It's Me, Lucy!

11th November 2015 - The day I was meant to be induced! Our first full day as a family! My first day as a mummy!  We fought so hard and waited so long to become a mummy and daddy and yet here we were, less than 24 hours since giving birth, feeling all the mummy feels and bursting with love and pride for this wee bundle and yet someone else had washed her, fed her, changed her nappies and spent the night with her all before I had. Arriving in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit that morning was such a relief. It was also one of the scariest moments of my life. Adam arrived soon after me and we talked and stroked our precious girl, so tiny in her incubator and surrounded by all sorts of machines. Every beep sending our hearts racing!  We didn't know at this stage how the initial tests on her heart had gone and while we waited for the Consultant to arrive on the ward we got our first proper skin to skin time. Those moments will live with me forever.   Sk...

10th November 2015 - Welcome to the world Lucy Evin Thom!  Adam arrived at the hospital early that morning following a good night sleep and fresh as a daisy! I on the other hand was exhausted and a little worse for wear! I only just had the chance to have a quick sink wash before we were taken down to the Labour Ward. So much for the clean hair!! In the Labour Ward we were introduced to our Midwife, Aileen. She was so lovely! She had a great sense of humour and put me right at ease. I felt safe in her hands. Across the hall we could hear the screams of another woman in the throws of birth which made me slightly nervous but Aileen rolled her eyes at me and told me it wasn't going to be that bad! She got me all hooked up to the drip that would administer the medication to induce my labour. I went for a pee while she held all the cables and tubes out the way and that was the point where I dropped my dignity along with my knickers!!  We chatted away for a...