05-16-12

Mother’s Day

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~

05-08-12

May bees don’t fly in April

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 ♥

04-18-12

A few thoughts in my last weeks of pregnancy

It feels really strange to think that we will have a real, live baby in the house soon. The other day B. and I were making plans for later in the month and I said offhandedly, ‘well, he’ll be here sometime in the next three weeks’. Then we both looked at each other and laughed! It’s so surreal not knowing an exact date but knowing it is very, very soon.

Some things I have noticed lately:

• The ‘did you have the baby yet?’ messages have began. I had three people in one day check up on me. All I can say is I’m still here, and still pregnant, hehe.
• When strangers ask how soon I am due and I tell them, they start to look at me worriedly like I am about to go into labour in the next .5 seconds and have the baby on their shoes. I promise I’m not!
• I never realised how restless I would feel once I started maternity leave. Sometimes I just feel like pacing back and forth, but as a bonus the house is always clean! I really thought I’d be relaxed (and I am, for the most part) but I’m feeling a bit like I don’t know what to do with myself too…
• I can go from super happy to super grouchy (and then back again) very quickly.
• I have about three things that I can wear which still fit me. I’m so excited about being able to wear different clothes once I have a waistline again~
• I’m also looking forward to eating all of the ‘not in pregnancy’ foods, especially soft cheese. I’m going to have a love date with a big wedge of Camembert and some crackers :9
• All of the sweet comments you have all left me on here about my pregnancy really make my day. You’re the best, blog friends!

So right now, life just goes on while I wait to have this baby! We’re still running errands and making plans for our free time. But there is such a strong feeling of anticipation in the background of everything ♥

04-08-12

A little bed

We used part of the Easter weekend to move around some furniture to make space for Bebe’s arrival. Somehow we both imagined that our bedroom was much bigger, but in the end everything fit and the room feels much fresher with a new layout~

The nursery corner still needs some finishing touches, and I can’t wait to see how it will look once there are pictures on the wall, and the little mobile I plan to make has been finished. Right now it feels very strange to lie in bed and look across to see a cot! Strange, but nice too.

03-07-12

Baby library

I’ve always loved reading, and of course being a librarian means I can get a little excited about books. We’ve started building a baby library for Felix, with some lovely baby shower gifts, and some of my childhood favourites ♥

What were your favourite children’s books? I love all of the classics, but it’s been fun discovering new titles too, like ‘I want my hat back‘, and the ‘Don’t let the pigeon…’ series.