My new DGD...

Good news and bad vamp- wonderful that the little girl is here but your poor DD. I'm sure she'll need to recover from that awful delivery both physically and mentally. Meanwhile congratulations!

So pleased that Mum and baby are both well now but what a dreadful experience for them both. I do hope that you will all be able to recover from it soon and enjoy what should be such a precious time.

Congratulations vamp. Give your DD a hug from me. She has my sympathy, I was almost in the same condition with DS. He got stuck and had to be pulled out. They dislocated his shoulder in the process, and he was navy blue!! He needed several minutes of oxygen to come round. All was well though, he's 30 now. Hope that lovely little GD forgets the trauma soon, and grows up to have a sunny disposition.
to you all.

Congratulations vampire I hope mum and baby both feel better soon! Poor things. It's dreadful that lack of staff should be the cause of such a difficult birth.

What a traumatic experience for your poor DD and the little one. for all of you and welcome to the world, baby girl. It won't always be as bad as this!

Congratulations vampire glad they are both safe and well. Your DD will need to recover from that dreadful delivery.

, Vampire and DD. Does DGD have a name yet?

Congratulations on your new dgd! Hope your daughter recovers quickly from what sounds like a dreadful delivery. My dd had similar experience as dgs was presenting shoulder first. She haemorrhaged and thought she was dying. Glad all has ended well and lucky you, two new little ones to love.

Poor girl, what an awful, traumatic experience for her. So pleased my DD went for an elective C-section, as she was told afterwards by the surgeon that a vaginal delivery would have been very difficult given the baby's position and she would almost certainly have ended up in theatre for a section anyway. And after how many long and painful hours?

And I'm so pleased your DD and DGD came through all the trauma safely! Big congratulations to all of you and lots of good wishes for your DD's speedy recovery. for you and for your DD xx

How lovely it is to hear of new Gnet babies - many congratulations to all!

I am sorry to hear how traumatic it was for her - but it is behind her now and you can all heave a sigh of relief.

A similar thing happened with my DD and her first. When she was already overdue I had received a call from her to say that the midwife had been round and taken her BP, and had said that the machine must be faulty as it could not be that high! Needless to say it was that high. When I eventually saw her in labour several days later, I could have wept. She was like a balloon - her limbs, feet, hands, face, neck all swollen beyond recognition - and she was coated in a rash on every available space of her. She had a long painful labour that eventually ended in a CS - the baby was back to back. Action should have been taken sooner - there is no doubt of that.

So I know just how you feel vq and the only thing to do is to rejoice that all is now well and enjoy your lovely new GD.

Poor mum and baby. I hope they are both feeling better now. I can sympathise - a very intense labour necessitated a forceps delivery of DS1. I was exhausted and so was he. 44 years later, I know he was worth every moment of that labour. Enjoy your new GD, VQ

Congratulations to you all VQ your poor DD. glad the traumatic experience had a safe outcome

Congratulations VQ! Sorry to hear about the tough time your DD went through, hope she makes a quick recovery. My DiL is expecting her 2nd baby in November, you've got me worried now.... X

Many congratulations on the new baby and I do hope your DD is resting comfortably now. My DD had a similar experience in Addenbrookes but all turned out well in the end - didn't have any more babies though.

Congratulations on your new DGD VQ

Congratulations to you and your DD, vq

Congratulations vq Thank goodness they are both ok. Enjoy your first cuddles.

Congratulations to all. Try and put it behind you and really enjoy the new member of the family.

VG Congratulations!I hope your daughter gets over the stress of the delivery and the "grumpy baby" gets more cheerful. She probably will when she unfolds from that squashed baby look.

So sorry to hear of that bad experience, vq. It sounds like the staff were under dreadful pressure and not able to deal with things as they would have wanted. Very worrying for everyone.
Congratulations to all, though, on the arrival of your strapping and grumpy DGD

congratulations VQ to you and your family,sorry to hear your poor girl had such a rough time .....to wet the baby's head x

Congratulations vampirequeen to you and your family
I'm not surprised that the little one is scowling-she's probably got on hell of a headache!
Poor lass, and baby, hope both are doing well now x

Lovely news, congratulations to all Sorry it was such an unnecessarily traumatic and painful arrival, but pleased to hear the baby arrived safely - if grumpily!