Well as the band is no longer I thought I'd start another blog, this time it will be about Gwen our new addition. I'm sure only friends and family will be looking in.
Gwen will no doubt grow up super fast and so this will be a way of keeping all the good pics and stories in one place.
So here we go....
Gwen was born on Tuesday 21st February 2012. She arrived at 3.35pm at Torbay hospital. The birth was straight forward. My body did what it was designed to do and voila we went from just the 2 of us, to 3 in a short space of time (plus the 9 months)
Here is the straight after she was born pic - if you don't like to see a bit of baby gunk then don't look on the top of her head. In fact she was quite a clean new born.
I look very relieved as you can imagine!
These days they recommend skin to skin contact soon after birth for various reasons. Here is Chris having his skin to skin in the chair next to the hospital bed.
In her little bed next to my bed on the ward.
Still in delivery suite, under the lamp to keep her warm.
My two lovely midwives who came to say goodbye on the ward Katie and Melissa. Gwen is not pulling the best of faces admittedly!
You will need to ignore the dates at the top of the first few posts as I have some catching up to do...
22nd February 2012
We were visited today by lots of family members.
My sister Charlie drove down from Somerset especially to see Gwen.
Here I am still in my bed, with little Gwenny beside me, - cute!
Her little ankle bracelet - known as 'baby'
While we were in the hospital I saw Louisa (one of my students mums) who is a midwife at Torbay Hospital, she helped get Gwen into her going home suit (which was far too big) Here is a pic of her holding Gwen who looks really small now on reflection!
