yay, We’re home

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   Hey guys, Janine Here, finally outta hospital, was going a little stir crazy in there.

Glad to be home, Poor paris has very much missed her mummy, very upset and cuddly tonight, have to keep reassuring her mummy isn't going anywhere, and i will be here when she wakes up.

Okies, so. here's the details..

felt fine all day tuesday, Woke up at just past 1-ish wednesday morning, having a couple of little cramps.. thought here we go again, cos was the same as false alarm on friday. Woke mike, but we stayed in bed for a little while cos i really didn't think anything was happening. finally decided about 2 that we should ring mum and get her round just in case.. still - contractions were about 5 mins apart, but only about 10 seconds long.

got in bath, they started getting longer, prety much straight away, mike timed them and they were about 1 min apart, so we rung midwife again, told her we were on our way... it then took ages to actually get there, had a really knarly contraction, and i felt like baby was really on it's way, then they started coming on top of each other once i tried to get out of the bath...to i was basically crawling round the house.

got to hospital, crawled into lift (feel like such an idiot admitting that) and that was it...

was admitted at 4 am, I was 7cm when they broke my waters at 4.15, asked midwife how much longer she thought id take, she said maybe an hour. lol, ok, by 4.25 i was pushing, and 4.35 Ayja was born.   

ow ow ow, fast is hideous, much more painful than paris, 

no tears or stitches though. 

She is so completely tiny, we really didn't think she would be so little.  she is the opposite of paris, who was big chubby and dark. Ayja is tiny, with fine features, and blonde/ginger hair. 

feeding etc is going well apart from the fact she is a "cluster" feeder. she sleeps all day, but then from 8pm till 5 am for the last 2 nights, she has fed all night, i have had 10 mins dozing every hour. it sucks.

okies, well, that's it. Ayja is awake and having cuddles with her aunty. hopefully tonight will be al ittle different and i can get more sleep.

thanks for all the congrats... will tell you once we get pics available.. sis has digital camera with her, but our comp doesn't support the software.