"After what felt like weeks of frustrating false starts I woke at 4:00am Monday morning thinking surely today is the day!
Contractions were coming on about 5 minutes apart and I was setting myself in for a loooong day (my last labour was 26hrs from the first contraction).
By 5:30am the contractions were already 2 minutes apart and lasting up to a minute - the pain went from manageable to pretty intense over that hour and I started thinking wow i can’t remember it being this bad last time!
After an hour of this I started feeling like I could almost start pushing… but thought surely not - it’s only been 2.5 hours!
To try and distract myself and pass the time we went to my parents thinking maybe we could spend some time there but were only there 30 mins before I asked James to call my midwife to see if we should go in to hospital … one contraction on the phone was enough for her to tell us to head in straight away… Thankfully Mum offered to drive us (in Dads car) so that James was in the back with me…
That was the most painful car ride of my life … we hit what seemed like infinite school traffic and every red light.
A few minutes away from the hospital … my waters broke (in the back seat sorry dad) As soon as my waters broke I knew I couldn’t hold baby in any longer….
I saw the hospital from afar I knew help was close enough and I let my body do what it was wanting to…
Little Bonnie was born in the backseat of my dads car as we pulled into the hospital car park - delivered by Her mum and dad.
We checked the cord was not around her and rubbed her back to help her take her first few breaths. Mum ran in to find a midwife and a few minutes later what seemed like a hundred midwives and nurses surrounded our car! We entered the hospital with our healthy little girl on my chest!
So thankful God went before us and kept us all safe through that wild ride! Sorry again dad for the mess in your car!"
