Finlay James Gunn 6lb 6oz

Monday 14th July. I was awoken suddenly with a contraction like feeling at 0530hrs. I waited 2 minutes and another contraction occurred.... Here we go... Was this the start of labour ? My water broke and yes it was the start of labour.... we were about to meet our new baby.
James was on a night shift in calgary (1 hr away), and due to finish at 0730hrs , so I thought I would phone him ,let him know that things had started and even suggested that he wait until the end of his shift before coming home!! Thankfully he never listened to me. I had a shower before things became too intense . I remember thinking to myself that it seemed a lot stronger than my labour with Heather and that perhaps time changes your perception of pain. I found I was barely able to do anything, apart from throwing a few things in a bag and lifting Heather from her crib before quickly retreating to the bathroom unable to even get her dressed. She followed me shouting "Mummy? Mummy ?"I remember saying to her "It's okay, Heather, Mum's just having the baby" and then her patting me on the leg.
Thankfully James arrived home at 06.40, got Heather dressed , phoned Nancy the childminder on call to see if we could drop Heather off before leaving, but there was no answer. So Heather came to the hospital with us. We arrived at the hospital at about 0700 my contractions had changed during the car journey and were now one minute apart. I was greeted by my colleagues, who took me straight to the labour and delivery room to check things over...7-8 cm dilated .They called my doctor right away.
By this time Nancy had received her message and called James to say that she would come down to the hospital and pick up Heather. But by now I was having the urge to push, James took Heather out of the room, into the corridor, where one of the admin staff offered to take Heather until Nancy arrived. However by the time James returned (about 5 mins) our baby had been born at 0728 . All I remember thinking was" poor sod, he's missed it ". But to be honest everything went so fast that he probably didn't miss much. Atleast this time he was able to TRIM the chord!!!!


A healthy beautiful baby boy, Finlay James Gunn 6lb 6oz, lots of lovely dark hair. The great thing was that, once I had been cleaned up, Heather was able to come and see her brand new baby brother and the first thing she did was to kiss him.

Nancy arrived with a coffee for James and we chatted for a while, then she took Heather to her house for the morning.
Later that afternoon, James brought Heather back to the hospital and took her to the little shop to choose a gift for her new brother. She went straight up to a wee blue teddy and said " Dat one". She was so excited to visit and sat on the bed to hold Finlay and we all had a big cuddle.