Well that was a nail biting 24 hours. After the message that baby Harvey was on the way, I had to endure radio silence for 24 hours. I barely slept hoping to get a phone call, and was on tenter hooks all day at work, but nothing.
Finally after my mum also started to get a bit stressed out with the lack of info from anyone, I called the hospital who eventually put me through to the labour ward.
Who then said they could not tell me anything about what had happened, but that she was no longer in the labour ward.
WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!! do you mean "what happened"....."what happened???" I was very stressed, even though of course in the interests of confidentiality they were 100% right to tell me that they could not say anything, but "what happened" is a foreboding term...
Sensing my extreme discomfort at that expression, the person on the line, tried to reassure me that its ok, she's fine...phew...and the baby.... Sorry I can't say anything about that...ok ok ok..slightly less stressed but clearly not the answer I wanted as I held back tears.
Can you get a message to her to call her father, so I can let the other family members know they are all ok.
Of course, I'll get a message to them...phew..
And so began the longest 10 mins of my life as I waited to hear...checking on Danni's whatsapp to make sure that her phone was on again, and suddenly there was a read confirmation of my last 3, please contact me messages.
I tried calling but no joy....
Told mum on messenger that I 'd tried calling
tried whatsapping a hello, no response
Then finally a call, from Kieran, Dannis' fella....Sorry the signal in the hospital is crap, Danni asked to pop outside and let me know that she's ok.
Through a broken connection the words, difficult labour, a breech birth, delivered by forceps...(wow that's unusual), but the key words finally came.
"Both are fine and now resting."
Cue floods of tears..and virtual hugs for all 3 of them.
"Will send pic soon"
The feelings of joy at that moment cannot be captured in words..
I don't have all the usual details, like length, weight, time, those will come, "Both are fine and now resting", was all I wanted to hear.
Happy glorious wonderful words....
I got the picture a few hours later, I was sat in a pub quiz I'd been roped into with my friend Richard from The Gadgeteers and burst into tears....followed by lots of back slapping
She made me promise not to post pics online, so I can't show it here...but trust me, he's beautiful
have to go..need to buy more tissues.
Ahthankyew
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