An unplanned visit to the hospital

Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:55 PM

> Hi all.
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> Well gem and I have had a couple of pretty eventful days.
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> Firstly yesterday the plasterer was in doing the nursery. When we got home
> it all looked good but as we were sitting down for tea last night there
> was an almighty crash from upstairs.
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> About 90% of the new plaster on the sealing had fallen off of the aertex
> which it was covering. The plasterer has been really good though. He came
> around late last night to have a look and they've been in again today and
> have cleared up all the mess and redone it. It seems to be holding just
> fine this time!
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> Over the last couple of days Gem has also been getting a little worried as
> she Hasn't felt the little one move as much as she was last week. We
> decided last night that if we were still worried that we would contact the
> birthing centre to get some advice.
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> Well tonight once we got home from work we were still worried so Gem gave
> them a call.
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> They said it was probably nothing to worry about but if we wanted to go in
> and they'd listen to the heart beet and do a bit of a checkup.
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> This was the first time we've actually been to the birthing centre where
> we're actually going to have the baby. It's really nice and all the staff
> we met were friendly and helpful. The baby's fine and mum and baby are
> both doing well.
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> We took the time to ask a couple of questions we had and also they gave us
> a look round the centre. There's a huge birthing pool which Gem liked the
> look of as she's said a couple of times that she'd like a water birth.
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> The rooms where you stay after the birth are nice. I can stay overnight
> and there's tea and coffee making facilities in each room as well as an on
> sweet loo and shower.
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> More proof that I've got know idea about what happens after the birth as I
> was under the impression that for the first couple of nights the Baby
> stays in like the baby ward and Gem and I can go and see her. That's not
> actually the case. In each of the rooms there's a cot so the baby sleeps
> with us from day 1.
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> We've both got a really good feeling about the centre and staff and it's
> stopped some of my worries I was having.
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> Write that's it for tonight.
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> Keep the fantastic comments coming. I read every one of them.
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> Take care.
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> Nick.
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