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Saturday 16th July 2005
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Erm . . . today was a long day. As I've already said in the previous day's entry, sleep wasn't really a feature of last night. Contractions now coming thick and fast. Now with a delivery room available, Helen dropped M**** and I off at the hospital, along with all our bags and stuff. Epidural time. So the epidural was done some time early afternoon, I believe. After that, the pair of us were able to snatch a few hours of sleep here and there. Later on that day, the mid-wife had to inform M**** that she was fully dilated as she would otherwise have had no way of knowing. The down-side to all of this is that M**** was now unable to walk and, even with the epidural out, the effects of the drug would take a few days to wear off.
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Probably around 7 to 8pm (not exactly sure when), M****'s pain had pretty much gone, full dilation was several hours off, and so Helen and Stu came up to the hospital. The hospital rules state that only one visitor (either partner or nominated birthing partner) can be with M**** at any one time. In order to let Helen stay with M**** for a bit, I swapped places and Stu and I went to a nearby pub. Goes without saying: mobile phone was on and awaiting any news.
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