Finally after a fairly traumatic labour Daniel finally came into this world at 15:37 weighing 8lb 1oz. 
It wasn’t an easy day though. I got a call at just after 08:00 today Claire had gone in to labour ward, which sounded like good news as it meant things were finally progressing. However when I got there it turned out they’d moved her to start her on Oxytocin to try and get things going. This started around 09:30 and continued all morning and in to the early afternoon with Claires contractions getting more painful but unfortunately she still wasn’t dilating enough. Around 14:00 Claire had had enough of the pain and asked for an Epidural, this was sorted and she felt a lot better. Around 15:00 the midwives became more worried about the babies heartbeat which had been dipping during contractions for a while, and even I could hear it was getting noticeably slower. After the Doctor had a look they decided to do a crash C-section and within 2 minutes Claire had been rushed off to theatre. I then had the scariest 20 minutes or so of my life while I waited in the recovery room for news of Claire and the baby. The staff were brilliant though and kept checking up on my and let me know as soon as the baby was born and kept me up to date on how Claire was as well. After they’d got him cleaned up they brought him through to me and I got to sit and hold him for half an hour while Claire recovered.
He seems to have come out of his rather traumatic birth fine, and the Doctor said afterwards that now they’d tested the blood from the umbilical cord it probably wasn’t such an emergency as he wasn’t doing too bad, but at least it got it over with I guess
So far he’s a very content baby, barely crying even when he got his Vitamin K shot. He does do a great grumpy face though I’m hopeful this will last but it’s probably the drugs in his system keeping him dozy
Claire is well too, though she’ll be in hospital for a few days recovering. There are a couple of pictures of Daniel below for the interested
