Welcome Melissa

The final month of my pregnancy went rather smoothly apart from the pregnancy symptoms i was suffering and the SPD. By now though i was so tired and fed up. I had this huge bump that restricted me alot on what i could do. So i was relieved when on the night my daughter was due, i started getting pains in my stomach. I told Tony and we decided to wait and see how it went. The pains gradually got worse so an ambulance was called. I was taken to St Johns Hospital to the Labour Ward. They decided that i was no where near ready to deliver so i was moved onto the Mary Munion Ward for the night. I was told that someone would bring me some pain relief. But 4-5 hours after being told this, i still had not been given any relief. So i struggled on crutches to find a midwife to ask for some. They were all sitting around drinking cups of tea or coffee and having a laugh. They gave me some paracetamol. This did absolutely nothing for me. So a few hours later they decided to give me a shot of pethedine. I was moved onto the antenatal ward that day and the midwives kept fobbing us off saying they were going to break my waters at a certain time, and then changing their minds. This really angered Tony and he got pretty nasty with the midwives. After a few hours of fobbing us off, my sister Andrea had a word with them and they finally broke my waters. It was then that they admitted they would have had to break them anyway as my membrane was too thick and hard. I was glad that finally things were moving along. I went for a wander in order to get baby to engage. By now, the contractions were coming thick and fast. I barely had time to recover from the last one when i was suddenly hit with another. At about 9 that evening, i was taken back upto the labour ward where i was allowed another shot of pethedine and some gas and air. At 9:43pm my beautiful baby girl was born weighing 6lbs 7oz. She was perfect. Tony cut the cord. We had already decided on a name. We were going to call her Melissa Kelly. I couldn't wait to hold her. She was so tiny and precious. I just wanted to cry with joy. lol.