Sienna1Abi and Peter are delighted to announce the safe arrival of Sienna Rose Harding.  Born at 12.05am on Tuesday 28th October 2008, she weighed in at 8lbs 1/2oz.  She is a picture of health, with all vital signs excellent. Due to some minor maternal blood loss during delivery, Abi and Sienna have been kept in overnight, with the family due to be reunited when the two of them come home early on Tuesday morning.

As I wrote in yesterday’s post, Abi had, at 14 days overdue, gone in to Derriford to be induced.  At 3.15pm on Monday 27th October, she was finally called down to the Central Delivery Suite where she had her waters broken at about 4.30pm.  Thereafter, nature took over, and no further intervention was required at all – Abi was an absolute star, needing only her TENS machine and some gas & air to ease the pain and went from the start of conventional labour to delivery in 6 hours, half the average time! 

The two midwives we had during our time in delivery, Victoria and Ceri, were absolutely superb, and allowed Abi to adhere to her ‘home birth’ plan as much as possible.

Here are a few pictures of our beautiful new daughter (click any image to view larger and rotate through them) - more can be found at our photo site by clicking the link on the right or by using this link http://petejigsaw.zenfolio.com

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