My name is Niki and I would like to share my birth story with you.

Mum = Niki
Dad = Peter
Brother = Logan  16th March 2001
Bubby = Charlie Stephen

I had a pretty good pregnancy other then the sickness I suffered from 8:30pm of a night time for the first 13 weeks , once I got past 14 weeks I was feeling great, at 25 weeks I was suffering from bad Braxton hicks and was told to take it VERY easy(Which is hard to do with a 3 year old). At 18 weeks I had my first scan which confirmed I was due on the 28 May 2004. On the 26th of April I was getting Braxton hicks again which lasted on and off for 4 days,I thought it was only happening due to the little bit a stress I was under but On Friday the 30th of April I woke up at 4.00am feeling very jittery so I got up and went for a walk around the house and went back to bed,I woke again a 8.30am and was laying in bed when I felt a small trickle of fluid on my legs, with a bit of a panic I jumped up out of bed to run down to the toilet when woooossshhh my waters broke (Our 3 year son standing there asking me why I spilt my drink)LOL God bless him.So I rang the hospital and told me to go up there straight away as I still wasn't due for 4 weeks, by 11.00am I was having contraction every 2-minutes apart, The doctor come to do a internal to make sure everything was ok and to see if I had dilated at all which I hadn't, He told me if I didn't start dilating by myself by 4:00pm he would put me on a drip to get things going. By 4.00pm I was having contractions every 1-2 minutes apart and were so strong I was having a hard time concentrating on anything, They did another internal to find I wasn't dilating and was still only at 1cm. The midwife told me to go and have a shower and walk around alittle as they would preferred me to get things on the roll myself. Ohhhh the hot shower was a god sent I was in there for over a hour and I didn't want to hope out, the warm water running over my back was lovely,I told my partner that I thought I needed something for the pain as I was so tired and had been having contractions for the last 5 hours and nothing was happening , the nurses gave my 2 Panadol and a sleeping tablet and told me to get some rest (I was able to get a little rest but not a great deal) at 11.00pm I decided I was going back to the shower and they were not going to stop me I just wanted this baby out, at 11.30 the midwife told me she wanted to do another internal as I was feeling some urges that I wanted to push but to there surprise I was still only dilated to 5cms and at this stage my contractions were so strong that I couldn't stand when I had one so I asked for some pain relief so they gave me a injection of pethidine. When the midwife returned at 11.50pm I kept saying I wanted to push, so she told me to hope out of the shower again and that she would give me 1 more internal and if I hadn't dilated she was going to get the doctor as my blood pressure had got a little to high for there liking, She didn't complete the internal as she said she could feel a head, YYYYAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. After 1 hour and 5 minutes of pushing we finally got alittle boy. The doctor was present for the birth due to him being 4 weeks early,They took him straight over to the table because he needed assistance with his breathing. Peter(Dad) cut the cord and they bought him over to me, He was so small weighing in at 2540 grams.The first thing I notices was his blonde hair and his little baby pinky finger which is bent like mine and my fathers. It was a great experience and would do it again.

Name - Charlie Stephen
D.O.B- 1st of May 2004
Time- 1.06 am
length- 47cms
head circumference - 32.5cms

Charlie was in a humidy crib for 4 hours and was then in special care for a week as the little buggar would suck once he got the hang of it has hasn't stoped he is now 4 months old in a couple of days and is 7.2 kgs , He is our little porky.