On Tuesday 30th January 2007, Mr Jedrek Frank Gurtman entered the world at 3.43pm, weighing in at 3290g (7.25 pounds). The whole labour experience was very much the most intense, frightening, amazing experience of my life to date. I ended up having to be induced as I had a hind rupture. They allowed me 24hrs to naturally go into labour but unfortunately my contractions would not come regular or strong enough (even after eating curry for breakfast, lunch and tea and walking around the block in my PJ’s one million times!). So on the Tuesday morning, we went to the hospital, I asked for the ‘package’ - the oxytocin and the epidural as I’d heard that the oxytocin brings on the contractions extremely fast and strong and we were already exhausted after not sleeping for 2 days. 3 hours later, I’d painlessly, fully dilated and we were ready to push. I pushed, pushed and pushed for almost 2 hours til my head resembled a tomato, then his heart beat started dropping and they wanted to get him out pretty quick so we had to have a little help with the vacuum. Then out he plopped, with a full head of ash blonde hair - the cutest little guy in the world!
