Elijah Antoine van der Gaag

For those that do not know yet our beautiful baby boy
Elijah Antoine van der Gaag has finally arrived into the world :)

He was born on the 28th of March at 9:35 am weighing in at 8lbs 5oz


It all started on Friday morning at 2am with lot of contraction
pain for the whole day, so the midwife asked to come over to
Hamilton and meet her at the birth centre at 2 pm when the
contractions had got lots closer. So we got the car all pack up
and dropped Chloe off with aunty Jess and went to the birth
centre.But that is where it gets interesting, and very frustrating!!!
By the time we had got to the birth centre the contraction had
slowed down L and baby was not ready to come out, so had to
wait some more time and do lots of walking to bring on labour.



So throughout the whole day and night, every time I walked
around the contractions would slow down, but every time I
sat down the contraction got stronger.So we stayed at jess
the night and finally on Saturday morning it was time to head
back to the birth centre, but by the time we got there is all
slowed down again ........ come on baby !!!!!!

But they were able to break my waters so finally it all started
progressing very fast, so into the water. But the midwife was
getting very concerned as baby’s heart rate was going down
with every contraction, so we had to hop out of the water just
in case we had to go to the hospital. But as soon as I hopped out,
that baby boy was is in a hurry, and he was coming out so was
not going to make it back to the bed. So back into the water and
10 min later the most beautiful baby boy I have ever seen arrived.


And he was all ok happy and healthy....Funny thing when I
was getting sorted out, Erik was holding Elijah on his chest,
and he tried to feed off Erik lol .....