Jovie’s arrival
Posted on May 27th, 2009 by Tracey
**note** long story ahead! i really couldn’t edit it down as i want to remember it all, this way 🙂
so where to begin? as i kept mentioning on my blog, every day after the 37 week mark, i was told and thought ‘any day now’.. and i had really begun to believe that i would ‘go early’. not that i had been checked (for dilation or effacement etc) but ‘second babies are usually faster’ and ‘gees you’re huge, you’re bound to go soon!’.
coming up to 40 weeks (the estimated due date) and no real sign of anything starting soon – i was getting anxious and impatient. each night I would spend hours reading other birth stories (especially second labours) and researching every single niggle and situation possible. i could feel myself slowly going insane and forgetting how natural and wonderful my pregnancy had been, and even on my due date i posted about how i was ‘still here’.
little did i know, that later that same night things were about to get interesting — and fast!
