Baby arrived unplanned homebirth!!

Baby girl (no name yet) arrived 25.08.23 (my due date) took me a while to put this on here due to the drama around labour and me getting my head around it.

Had a sweep on 23rd had some kind of contraction pains and losing loads of my mucus plug. Then on the 24th i woke up and all the contraction pains stopped but carried on losing mucus plug though.

I woke up at 4.30 on the 25th with sickness and Diarrhoea and i knew this was the time because this is how my other daughters labour started. I thought i had time because my daughter came kind of quickly 5 and half hours but no by 5.15 i was in complete agony i called my mum to collect my older daughter by time she arrived at around 5.45 i was on the dining room floor. I had called for an ambulance and the operator was talking me through breathing etc just before 6 her head came out and the next push after she had arrived. She roughly came out at 6.05 me and my mum were in such shock we had no idea exact time. Paramedics turned up not long after 🤯

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Look at those curls 😍😍

Congrats how scary x

Wow, that is crazy!!! Congratulations and well done!! Hope you and your baby are doing well 💖

i know so soft too 😍

yes we are totally fine. We went to hospital then was back at home within 7 hours to scrub my carpet and wash my duvet 😂 new floor pending soon haha

Wow well done you xx

just came out while doing laundry love it 😂 yes my first daughter is very head strong and she was the 5 hour one. So give me strength for this little miss. Yes rapid labour it when from just a couple contractions not being too painful to full force in such a short time.

Congratulations! I unexpectedly had my 2nd baby at home! Water didn’t break until she was popping out!!

Well done you. That's a super power x

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