We made it!!

Well here I am on the otherside of child birth, and all  can say is "Thank goodness that is over and I never have to do it again." I am definitely not one of those mother earth types that thinks birthing is a beautiful thing. I can think of tonnes of adjectives to describe giving birth but beautiful would definitely NOT be one!
I did have a water birth which was a good option. I was whaling around in the bath secretly cursing and blaming all this pain on Eve. If she had not eaten that apple I would be having none of this knife stabbing pain. "its all her fault!!!"  I think Dean was thinking he was pretty lucky to be escaping any abuse and was happy to load it all up on poor old Eve!
The whole ordeal I will call it went for 8 hours from the first contraction to the birth.Unfortunalty we are a bit ripped off in this area because they actually only count " labour" from when it is " established"  Which effectively is when the contractions are on top of each other and you just want to die! Which for me, would count as 4 hours. I mean to say.. its' not like the first 4 hours weren't bad enough. I spent them bent over in the shower wanting to vomit the pain was so bad.. but OH NO we don';t count that!!!, That's not what you'd call exactly fun is it? So that;s why I think it must have been a man who made up these rules because if it was a Man GIVING birth they would be counted from the onset to get the full impact. I mean come ON look at how they behave when they have touch of a cold, you would think they were on their death bed.Or when they catch a fish.. we get EVERY minute detail about how BIG it was SO imagine them in child birth, they would DEFINITELY be documenting labour from the first contraction!   Now don't get me wrong I love men and I definitively am not a feminist but I do have to think that they made up these " it doesn't count unless its established labour' rules. But if they were  made up by woman ... we are not very kind to ourselves are we?!
 I mean crikey if the birth alone is not bad enough then we have to have after pains! What is all that about! It's not like we are going to forget in a hurry the trauma we've just been through. But I guess just incase we do manage to block it from our memory we are forced, through the after pains to remember it for a week or more afterwards. Did Eve eat the apple AND the core or something!
SO I gave birth to the most beautiful baby girl which was a shock in itself because I would have put a BET on down at the TAB on it being a boy as it was EXACTLY the same pregnancy as with Mattie and so different to the other 2 girls. Anyway good thing I am a procrastinator and never made that bet, because I would have lost all my money! She was the size of a good boy. at 9lb5  56 cm and born at 1239 to be exact on the 11.10.11. Fully stoked on that easy to remember date! Thankyou GOD! Her name is Molly Anaiah.
SO Alice wanted to know if I was having another baby because I still had my big tummy! Hmm well thanks alot Alice. That unfortunately is another RIP off about having a baby. ONE would expect to be able to walk out of hospital in a pair of non preggy jeans? Right? well some can, but for most of us... but NO NO NO Not a chance.. infact those preggy clothes will be the only things that will fit for about the next 2, ok, lets be real here we'll make that 5 years, while I get round to doing something about  getting rid of that spare tyre the baby has gifted me! Well as it turns out Alice the 4 yr old wasn't the only one who was confused. On my first public outting, there were quite a few who commented on the fact that I" STILL hadn't had that baby"!! Does wonders for one's self image!
Anyway she is proving to be a good baby which is good as we are 13 days in to it. I don't know where the time has gone!
Alice suggested that I would have to cut off my boobies and give them to someone else to put on so they can feed the baby while I am.... I'm not sure what she thought I would be doing, but it obviously wasn't shopping of a new size 10 wardrobe that's for sure!!
Deano scored it. He got he call up to go away the day she was born. SO I got home from the hospital on Thursday afternoon (after 2 nights in) and by Friday 5.30 the next morning, he was GONE for a month! So he is thinking he is pretty lucky to have scored himself a months worth of full nights sleep. Feels like he has been gone for EVER but is only been a week! GROAN!
Oh well atleast we won the Rugby world cup! That would have been almost worse than child birth if we had lost that AGAIN!

Glad to be on the otherside of  the baby and the world cup. BIG sighs of relief on both counts. All is looking pretty good from here on in!

