goodbye hospital... hello world!
30 April 2006
As you can see here, Lorcan was born with a cleft lip. Fortunately, the malformation is very minor and there is no internal damage to his mouth, nose or palate. He's been tested for any associated malformations and, thankfully, he got the all clear. At some time in his first 6 months, Lorcan will be having a small plastic surgery operation to correct the cleft in his lip. We perish the thought of operating on our tiny little baby so soon but, at the same time, we're just so thankful that he's well and healthy in every other way.... our lovely little Lorcan.
And here we are mid-contraction... Almost there! In the end I held on with my waters intact till almost 4pm! The delivery rooms were all full and so I ended up delivering in the exploration room! Carol, the obstetrician that delivered Malachy appeared and saw us. She wasn't even on duty but decided to quickly jump into her sterile greens and assist our birth!! The midwife agreed and we were off! As soon as I sat up on the examining chair, lay back, got my legs into the stirrups and pushed a little, my waters broke in a dramatic deluge!!! Three pushes later and: Lorcan was born!!!
On Tuesday April 25th I went into labour at about six o'clock in the morning! We hung out at home during dilation until around 1pm and then headed to the hospital. I was already almost 9 cm dilated when we got there (!) but my waters still hadn't broken!! Here I am, between contractions, after a session of fetal monitoring -about to get onto the birth ball for some soft bouncing...
18 April 2006
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