I don't want to bring any bad vibes onto the website, but I have to say that the birth experience wasn't what I'd been hoping for.
Fortunately, I now have a beautiful bouncy 11 month old baby who is happy and healthy and very very active!
I gave birth in the Hospital General Universitario de Valencia on the 27th October 2007. When we arrived at the labour ward, my partner was sent to register my details at the general reception in another building. That was the last I saw of him until the moment Lucia was born, when they finally allowed him into the delivery suite.

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Warning: it is a bit long... sorry.
On Sunday morning, 19th October, I woke up @ 7 am with contractions every 15 minutes. I was due to go in to hospital for an induction if they hadn’t started by 12 noon that day so I was very pleased. This advice had been given to me by my gyno, who happened not to be linked to the hospital where I was going to give birth. We called the hospital and our doctor and they said to come in in about an hour.

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