| Nova Kathleen Ebba Stevenson The first 10 days. |
It all started around 8pm Tuesday 11th March while painting our apartment. Malin had been running up and down ladders and jumping around having decided that now was a good time to have a baby. We called the babysitter for Luka and then the Hospital who told us that the local Hospital was full and we would have to go to Upsala hospital instead. I said "OK" , hung up and went to check the map.... |
I forgot to mention that Luka was sick with a fever so I had to come home , and I don't drive. So although we had a lift to the Hospital , I was going to have to travel to and from the hospital with public transport . I called them back and they said we could come in and they would squeeze us in somewhere. HUGE sighs of relief!! |
Our good friend Jocke gave us a lift to the hospital around 9pm, by which time Malin was starting to pant a little and actually swore at me when I took this photograph! |
| When we got to the Hospital , We were taken into a birthing room and Malin was told, much to her distress, that she was too far gone to be given any pain relief, for the squeamish I shall omit the details of the next couple of hours, except to say they involved 1 midwife pushing down on her belly while another shouted "PUSH!!" and a doctor pulled on something resembling a stainless steel vacuum cleaner atached to a chain. It was all quite medievil , but then I suppose they knew what they were doing because at 11.36 pm out popped little Nova. |
Good work by all concerned!! Malin has commented that it was without a doubt the worst thing she has experienced to date, but worth every second! |
Even at this early stage some signs of Novas personality are begining to show. She is calm and relaxed and hardly ever screams unlike her big brother who spent his first few months mostly doing this.... |
| And Nova is much more like this... |
| But they love each other already!!! |
