My baby girl is here!

[sweetpea]

Congratulations, zanacal! What a wonderful birth story, and what a beautiful baby girl! Welcome to the world, Eliza!

[Hobbermittens]

Ooooh! I just now noticed the pictures! She is beautiful!

[Belle]

Aww she is gorgeous Congratulations to you and your family.

[Dreams*]

Congrats on yr new lil girl, shes beautiful ! ;0)

[mariposa]

she is sooo beautiful!!!! congratulations!!!!

[ovofiv]

She is so cute!! Congratulations!!

[littlemissnaughty7]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh she is gorgeous well done huni xxxxxxx

[zanacal]

Thanks everyone

We're doing well here. It's complete and utter chaos because it's half-term and the boys are all home - and it's raining so we can't leave them out in the garden all day (or they don't want to!). DH has just taken them for a walk because it stopped raining but I've just looked out the window and it's pouring down - woops!

Eliza is doing so well. My milk came in early on day 2 (mummy's body's done this before!) so she lost hardly any of her birth weight and, like the boys, she knows exactly what she's doing feeding wise. She's very settled between feeds and I'm loving cuddling her pretty much all day long - I know this is the last time I'll be doing that with one of my babies and how soon she won't want me to do it any more! She's so far only waking once during the night for a feed but is taking a long time to go back down so we've been having long lie ins while DH gets up with the boys. I am going to be a zombie when DH is back at work and we have the school run to do! I've been feeling pretty crap physically some of the time. The afterpains have been hideous and I generally feel like I've been kicked in the stomach by a horse and then knocked over and had a truck drive over my back ... you get the picture! I'm sure it won't last much longer though and of course it's worth it for the little darling fast asleep next to me. Today Eliza had visitors so she wore her first pretty dress - and then did her first poo up her back

I'm reading posts but usually on my phone while I'm feeding Eliza so my hands aren't free for long replies!

[zanacal]

So exciting! Congratulations zanacal! Your birth sounds fantastic, as well! I only hope I can have such a breezy experience my second birth (my son was a 49 hour labor... in the end, he had to have forceps assistance because he was getting tired and he was posterior... sigh )

So happy for you! Yay!

All my boys were posterior and this birth was a breeze in comparison! I wonder whether the others would have been much quicker if they'd been a good position like she was. Check out Spinning Babies Home | spinningbabies.com when the time comes - fab site for helping baby to position well. Births are all different

[zanacal]

Z- you and Eliza both look so beautiful - I'm in tears looking at the pictures. You have a daughter!!!! Has it sunk in yet?

Lol about your DH - mine is even worse if he's woken in the night because on top of being useless he's also grouchy. We were fighting with each other the whole way to the hospital with ds3!

It sounds like it was s pretty amazing birth - I hope mine's that uneventful and quick! I needed an episiotomy and a million stitches with DS3 and I'm really hoping to avoid that this time.

DH and I were arguing at the hospital too - I told him we'd be hilarious on One Born Every Minute! He kept on fussing about going to put a ticket on the car (we didn't have time when we arrived) and about 5 minutes before she was born he said he was going to go and do it and I was telling him between contractions that he was not going to go and put a bloody ticket on the car! He actually went before I'd delivered the placenta and cut the cord lol! He explained afterwards that he was worried we'd be wanting to go home with the baby and our car would have been clamped but at the time I just didn't get it! He also keeps telling everybody it was an easy birth! I guess to him it was much quicker and different to the boys' labours and I think I was quite quiet this time too - but easy is not the right word!