like an eternity Mass and I were talking away and talking to the staff, taking photos etc and then the tugging began…. Then there was a wail and bubs was shown to us, the cord was in the way so it was quite hard to determine the sex although finally we were sure it was a GIRL our perfect Aaleaya Janet Kahikatea Newth .. Massey was called over to cut the cord which he described as cutting someone’s finger!!! She was bought over to me and I got to touch her. Massey was holding her as they were closing me up and I was pretty much just gazing in amazement!!!!. The smells and sounds all came back to me as I was laying there (yuk!!) We were then off to recovery, this was the part that affected me most with Kai, being separated so I was shocked to hear they were allowing my request to take bubs into recovery with me AND Massey was allowed also. It was fantastic as Aaleaya was on the breast within 30 minutes of birth and we had skin to skin contact. I was then transferred up to the ward with Aaleaya still with me skin to skin. I was a little whacked out but thrilled to pieces, we decided to wait till I had some movement in my legs back before getting mum to bring Kai in so rang all the relo’s to spread the news. Once Kai arrived he was in awe of his new sister and couldn’t believe all her hair! After being so determined to have a natural delivery I was still really happy with the outcome as I felt I had been able to make the decisions about what I wanted. She was weighed in at 8lb7oz Huge compared to Kai!! Later that morning I found out Rachel, a friend I met on a birth forum had birthed her little girl just an hour after Aaleaya arrived!!! So we had a hospital stay together!! Although with so much going on we need a catch up coffee to talk babies (hey there Rachel have to catch up soon!!!)!! So born on Tuesday 22nd May, my ‘just’ Gemini is just perfect. I left hospital on Saturday and have been enjoying baby daze. Aaleaya is feeding and sleeping perfectly, we have the health nurse out tomorrow so will be interested to see how much weight she has put on. Well that’s my rather long winded birth story. WELCOME TO THE WORLD BABY AALEAYA xx