So it's 3 weeks tomorrow since little man arrived, I woke up on Tues 31st May about 2.30am in pain, contractions every 8 minutes, I phoned the hospital and they said to take a warm bath and call them back when they are 5 minutes apart, jumped in the bath and the contractions became irregular, got back into bed to sleep and about 5.30am the pain hit me like a freight train, every 5 minutes, rang hospital again, they said come in when they are 3 minutes apart, I was like I'm coming in now, got to hospital about 6.45am and they checked me over about 9am I was 6cms an hour later I was fully dilated and needing to push, my not so little (9lbs 12oz, long) baby arrived at 12 noon, during labour I tore in a few different places, had to have stitches and a catheter for 24 hrs, I lost 800ml of blood, my BP dropped dangerously low and theatre and crash team were on standby, I was completely spaced out, it happened twice, hubby and mum were freaking out, naturally. I had to have 2 pints of blood (transfusion) which didn't bring my iron levels up as much as they liked, had to stay in overnight, all this happened but I wouldn't change it for the world because my boy is perfect, the love I feel for him is nothing I've ever felt before 😍💙