I remember every moment well and the panic I felt when my partner was starting to feel Labour coming on.
I remember making the call to the hospital just knowing our son was going to be born.
My Partner Abbie was heavily pregnant we had already requested a water birth for the baby with the midwife. Our reason for this is that it is the most natural way of giving birth with less stress to the baby although my partner tried to deliver in labour using the water birth method but she found the contractions to painful this was demonstrated by the fact she had already chewed the replaceable heads twice on the gas they give pregnant women to help calm them during labour.
After some time the midwife assisting in labour of our son felt it was best for my partner Abbie to be put into the bed which was also situated in the room with the water birth pool to lay down in a different position to assist in the delivery of our son.
After much anxiety worrying about my partner and if everything was ok I slowly start to see a head appearing with some brown hair.
The midwife was ever so great at putting our minds at rest and reassuring for Abbie and I. After some profuse pushing by my partner i could start to see a face. I was in a world of worry and mixed emotions because us fellas especially first time dads are not sure how to react or what to expect. All I can say I was full of worry hoping the baby and Abbie was going to be ok my whole life flashed before me. I thought about how my dad was not ever there for me and promised that I would always be here for my son. Our baby was not moving much and it was taking some time for the baby to come out my partner was in crazy pain during contractions. The midwife assured me to not panic.
The colour of a baby skin when it first appears fresh from the womb is kind of blueish looking it's hard to explain but without no disrespect it's kind of alien like looking initially. I remember our baby son coming out and then the midwife holding him and then a silence within me with an implosion of every feeling you could have imaginable at one time followed by a cry from our newly born son Jamieson Junior SAMAIN. The cry gave everybody that relief everything is ok.
I can remember Abbie holding the baby and crying with clear relief she had given birth to our little baby son. I remember crying to I couldn't believe for the first time ever I was truly lost for words but full of joy.
10 Months on and this is baby Jamieson Junior Samain
Even after watching and being with my partner Abbie I can not even imagine what it's like for a women to have to go through with such ordeal of pregnancy physically and mentally. but it's most certainly amazing bringing a little one into this world. My thanks goes to my Partner Abbie whom I love dearly. X
And to all the wonderful mums and dads around the world bless !
From Jamie, Abbie and Jamieson ;)
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