Lots of love from Lanzie land x

3 days over due

I was packing my bags for the hospital yesterday and feeling really good about being so organised, patting myself on the back and generally feeling like a legend when Mum reminded me that ..I was infact 3 days over due! Nothing like a bite of reality to keep ones feet on the ground!
I think this baby is enjoying the benefits of my self indulgent attitude while pregnant. It is LOVING the caramel slice that Mum has got me addicted to, and all the other foods that I would normally deprived myself of  like the potato chips that keep automatically keep finding their way onto my mouth with out me even noticing? So why would you want  to come out if you had that to eat all the time? Because I have all the best intentions to start eating responsibly once the baby is here!( as I always do, but the reality is that I don't usually get round to doing anything about it until about 10 months!) So actually it suits me for this baby to hang out as long as it wants, giving me the licence to indulge myself till my hearts content as I only seem to notice the piled on kgs once the baby is out! Mean while I will continue to lap up all the compliments flying my way about how great I am looking.It's the time in my life, 7-9 months pregnant, that people will stop and tell me how great I look. SO for about 2-3 months 4 times in my life I look great! SO I love being pregnant!! I wonder if I could push the boundary with the husband and get ONE more child!!!!! Just 1 more?

The rugby world cup  is on at the moment and Wales have just beaten Ireland in the quarter final. Ireland were the favourites, So an exciting game. But I have strict instructions for the baby not to be born until atleast tomorrow after the All blacks have played Argentina. So I am guess this baby will grace us with its presence for atleast the semi finals of the rugby world cup!

Test Photo

Due date

Here we are 4.15 am wide awake.. and not by the labour pains that are due to kick off today or even by the 4 yr old scratching her skin like an old sea dog,  thanks to excema, but by a 2 yr old who has had a nightmare. I cuddle up next to her and she reminds me that I have a baby in my tummy, and asks "when it is going to come out?" I ask her if she thinks it will be today and she says "yes" and that "it will be a girl," and we will call it "girl" She is clearly extreamely creative and imaginitive !!
It is a special day today. It is my sons best mate back in NZ's b'day today he is 7. A bit bummed not to be there I thought that him and his buddies would all grow up together, but here we are, in an unexpected twist.. in WA we have been here for just over 1 year. So it would be nice to have this baby share this date with Tom Hannon in Raglan, home of the longest left hand surf break and lots of my amazing beautiful friends who I miss so much. On the other hand it would be good to have the date 9/10/11 or the 10/10/11 or even the 11/10/11, I am going for easy to remember dates as I hard enough time remembering the dates of the 3 kids I have already!
However at the moment Mattie ( the 6 yr old) has got the man flu and is vomiting with high fevers, and I have a skin specialist appt for Alice's (4 yr old) excema today so I'm a bit busy to have a baby today anyway!
We will see!

Will tomorrow be the day?

 I have been totally surrounded by all these fully creative chicks who really, are quite intimidating with all their skills and cleverness, but at the same time they are really encouraging and inspiring... SO it is because of them and their encouragement that I am here.. I have become one of THEM... a blogger and a sewer... OK well I shouldn't really claim the sewer part just yet, as I have only just sewed a few ( not so straight lines) to resemble a skirt for my 2 year old. but I am going to keep going and make a few more and hopefully soon I will know what I am really doing!
This blogging and sewing is also a desperate bid to keep myself occupied and my mind off the pending birth of my 4th child which is due tomorrow! I have got a 2 yr old (girl) a 4 yr old (girl) and a 6 yr old (boy) and it is kind of true that you DO forget about the AWFUL pains of birthing.. until they come back to haunt you in the form of Braxton Hicks and then you remember only too vividly exactly what it's like and what is coming to you any day now! Every day for the last week or too, I have gone to bed SURE that this is going to be it, I'm up in the night wide awake nursing my aching back, only to go back to bed and waking up in the morning... still intact! If this is a way to get me use to getting up in the night again.. I don't need it thanks very much. I have a 4 yr old who still hasn't really ever slept through the night, so the night and I are well acquainted! It is her that I will blame for my grey hair and wrinkles! I hope she will be rich one day because she will be paying for a face lift before I am 50!
I really thought that there is NO WAY that I would make it this far in my pregnancy. I had to "slow down"at 28 weeks as I thought it was all going to happen then... then I thought Id have it about 3 weeks early and every day since then... My Mum has arrived from NZ, Toe nails are painted, (No bikini wax this time though) baby shower had, photos taken, All blacks on wining streak in Rugby world cup (even though Daniel Carter is out with a groin injury... BOO!! but that's a whole different subject) husband is home, and we have made it to the 10th month which was a big criteria for me as I have a baby in the 9th month already and I hate doing kids birthdays with a passion so the more spread out they are the better. SO you could say that we are good to go!
My husband knows what we are having but I have no interest in the sex as I realise that we are just so lucky to have a well baby with no complications and that it something that we can't take for granted, so the sex really is secondary. Plus it is good to have a surprise after all that awfulness of labour! SO watch this space!!

Well there is it my first blog and my first skirt today... finished!  Onwards and upwards for me I have entered into a whole new world!!
over and out x