Mother’s day flowers! ♥

Last Sunday I celebrated my very first Mother’s Day!

B. made me pancakes, which were topped with lemon & sugar, using lemons from our own lemon tree. It has had green fruit on it since Christmas time, and the lemons magically ripened just as we came home from hospital, so it was a nice part of our little celebration.

I wanted to take a photo with Felix and my fancy breakfast, but he started fussing to be fed right away, and the one photo we managed to take turned out all blurry. It seems like life with a baby means being very flexible about plans! Anyway, my pancakes were delicious, and I have a photo of the pretty flowers my mum and mother-in-law gave me, and lots of nice memories.

Next year Bebe will have just turned one so I think it will be another very special Mother’s Day~

Bebe has arrived! Felix Stanley was born on the 2nd of May at 5.50am. 3.5kg, 49cm long. I guess he wanted a May birthday after all!

Thank you so much for all the lovely congratulations we have received so far. It means so much to me and it makes me so happy ♥ You’re all the best!

So much hair! // Little baby feets!

My labour was… intense. Altogether I was in active labour for almost 24 hours, and I got to 5cm dilated while labouring at home. Getting into the deep bath after we arrived at the birthing centre felt so amazing. The contractions were nothing like I’d expected at all. Somehow I’d thought I would be able to move and breathe and position my body to cope with the pain but it was just unescapable. It was a real ‘please let me get out of my body!’ type of pain.

I had wanted to have a water birth but I was trying to push him out for almost three hours and ended up having an assisted delivery and a third degree tear. When he was born the first thing B. said was ‘Oh my god, he’s HUGE!’. I have to laugh because I had such a tiny pregnant belly and ended up with a huge, fat baby. And I managed to do the whole thing with no drugs (including the ventouse/forceps part of the delivery) which was my main goal. I feel so proud of myself.

All the staff at the hospital kept commenting on how cute he was ♥ And all that hair! No wonder I had such awful heartburn.

Me at 40 weeks- where was he hiding? // First walk in the pram.

Yesterday was my first trip out of the house since getting home. I went to the chiropractor and then B. took me to get a soft serve ice cream on the way home (so good, so worth the wait). It felt so good to be out in the fresh air after being in hospital and then inside for so long. Today we took our first walk in the pram, all the way around the block to the mailbox to post his birth registration. Little steps! But now that I’m starting to feel better and get some more sleep I’m feeling very ready to rejoin the world~

Sleepy face!

Little thoughts on (almost) a week of motherhood:

• It feels so surreal that tomorrow will be a week since he arrived.
• I still can’t really believe that B. and I are parents now!
• I’m shocked (and pleased!) at how quickly my body has bounced back, especially considering my delivery. I couldn’t get out of bed for almost two days and then when I got home I felt like a shuffling old woman, but now I’m already starting to feel back to myself.
• It is so funny how after being awake all night (and I mean all night), a few hours of sleep feels amazing. So did lying on my stomach for the first time in I don’t know how long. It was bliss.
• I thought I would miss my baby belly, but it’s actually really nice to have a little tummy again, to fit into some of my old clothes, and to be able to move around more comfortably.
• I’m so full of love for our little baby boy ♥

Over the weekend I:

• Ate delicious home-made pancakes (thank you B. ♥).
• Finished the mobile for above Felix’s crib.
• Waited and watched impatiently for this April baby who is probably going to be born in May.
• Ate McDonalds for lunch, twice. I think my cravings for greasy fries will be gone for at least another month now…
• Went to a garage sale at a local vintage store and found some fun treasures.
• Got a pedicure, which didn’t send me into labour. But it was nice and I have pretty toes now~
• Read a lot of Australian country living blogs and daydreamed about moving to a little farm cottage somewhere.
• Made an amazing curry, the best type of dinner for eating in this cosy Autumn weather!
• Really wished I had a big pile of magazines to read.

My new perfect winter boots! And they were on sale too ♥

Today I will:

• Go to yoga class.
• Keep watching and waiting… and try to be patient.
• Walk to the library to borrow some magazines.
• Make banana bread. And not eat the entire loaf at once.
• Take some pictures of the nursery corner.
• Enjoy delicious home-made pizza for dinner :9

Pictures are from our little outing to the Botanic Gardens last week… It was so pretty there!

Happy weekend! Here are some things that I am loving at the moment:

• This moon cradle from Creme Anglaise is so amazing!
• I think xMotherx might be my favourite etsy store right now. I have dreams of going to live in the country where I will bake lots of things while wearing one of these pretty aprons…
• Montessori-inspired wooden toys are so nice. I especially like this hand kite and these wooden eggs.
• I love Talia Chirstine’s basket makeover DIY. I would have a whole house full of cute wicker baskets if I had room~



• I love these colourful melamine plates from Huset. I think the lion is my favourite.
• This might be the best (and easiest) banana bread recipe I’ve found! Very important for this house where we only like just ripe bananas. I made it the other day and used golden syrup instead of honey :9
• I just love the illustration styles in vintage children’s books.
• These arrow brushes for Photoshop are really cute!
• The beautiful photos in Hila’s post about Melbourne is making me want to go on there on a little holiday very badly.

My due date has passed, and we’re still waiting for Bebe. My midwife is coming back on Wednesday next week to give me a stretch & sweep to see if we can encourage things along, if I’m still pregnant by then. Only 6% of babies arrive on their due date, and a ‘full term’ pregnancy is between 37-42 weeks, so I’m feeling pretty relaxed. I know he’ll be coming out eventually!

We finally have some Autumn weather, which means lots of pretty leaves. Autumn doesn’t seem last very long here- I don’t think we get the right kind of ‘crisp’ cold that makes the leaves change (and a lot of our trees aren’t deciduous), but I’m glad for the little bits of colour.

I do love this time of year. Being cosy inside, smelling wood fires, drinking lots of hot tea. So perfect.

(And yes, we’re still waiting for this baby to arrive. I’m going back and forth between being so excited to meet him soon, and already knowing that I will miss having him in my belly~)