Quick update

Was I crazy to think that I would have time to write my birth story so soon? Appears so. In lieu of that I drop you a quick update to say we are doing great, amazingly so if you know my past with things like nursing and uncontrollable crying (me and baby). This time around my breasts have decided to go along with the plan, and I am incredibly grateful about that. Of course I am tired, the cluster feeding is pretty intense, but we are well on our way to having my full milk in. It is like a dream come true for me.

I had to share this crazy cute photo of him where he looks like he is smiling. Yes, the love we have for our children is such an amazing thing. I could cry just looking at this photo.

Thanks to you all for the support. It is appreciate more than you know.

Welcome to the world

He is here. The birth story is an interesting one and I plan on writing it tomorrow while I rest in bed. It looks like I will be home resting for Christmas. Midwifes orders.

Without further ado I introduce D2. Born at 3:18 am on Dec 24th. We came home after the birth and I am so happy we did. Much more comfortable in my bed. Here are the photos. Merry Christmas to all of you. Ours certainly is going to be a special one!

Some day I may look back and laugh

For the last 48 hours I have been having contractions. They have been timed at anywhere from between 10 and 30 minutes apart and they last from 30 to 50 seconds each. According to my midwives I am in pre-labour. This is supposedly not the real thing, and even though I could start real labour at any time, it could also stop at any time. There is no way of knowing.

I am exausted. The contractions are going day and night. Two nights ago I had no idea that I was in pre-labour and got out of bed at 3am to walk around and try and get things moving.

Last night I knew better than to tire myself out by staying up all night, but my sleep was broken up by 2 or 3 contractions an hour. And they hurt. And it sucks.

I wish I had more to say, and I wish I had a photo of a baby to show you. I am heading to my midwife appointment this morning and I hope she can help me get things moving. Today is the baby's actual due date and it is as good a day as any to be born.

I am pretty cranky so I will leave you all with this. My next post will be a gushy baby photo filled post, hopefully with talk of an astonishingly fast and painless labour :)

Thanks for all your support and well wishes!

still here

I have become obsessed with watching "Bringing home baby" and "Baby Story" on TLC each morning while I enjoy my coffee. Mid pregnancy these shows freaked me out. Now I am all teary and excited and can't wait to be there myself. Although I don't plan on pushing while laying on my back. The only think I can think of is that they tell the moms on these shows that they have to lay on their backs because it is easier for the camera to film it. I pushed in a squat with D and I hope to do that again with this little dude. M was a C-section so I had no choice with him :)

I also noticed that all the moms on Baby Story bottle feed and use disposable diapers. I bet it is part of the endorsement rules. I think all the shows I have watched I have seen one child at the breast. Interesting.

Bloggy request

My 8 year old son scored his first goal of the season today. After we returned home from the game I commented that I was going to update my facebook status about it. He ran over to me and said "Blog about it Mom! Blog it!" How could I resist. So here you go. I am blogging about how proud I am of D and how hard he is working at hockey this year. Way to go D!

Since I am here I figured I would give you all an update on how I have been. Last week was super busy with finishing up a bunch of loose ends at work and running errands galore. I am so happy that I have nothing on the schedule this week. Except for maybe have this baby! I mean come on kiddo. It is 10 days from your due date. With the amount of contractions I have been having you would think I was ready to go. But no, not the real thing yet. We have the room set up, I have the clothes all washed, the blankets all stacked, the diapers ready (Thanks Shannon!). I have even been napping every day. I AM READY. Now if only my body would do its part. Other than M's JK Christmas party on Thursday I have no commitments for the next two weeks.

This week we even managed to put up our Christmas tree. For obvious reasons, I am keeping the decorating to a minimum this year. If I don't we could end up with decorations still out in March. So all we did was the tree, the mantle and the outside stuff. It is so amazing to see how much the boys have grown and matured. After setting up the tree, the lights and the garland, Kev and I handed the boys the box of unbreakable decorations and told D to do the top half of the tree, and M to do the bottom half. As far as I am concerned it looks beautiful! Even more so since they decorated it themselves. I haven't so much as rearranged one ornament. They are very proud too, which is nice. I helps that we have a 8 year old who is 4'10" tall. So he had no problem reaching the top of our 6 foot tree.

I haven't had any time to read blogs this week. My reader is at a frightening 853 unread posts. I spend some time visiting my cyber friends this week, I promise! Hope all is well with you all! Take Care.

37 weeks

37 weeks, how will I get through another 3, potentially 4 weeks of this. I feel ready to explode, I am exhausted, I feel useless and I can barely walk anywhere. I don't know if I have mentioned my Braxton Hicks on here before, but I have been having them for months. I have now moved into a stage where I can barely walk without inducing a contraction. So far they haven't evolved into the real thing but on Saturday I was up and about for 4 hours and the resulting 8 hours of contractions had my hubby and I packing my bags and freaking out just a little bit. They stopped when I went to bed that night, but I totally thought they were the real thing. I went to Walmart at lunch today and while there had 4 contractions. It makes walking around hard to do. Now that I am back at work, sitting at my desk, nothing is happening. It is very distracting, and tiring. I really wish they would either stop or be the real thing already.

My last day of work is Dec 11th but I plan on working from home for all of next week. I may even work from home a day this week. Although I am not terribly comfortable sitting in bed, or at the dining room table with the lap top. Basically I am never comfortable. Doesn't this make you want to run out and get pregnant! Thankfully this is a temporary condition. That is what I keep reminding myself anyhow!

We had some crappy news last week that has caused us to quickly change our plans. Kevin was laid off from his job. He was doing corporate sales for Rogers and if you have been reading the news, they laid off about 900 people last week. If I wasn't going on mat leave things would have been fine. But with the prospect of me going on mat leave pay, and him possibly having no pay, we quickly pulled our boys from daycare. Thankfully our day care was totally understanding and returned our December payments to us. That will make a huge difference in our budgeting. I am sure he will find a job quickly. And it may turn out to be a bit of a blessing. Although not having a job sucks, having a hubby home when a new baby comes ROCKS. He had very little holiday time left in his last job and would have only been able to take 3 days off after the baby was born. If I have this baby early, we could conceivably have weeks together. I will enjoy that immensely. Have to think of the positives right!