It's a boy!

I'm happy to announce that we had a baby boy on Saturday 20th September 2014.

He decided that he couldn't wait any longer and popped out at 36 weeks and 4 days.

So after having a date for the c-section booked in for the 14th October, and then bringing it forward to the 3rd of October and then finally the 25th of September, nature took its course and forced the issue.

I was in the middle of feeding some of our pets when Fiona yelled out to me "Mike, I think we have a problem". From there it was a  bit of a rush to grab some clothes and organise to drop my first child off to be cared for whilst I drove Fiona to the hospital.

Arriving at the hospital at 8:15am Fiona had some basic tests done to check the condition of the baby and then we had to wait for our turn in the theatre.

At 9:30 our time had come and we were sent off to prepare for surgery.

Waiting for about 20 mins we were told that we had been bumped! a higher priority case need to use our slot so off to the waiting room we went. Another hour passed and we had been called up it was our turn again.

Entering the theatre everything was still very surreal. and just as we were about to start things the theatre staff were told that we had been put on hold due to an emergency birth down the corridor where a woman was giving birth to twins but had only manged to deliver one so far and that our staff may be needed if the second twin continued to have issues. The staff told us it was a very unusual day with alot of emergencies surgery occurring. This out of schedule workload was a once a year event and we had manage to pick it!.

We got to know some of the theatre staff well over the next 30 mins as Fiona sat on the operating table and surgeons awaited permission to proceed.

Full speed ahead and Fiona was finally having her epidural. The anesthetist said the initial needle felt a bit funny going in. The anesthetic was taking a while to work and was being boosted. A further top up of the anesthetic could potentially palatalize Fiona's lungs so if this last top up didn't work a general anesthetic would have to be applied. Luckily for Fiona it took hold and the obstetrician was able to proceed.

A couple of minutes later the curtain was dropped and we saw our baby boy for the first time.

Unlike my first son, this was didn't have any fluid on the lungs and didn't require any neo natal care so it was straight into the recovery room for him and Fiona.

Or baby was 3.36kg born at 12:36pm and we now had to decide on a name... and 9 days later we are still deciding on the name :) an announcement is immanent!