I finally had my little girl on 25th April!

The week preceding the big event was very hard for me. Over the course of the week, I'd been getting pains, but nothing had happened. Finally, late on Friday April 25th, the pains I were getting were proper labour pains. But of course, now, I didn't believe it was happening. So I ignored it and went to bed to watch telly. when I realised these pains were regular, I decided to call the maternity unit and they said don't come til they are less than 10 minutes apart.

I decided at 1:30am that it was time to leave as being 15 miles from the hospital and the my sisters (she was looking after the older 3 for me) I was worried that I'd be giving birth next to the A339! We arrived at the maternity unit at 2:30am, at which point everything stopped again!!

The midwife suggested we go for a short walk, but I was determined to do a tour of the whole hospital! We (Marv & I!!) walked down 4 flights of stairs which at that point I should have turned round and gone back, and carried on down the very long corridor that leads to the main hospital. I decided that I needed to go back as things actually hurt now!!

We eventually managed to get back to my room at 4am. I was now in a lot of pain and demanded my gas and air. I wanted to do the rest of the labour on my front as the pain wasn't so bad. All the time though, I was shouting at the midwife as I didn't think my waters would naturally break! I was demanding a c-section and the midwife just ignored my complaining and said they'd break when they were ready. And boy did I realise! I needed to start pushing, but they still hadn't broken so by now I was freaking out! But, all of a sudden I knew they'd broken! Two minutes, yes TWO minutes later, Bethan's head had popped out!

She was born at 4:49am weighing 7lb 11oz

She's now 12lb and is beautiful!

I'll have piccies on here asap xx