Rose Erica Lise Blackburn arrived at 16.29 on 19th Spetember, weighing 6lbs 12ozs and 4 weeks early. After all my worrying about having a giant baby, she’s a wee thing who doesn’t fit into any of the clothes or knitwear I have for her, but she is a sweetheart. 
I should have known something was up last Friday when I got the urge to clean out the fridge! The following morning, I started having mild contractions but because I was convinced that she would be late like her brothers, I ignored them til lunchtime when it became clear that it was probably the real thing. Because the acceptable range for a homebirth is 37 to 42 weeks, I called my wee sister to come over and look after the boys so that Mr B and I could go to hospital. Wasn’t happy about this at all, but I was getting past caring.
Unfortunately, or fortunately perhaps, by the time my sister arrived and I managed to get dressed to go to the hospital, it became obvious to me that she wasn’t going to hang around and so Mr B called the hospital to get the midwives to come out which they did, with the advice to call 999 if the baby started arriving before them. Which she did! *gory bit coming up which you might want to skip over* My waters broke at that point, so Mr B called 999 and then had to get down the business end to see if he could see the head. Which he couldn’t, but he could see feet..! Everything went a bit mad at that point as the midwives and paramedics all arrived and seeing that she was breech, it became a bit hairy. I was fortunate because I couldn’t see what was going on as I wason all fours concentrating on pushing, whereas Mr B could see that she was coming out all blue.
After what seemed like forever, she slipped out and after another age, she started crying. She was whisked away in one ambulance and I was taken away in another one. I had to be wheeled onto the ambulance on a stretcher which I felt was a bit unnecessary, but I think made the best entertainment the street had seen for ages, baased on the large group of children watching from across the street!
Despite her unconventional arrival, Rose was fine and after staying overnight on the maternity ward (where I got not a wink of sleep thanks to various comings and goings and the women on my right snoring like a warthog) we went home on Sunday morning.
Now I just plan to spend the next couple of weeks being waited on hand and foot. 
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She’s beautiful, congratulations! It all sounds like high drama, but all is well that ends well! She now has plenty of time to grow into the knitwear!
Congratulations to you and welcome to the world, Rose! At least you know you didn’t knit anything too small!
Oh Kate, congratulations, she’s precious! And what a beautiful name, I’m sending all my love to you and little Rose (and the rest of the family
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Congratulations to you! What a scary time it must have been, but with a wonderful ending. Enjoy being pampered! Hope to see a modelled hat photo very soon!
Congratulations! I hope that this is the most excitement you ever have with her and the rest of it is smooth sailing!
awwww bless – she’s lovely – massive congratulations to you! I thought you’d been a bit quiet lately, was starting to get worried… that’s awesome news – big hugs to you both! xx
Many congratulations, Kate! She’s beautiful and what a gorgeous name. Make the most of being waited on and enjoy the precious time with your new bundle of joy x
Congratulations Kate and the rest of the Blackburn family
She is beautiful and will be fitting into that knitwear before you know it!
I suspected that the long silence was because The Bump had decided it was time. Then I worried that maybe something had gone wrong.
Well, things DID go wrong, but you both came through it OK! Happy Days!
What a lovely name for a little wee girl. What do her big brothers think of all this?
Oh Congratulatins! She’s a doll! I’m glad you both got through the birth ok. It sounds like it was really scary there!
Congratulations!!!! Sounds a lot like my daughter’s entry into the world – OMG 13 years ago now!
Take care of yourself and make the most of all the pampering you can get!
Congratulations Kate!!! She’s absolutely beautiful!
Woohoo!! Congratulations and a very warm welcome to Rose Erica Lise. She’s gorgeous.
Congratulations!
And, sure, it seems like you had a bumpy ride there, but think of the story you’ll be able to embarrass her with!
She’s beautiful, congratulations!
Phew! And she’ll have a special story that’s a bit different to other kiddos too! Congratulations to you all.
Congratulations! She is gorgeous. What an arrival! Take care, all 5 of you!
Congratulations. When she grows up you can embarrass her with tales of the drama she helped create by her early arrival. But, thank goodness all’s well that ends well!
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Welcome to the world, little Rose Erica Lise – your life is already blessed with a great family – especially your two big brothers – and lots and lots and lots of knitwear
Congratulations on th birth of your gorgoeus daughter. She certainly made an unforgetable entrance! Glad things are going well.
Congratulations from me too. That was a dramatic entrance for Rose, worthy of an episode of Casualty, but such happy news and you certainly do deserve to take things easy for quite a while.
Well done Kate she is lovely. Wondered where you had got to and am glad everything turned out well. Extra points for managing to even turn your computer on let alone doing such a detailed post, it seemed to take me months to even get off the couch!
Congratulation, and welcome to Rose!!! She’s so lovely! Sounds like an interesting (!) birth, but I’m glad you both got through it OK. Now you take things easy and enjoy being waited on
Eeeeee congratulations! Aww, look at her, and what a pretty name, too.
Enjoy being waited on. =D
Massive congratulations to you all, she is utterly adorable.x.
Congratulations, Kate! The little one is beautiful. Take care of yourself and get plenty of rest!
Congrats on your precious new arrival. She really is gorgeous. I also wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying knitting one of your sock patterns “Catherine”. I am from South Africa, and still consider myself quite a novice sock knitter. Up until now I had only knitted a few pairs of socks from a set of free patterns that came with some sock wool. So yours is the first “non” South African pattern that I have knitted, and I have LOVED every minute of it!! I just wanted to say “thanks” for your lovely pattern.
She is absolutely gorgeous
Congratulations. Great day to be born on, it is also my birthday on the 19th lol
Just caught up with your news as I was on holiday, so huge congratulations on the birth of Rose, hope you are all now getting used to each other. Keep us updated on progress
Congratulations!!! I’m so glad she arrived safely and you are both well. She just wanted to get a head start on life, coming early and feet first.
Congratulations and well done!!! I am so glad you are all doing okay! She is gorgeous!!!
Many congratulations!! So glad you are both okay !
Congratulations on your baby girl glad everthing is good ??
congratulations! she looks grand, glad she made it out ok. i love her name, so sweet and a bit old-fashioned. hope you’re having fun with her!
I’m more than a bit behind here – congrats to you and your family. What a lovely little girl. I’m so happy that it turned out right!!
Love and hugs!
Dear KateB,
One hundred zillion congratulations. You have the most gorgeous daughter and she will grow to bring you so much happiness (and a bit of stress through the teenage years but we won’t go there just yet!) Hope she’s starting to settle and feed well.
Best of all, she has the same birthday as my Mum so she should turn out calm, levelheaded, beautiful, intelligent and very loving. What more can you ask? Fliss xx
Congratulations! She’s your best FO yet.
She’s beautiful!! Congratulations!