After nine months of a lot of pain and discomfort (mostly for Lorna) the baby has finally come. It was strange in those last few weeks. It felt to me like life had ground to a halt and nothing at all was going on.
On Wednesday afternoon Lorna came back from an appointment at the midwife’s who said she was already 4cm dilated. We had dinner and events overtook us. We had hoped for a home-birth but the time of day meant we had to go in so we called our friend Jenny to look after the kids and we drove over to the City Hospital. The boys were very good about going to bed before we left. They were clearly excited as they knew the moment we had been waiting for was finally here. Rafe, who has been demanding and self-centred recently, was very accommodating and accepted being put to bed without a story. When we got into the car, Lorna said to me, “Drive really slowly but also really fast.”
We arrived at the labour suite and had a nice room which was dimly lit with pinprick LED stars on the c…
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