Niamh, makes her Internet debut…
After a long and stressfull labour Niamh was born at 04.13am on 31 October 2006. She weighed in at 6lb 14oz, and is gorgous!
So the baby is on it’s way, Julie is in Labour and we are both tired.
As we went to bed on Friday night (27th Oct) she was complaining of the baby pushing on more nerves than usual. Over the past few weeks the pressure on nerves in her pelvis had been increasing, but Friday night it was being a little bit more of a sod than usual. But we didn’t think much of it even though baby was due the day before on the 26th.
Next thing I knew, I was being prodded awake by Julie at 6am on Saturday morning with the imortal words ‘Mark I think its starting’. It is now nearly 10am on Sunday morning and I have had about 3 hours sleep since then. She had a ‘show’ on the Saturday morning at about 2am and had been getting pains in her lower back about every 10 minutes, thats what made her think it had started.
So the baby is not hear yet, but it has been quite a ride so far. We called the hospital on Saturday but they kept fobbing us off saying that they didn’t even think Julie was in labour, they were saying that she merley had a trapped nerve as the pain was in her lower back not her belly. That didn’t seem right to me, the fact that the pains were rythmic and there was a show seemed like labour to me. It really confused us as we were doubting ourselves that we really were in labour.
It eventually got too much, they had reccomended taking baths and some paracetamol or cocodonol, I had to run out at midnight and grab some paracetamol from the garage, but that didn’t help at all. So I eventually at 5am Sunday morning took her to the hospital, as I wanted them to see her in person. After some prodding and poking they confirmed she was having contractions, in labour and was 2cm dilated!
So they gave us some hospital strength cocodonol and sent us home. Thats where we are at the moment, I have dragged the mother-in-law over so that she can sit with Julie while I grab some sleep, and the cocodonol is taking the edge of the pain.
Like I said it’s a ride, the worst thing was last night when were were not sure if we were in labour or not, but now we know it makes things better somehow.
Anyway, just needed to blog to get it out, I am really exited.
More news later!!!
Baby is due 1 week today!! (26th October)
It’s scary and exiting at the same time, well scary for Julie as she has to push the bugger out! I keep trying to ply Julie with hot curry and pineapple as that is supposed to induce birth. The sooner it comes out the better in my opinion, as the baby is not considered premature from 36 weeks onwards anyway, so there should be no problem in it comming out now
So this weekend, I finally got round to doing some work on opencontribution.org, the project I am working on to create a place where people can go, and find out how they can contribute to the Free and Open Source community.
It’ s just a basic Wiki at the moment, until someone comes up with a better framework. So please if you have ideas on how to contribute to the community, pop along register and let us know!
It’s local music for local people! There is a great weekend of music happening here in Glossop coming up later this month. The lads over at the Stereo Graffiti Radio Shed have organised a Oxjam weekend, raising money for Oxfam.
Get down there, the music is top notch and should be a good craic. I intend to pop down for at least one of the gig’s, but only if the new baby hasn’t arrived yet!
Just want to say what a fabulous place I think Speakers Corner is.
I was in London to meet up with a few friends, and Sunday afternoon I had a few hours to kill, so after a great meal at Bodeans I wandered over to Speakers Corner, I had not been for years.
When I lived in London I often used to go here as it is great place, I loved all the livley debate. There is quite a community there, and you can see that a lot of the Speakers there are on 1st name terms with the other Speakers and some of the hagelers. The debate is fantastic, and it can get quite heated, but it is all taken with a pinch of salt.
I had a great debate with a Christian preacher, I was arguing that his faith is on a shaky foundation, as it is based on beleif in the Bible, a book compiled and mangled by the Catholic Church for it’s own ulterior motives. He also said that because our current calender is counted from the time of Jesus birth, then that is evidence of Jesus existance and divinity!!!
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