Amber Emma Montgomery

My new (and only daughter) arrived today (well, yesterday I guess now - 09th August) and she is simply beautiful.
She arrived by an B class emergency c-section at 18.30 weighing in at 8lb and 5oz.
Emma and daughter well, boys just getting along fine.
Here are the details of the day.

We decided to take Max to Nursery by walking today, this was primarily because Max wanted to walk. After dropping him off we went for breakfast at a local coffee shop where Emma first started to notice twinges. They weren't regular and fairly sproadic within a 15 minute window.
We carried on walking home and headed off to hospital at noon for a routine checkup as Emma was 12 days overdue.

In the monitoring the twinges got more distinct and after a trace (monitoring heart rate) she examined Emma to find she was already 4 cm (out of 10cm) dilated. Since it didn't feel too much the midwife agree to let us go home and get some lunch but to come back in straight away. We left there at around 1pm and by the time we got home things ramped up. Contractions were coming in at under 2 minutes and there was a real fear we weren't gonna make to the hospital.
We did though, and found that Emma had amazingly managed to go from 4cm to fully dilated in about 3 hours, which is incredible.

However, after a lot of pain and pushing the midwifes examined the head to find it was coming down brow first (called brow presentation) - a baby in this position cannot come through a womans pelvis and unfortunatley and dissapointingly it could only mean a c-section. Unlike Max, who's c-section was an emergency and was rushed out a resusatated in front of us, this was much more calmer as Amber was well and heart rate was great. They took there time and baby came out crying (which was a great sound). The surgeon who was a plastic surgeon also promised to tidy up Emma's old scar and make the new one even better.

Amber weighed in at an amazing 8lb 5oz and considering that the neatness and smallness many commented on of her bump, blew us away.

So there we go, story of my day.
For the record I wanted to say how proud I was of my wife. She was strong and brave and beautiful. She made me so proud as a husband and a dad and I know she is going to be a great mother again, to all of us. Thankyou my precious precious wife. XX