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 ♥

04-30-12

Happy Monday!

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!

04-23-12

39 weeks

I’m feeling a little impatient, a little excited, and a little terrified. I’m wondering if this baby is going to be born in April or May? Whatever happens he should be here in time for Mother’s Day, so I am daydreaming about what to request for my celebratory breakfast in bed~

Pretty much all I want to do right now is be cosy inside on the sofa (I love you, rainy weather!) and eat a lot of snacks. I am so hungry all of the time! I’ve been making big, healthy breakfasts which just seem to make me hungrier. I am pretty sure all of my food is going right to make this baby nice and fat, so I’m enjoying lots of treats and trying to fit some fresh fruit in here and there :9

I’ve been having lots of Braxton Hicks and little crampy twinges, Bebe is head down and about 1/5ths engaged. So at least things are all getting ready to do what they need to do when the time comes.

My due date is this Friday, so if I’m still pregnant by then I plan to go to what might be my last antenatal yoga class. I’m going to miss those classes so much!

And then maybe I will get a big hot chocolate with lots of whipped cream on my way home ♥

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 ♥