Leanne Morton tells her birth story: 'On December 7th 2007, I was 2 weeks overdue and 2 midwives came over to my flat to induce me.
After they did that they checked my blood pressure and realised it was high and I had to go into hospital for a check up and maybe stay over.
At home on 9th December I was at home and about 9pm I got these light tightenings in my stomach. I called the midwife and asked her about it and she said it sounds like contractions so she advised me to get some rest.
My husband was working and I told him I think my contractions have started, so he waited until he finished work as he felt it was too soon to stop working.
At 5am I hardly slept, my husband slept in the living room and left me to it even though I was in pain, but he couldn't help.
At 10am I had an appointment at the women and children's hospital and told them I was having contractions. As they were keeping me on a monitor to keep a check on my baby's movements, they decided I should stay as my contractions seemed quite close.
About 9pm they inserted a tablet to help my birth come faster. By 11pm my husband had been told to go home, and half an hour later my waters broke.
I decided to get a bath as I needed pain relief for the pain and to get out of the room as the other women were trying to sleep. So after my bath, the midwives called for my husband to return and they sent us to the delivery floor.
I was given a delivery room and a choice of pain relief. I chose epidural and was given gas and air.
I decided to take only gas and air as it was very helpful and relieving , but my epidural was about to begin and too late to change my mind.
I had a good night's sleep from the epidural and at 12pm one of the midwives told me I was 10cm dilated. So I started to get nervous but was calm.
My mum and sister kept phoning me all the way to check I was okay, and I last spoke to them just before giving birth.
At 1pm on 11th December 2007 I started pushing on the midwife's say, as I couldn't feel contractions - and 40 minutes later Amir was born weighing 6lbs 11oz.
Amir was laid down, didn't cry but looked around the room! '
