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Shayde on 28/8/2008 at 12:50

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Ok, my husband helped out a little in the beginning... but it was mostly me! :cheeky:

Liam Edward Oppenheim was born on the 25th of August at 13:25, weighing 3.7kgs and measuring 50.5 cms.

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After 12 hours of labour my contractions just stopped and I had an emergency spinal C sec. Which was pretty damn traumatic, but got him out safely.

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That was me scared shitless and shaking as they showed me my son for the first time. The spinal was bizarre - you can feel every last thing as they move around inside you and push and pull on your skin, fat and organs but without any pain. :eww:

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My husband was amazing throughout- considerate, supportive and most importantly capable. Having someone to handle things when you are overwhelmed or in pain or simply not coping is beyond fantastic. (Ladies please note - I ignore the silly beard because he looks so good naked).

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We are now back at home learning to go about our daily activities one handed, my nipples hurt like fuuuuuuu-uuuck and I have the occasional sleep deprivation inspired hallucination.

It has been beyond awesome - I can't stop the idiotic maternal smiling and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that MY son is the smartest most brilliant 3-day-old in the history of mankind. I don't even mind that I now have to go change a green-tar-poo nappy.

D'Juhn Keep on 28/8/2008 at 12:55

Congrats Shayde!

Matthew on 28/8/2008 at 13:07

Yay! Congratulations!

Medlar on 28/8/2008 at 13:17

Huge congrats \o/

henke on 28/8/2008 at 13:39

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. :D

BrokenArts on 28/8/2008 at 13:48

Congrats Shayde!

I had a C-section too, cept they knocked me out, I never got to see my daughter being born.
Her heart rate was dropping, so, I know the scared shitless feeling.

Congrats again! If I can give one piece of advice. Get him into a bedtime routine as soon as you can. At first yes, it will be tough. My mom raised 7 kids, and she helped with this. We gave my daughter a sponge bath when she was a newborn, and put her to bed every night, AT THE SAME TIME. Put her in her crib, we kept doing that, and doing that. Bedtime routine is SOO important!

You start early with the routine, he won't know anything else, and thinks its normal to him, which it should be. He will get used to this, and you'll have little or no problems getting him to bed as he gets older. Like so many parents do sometimes. My daughter loved her bath time, we made it fun, it relaxed her, we had no problems. Its the parents that cave, bring the kid to bed, let him/her have his way. Routine, routine, it is important!

And if you know that, take my advice with all the other advice and throw it out the window. :)

jay pettitt on 28/8/2008 at 14:34

I'm not a lady, so I'm afraid the promise of naked husband is not enough to ignore the silly beard. For the sake of little Liam it has to go.

Digital Nightfall on 28/8/2008 at 14:36

Wow! Awesome! :D

And what's wrong with that beard? :sweat:

Stitch on 28/8/2008 at 14:49

hahaha I was going to say that's wonderful and all but frankly we need to talk about that beard

BrokenArts on 28/8/2008 at 14:55

With the SIZE of that goatee/beard. Did a guinea pig die on his chin? Or did he decide to take some of the goat fur for himself.