Esme Elizabeth Webb

She's arrived!

After what felt like an amazingly long pregnancy Esme Elizabeth Webb made a safe and speedy entrance into the world on Saturday 19th September at 3:21am.

We're loving every moment of having her with us - it feels so natural that she's here and already we can't really remember what we did with our time before. We find that hours have flown by and all we've done is look at our little girl, especially when she opens her eyes and mesmerises us! Thankfully Esme has had her Nana staying to make sure there's been food on the table and clean clothes to wear!!!

For those of you who are interested, the labour was...over in a flash! Things seemed to be starting at 4am on Friday with weak contractions every hour or so. These continued through the day but with no signs of Esme making an appearance. So at midnight on Friday the hospital told us to try and get some sleep!!! Three hours 21 minutes later she had arrived!!! With just an hour and a half at the hospital. The midwife was rather surprised by the speed! So surprised that she had Simon working hard: monitoring heart beats; holding local anaesthetic bottles; assisting with taking blood and cutting the cord once she was out!

We came home from hospital Saturday evening as feeding was established and we all wanted to be together in our own home...and we are still loving that feeling.

Those of you who know Simon well will no doubt be concerned about his sleep situation...and so far...he's managing brilliantly. We've had a couple of pretty sleepless nights and a couple of good nights so we're still waiting to see what Esme's routine will be but Si's keen to start daytime napping for us all!!!

Talking of which - that's what I'm supposed to be doing seeing as Esme fed more or less continuously from 11pm to 3am!

Thanks for all the lovely messages.

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