Little Egan Davies
19 October 2011
and so my story begins....
My mommy decided to start this blog for all my family who live so far away in South Africa! Hopefully this way they can be kept up to date with my ever fast development and growth (mom and dad can barely keep up!).
As I am already 4 months old, it's hard to think where to start as there is so much to catch up on. Lets see...ok lets try start from the beginning...
It all started in mommy's tummy (well not really but you know what I mean (",) )
Daddy took these photo's the Saturday before I was born, so about 4 days before I was born - two weeks early I must add. (Very much took mommy and daddy by surprise!)
Mommy said she loved having me in her tummy. I quite liked it myself until I got too long then I was a bit squashed, which is why I had to come out early. There just wasn't enough space for my long legs!
So the story of my birth went like this...on the 18th October 2011 mommy went to lunch with her NCT friends but was not feeling so great. When mommy got home she lay on the couch and didn't have dinner because her tummy wasn't feeling good (like she has eaten something bad). Mommy watched some tv and had a bath while she waited for daddy to get home from work. Daddy only got home at about 10pm so by the time they got to bed that night it was 12pm.
As mommy lay down she thought about putting down her mattress sheets (to prtect the matress when her waters broke) but mommy said to herself, "oh don't be silly I've got 2 weeks left I'll put them down on Monday" not five minutes later there was a pop like noise and mommy gasped as she felt the gush of water coming out of her "tummy". She jumped up and went to the bathroom with daddy in hot persuit! Mommy calmly called the hospital while daddy was shaking like a leaf in the door way. (mommy made daddy eat something so he'd stop shaking and then he was fine)
The hospital said to mommy she must go in for a check up as she was only 37 weeks pregnant so they wanted to see if I was ok. So off mommy and daddy went (thank goodness mommy's hospital bag was already packed!) They thought they would be sent back home again to come back another day when I wanted to come out but little did they know....I was all ready to come into the world!
After some checks and lots of questions mommy was booked in for an induciton on the Thursday (this was Tuesday) so mommy and daddy were going to come home until the midwife asked mommy to stay until she felt me move. (I moved around alot in my mommy's tummy but since the waters broke she hadn't felt me) So after a few minutes mommy felt me kick and was happy but then she started to have some pain. So the midwife asked mommy to stay for one hour to see how the labour was progressing.
Daddy was timing mommy's pain and they were coming faster and staying longer (every 2 minutes lasting about 1.30 minutes) After some time the midwife came to check on mommy and said that she was 4 centimeters dialated already (after only one hour) so they said mommy and daddy couldn't go home...and that was when it all kicked off!
Mommy wanted to keep active so she was walking up and down in the birthing centre and bouncing on the exercise ball when all of a sudden she felt a thud! That was me dropping into the birth canal getting ready for my grand entrance! Not long after this mommy got into the lovely warm birthing pool and she stayed there until my head was coming out. Then mommy got out (she didn't want a water birth because she was worried I might breath in water when I came out) So she got out and sat on a special chair that looked like a toilet seat and this is where mommy pushed me out! Eeish it must have been sore for mommy! (She did tell me later that it was very painful but she was brave and didn't have any pain relief).
This last pushing part took about 30 minutes and I was born at 6.23am on the 19th October 2011! It was the happiest day of mommy and daddy's life...even more than the day they got married!
Me a few hours old...born at 37+ weeks, wieghting 2.9kg's (6.6pounds) and 49cm long
Me with mommy and me with daddy...Aah the love!
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| Me being weighed |
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| My first nappy |
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| All snug & warm ready for my first nights sleep in this big big world...
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The end of my very first day in this new world....
P.s. Mommy tells me I slept the whole night and only woke up at 6am for a feed...such a good boy right from the start - mommy and daddy are so very lucky (",)
The first few days of my life....
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Tiny little me |
And off we went to my very first home......
