The New Hilliard in the Hood

Introducing Maia Mere-Korara Hilliard!! She came into the world two weeks late but within 1.5 hours from first contraction to taking her first breath.
I went into hospital to have my waters broken to get things going at 9.30 in the morning but we had to fluff around until someone could get my leur in (the thing with which drips etc are hooked into) After 4 attepmts by two different midwives I was feeling rather like a pin cushion and would rather wait for someone more experienced :) So after a bit of a wait it was all on.

11.50 waters broken
1.40 first contraction
3.17 Born into the world at 4.675kg 10pounds 2oz 54.5cm long

Wow what a whirlwind! It happened all very quick and after she was born a little bit of Greys Anatomy action drama scene went down. They thought I might have been bleeding a bit much and as a precautionary measure it seemed the whole hopsital of midwives and anaesthetist's came in but after all that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as they thought. But good to know they're on the ball and ready to go in case.

She spent a bit of time in the Special Care unit because she is such a big girl her blood sugar levels were a bit all over the place, she was getting such good kai from mum that when she came out they dropped. So she had a glucose drip in to help until her body could regulate it herself. She's all good now and feeds well. She his so gorgeous and loves sleeping at this stage, I'm sure we'll have fun with that down the track, but at the moment it is really just sleep and eat :)

We took a couple of days to pick the Name off our shortlist and after all that we went with the name that we had for Nathan if he was a girl. I've always liked Maia and Mere-Korara is my maternal grandmothers and great great grandmothers name, and Hilliard well you know...

So here she is...

1 day longer than Nathan

Well after another false Labour on Friday afternoon (very frustrating) I am still here with my baby in my belly :) With Nathan I was 13 days 'overdue' and today I am 14 days over with this one. Obviously it's just how my body is, I'm a 42 week baby carrier :) My midwife visited yesterday and we tried a few things to get this thing going, but to no avail. I was booked in this morning with the obstetrician to break my waters but was having second thoughts with fear that it would lead from one intervention to another. But after talking with my midwife she says my cervix is so ready to go and babys head is soooo low, she doesn't understand why I'm not in labour already, and that breaking my waters will almost definately set labour off. So I am meeting her at 9.30 which I am more comfortable about and she will break my waters and we'll go from there. I'm really praying that Labour kicks in from that, and they will be able to keep the Syntocinon well away!!!
So we hope to meet our little girl today, and will be able to introduce you to her soon enough.

Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers!!!