One year ago today little Mia was born during the coldest and snowiest Winters for years. She was thirteen days overdue and both of us were losing the will.
The consultant had wanted us to go to the Hospital every day to have baby’s heart rate checked. We were given an appointment on 17th to discuss having an induction. We had pored over Amy’s notes and had come to the conclusion that the initial Doctor has got the due date wrong. Some of the dates that had been written down just did not tally up.
Our appointment was at 8pm. After sitting there with Amy wired up to the machine for a couple of hours one of the nurses came to get ready for the induction. The ‘discussion’ had evidently been forgotten and we were starting to feel like just another ‘target’ to be processed through the machine that is the NHS.
We asked for a consultant to come and have a chat and after waiting another hour the consultant came and read us the riot act regarding the possible outcome of not having the induction. We told her that we believed that the dates were wrong. She didn’t even look through the notes, she just told us that she was right and we were wrong.
After this we decided to go home. There was no way Amy was going through an induction. We had decided and we were sticking to our decision. At around 10pm things started happening and through the night the contractions came strong and fast.
At 5am we called the midwife to come out. We had booked a home-birth and although we had passed the overdue limit by just one day, decided to seek her advice. She arrived and couldn’t check for dilation properly because she had not bought any lubricant with her. Typical!! Anyway she was useless, and told us Amy wasn’t in labour when an idiot could see that she was!
After she left the contractions continued to strengthen until at around 9am we headed to the hospital. Upon arrival a guardian angel came to save us. She was a volunteer, an experienced nurse training to be a midwife. She was kind and gentle and gave us the time we needed. Thanks to her the birth was lovely. Amy sailed through with just gas and air and gave birth to our little Mia a couple of hours after we arrived.
So today Mia is the grand old age of one!! Jake was very excited we he got up. We all sang Happy Birthday and gave her, her presents. Jake was surprised that she looked the same as last night and that she wasn’t walking yet. He half expected her to have changed overnight :-).