Meet mum Toni, who gave birth to her daughter Harper on Christmas Day
came on the radio, which helped calm me down. At hospital we were shown to a ward with a curtained off bed. It was 9.30pm, and Russell was allowed to stay for another hour.
Russell arrived, and we were shown to our own room in the induction suite. The atmosphere was lovely and chilled, with Christmas songs playing on the radio. I lay back and breathed deeply as the midwife examined me. To my surprise, I was 2-3cm dilated already – before feeling a single contraction. Although the monitor showed I was having regular contractions, I couldn’t feel a thing. I was examined again and found to be 3cm, so I hadn’t really progressed. To move things along, I was hooked to a drip, which gave me an artificial hormone called syntocinon.
Soon I fell fast asleep. It had just gone midnight when I opened my eyes and felt a refreshing cold breeze through the open window. “Happy Christmas!” Russell smiled, and I realised what day it was. I could hardly believe it when I saw snowflakes falling in the night sky. It was such a special moment.
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