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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3791281" data-attributes="member: 13703">We're now all at home as one big happy family.  I think Mrs Olaf was relieved to leave the hospital.  Having all of the midwives there to support her while she and Sophie learnt to breastfeed was great but there is nothing like being able to sleep in your own bed.  Mrs Olaf doesn't like hospitals at the best of times so spending 5 nights there in a row was more than enough for her.On a slightly separate note, it turns out that we were very fortunate that our little girl made it through the labour.  As I said in a previous post, the baby's umbilical cord was attached to the placenta a bit strangely.  Instead of the 1 strong cord attaching to the placenta, for some reason Sophie's umbilical cord had separated into its 2 veins and 1 artery about 20cm before it it attached to the placenta.This meant that they were much less protected and could have gotten caught up in Sophie's body during the labour, or even sometime during pregnancy.  It wasn't exactly heartening to hear 2 midwives say on separate occasions, "Well at least we would have known what happened if things did go wrong."They obviously said it with a lot more tact but that was basically what they were saying.  We're very lucky that everything went ok because it sounds like there was a big risk that it could have ended very differently.  Of course, the midwives and doctors didn't know about it until after the labour but it is still a little scary for me to think about, especially now that she is here with us.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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