fin contemplates the meaning of life....

or maybe just thinks about why plastic tastes so good!

wedding nanas and grandads!

mixed week- but a great wedding!

fin has had a STINKER of a cold this week, which i got too, this has been so draining, mainly becasue he couldnt feed and then eventually forgot how to feed and had to be retrained into it, really not at all fun. but on the other hand last sunday we went to davids sisters wedding and it was fab, great dress, great food, nice people all really really romantic and pretty, was really quite an event, so congrats EMMA AND PHIL! wooohoo!

swimming fin!

yesterday david and i took fin for his first swim, and he LOVED IT! and i have to say, that he did just look so so so so so cute in his little wetsuit and rubber ring, i am totally turning into one of those parents who coo at every little thig he does. for example, i get really excited when he fits in the next size up clothes, and when he he started to make goooo and maaaa noises rather than just grunting! he is so great!

congratulations to emma

at last at 3 weeks over due had baby ava! well done girl!

fin and i have been very brave today, we went out in the car to see some nct friends, then went to a different town shopping and got daddy lunch for tomorrow and a wetsuit for fin for when i take him swimming. how clever are we being all mobile and all!

this is my dad with the fin bean, my dad isnt well at the mo, so get better soon!

smiles

just to prove he does them!

poor fin!

has has had a viral infection, and has not been at all happy. add to this the sub-tropical heat, and a visit to M and S where some woman called me a bad mother (apparently, him crying qualifies me for this post) and i think you can say this week has been a bit more difficult.

BUT davids car is finally fixed, so mummy and finbean are mobile again! watch out world, now if i can only work out how to get the damn car seat in...........

this is what we do at home all day!

not a lot! fin is grumpy as it is so hot, and i am trying to keep him from getting grumpy.

i did have a dysney embargo, but fin LOVES his play nest! Thank you uncle adam and aunty karen!

week 3

Fin is a total guzzler and is now 10lbs 10!! He is the kind of baby that could eat some of the ickly babies! (not that i condone eating of babies in any way) He is coming on now, and I see little new things that he can do every day, he is starting to look straight up when you put him on his back and is reaching out for lurid or jangely toys. (he oikes the ones that make the most annoying noise!)

So things are good, my mum was here last week and davids mama stayed monday to wednesday, so now i am going to be a proper growned-up and try on my own! am finding it slightly daunting, but i think now i have the basic skills, just need to work out how to try and do them as well as sort the house and and remember to wash my hair!

thank you to everyone who has sent us well wishes (or even pressies) they are all much appreciated, especially the clothes that are in bigger sizes, as he seems to want to grow out of things before he has even had the chancde to wear them! i am now not as chunky as i was, but the tummy area is NOT NICE. Q: how do people in magazines get so damn skinny after they have had babies? is it starvation or plastic surgery? These are not an option, (love cheese too much!) but if it is somthing elas i might have a go......

on another note, everyone send wishes to emma who is overdue and getting grumpy, xxxx

apologies for lask of typing

have been rushed off my feet by a small bald dictator! he has been feeding every hour as it is so hot, but last night he slept for 5 (YES 5!) hours in a row! So i am feeling almost human, yay fin!!

other than that we have been trying to keep the house in an ok state, changing nappies and generally doing babyh things, as well as being brave and leaving the house to go shopping and for walks, m y mum is here this week and she has been great, i am feeling a bit more confident now, but it is just good to have someone who can help out.

learning curve

has been quite sharp. to think, i once imagined that i would get better sleep from uncomfortable pregnancy when the bean was here! HA! I was so silly. and poo in nappies changes colour from sort of black tar like goo to yellow mustary stuff.

hummm. also no one tells you how much you can love your baby. i never thought anyone would mean as much to me as dave, but now i have two boys i would do anything for!

Finley Bean Christopher

Our son was born on the 20th, at 3.18pm, he weighed 8lbs 6oz, and is totally perfect in every way.

The birth didnt go as planned, but after 4 days of pre-labour and 15 hours of normal labour he was delivered via c-section as an emmergency.

We are at home now getting used to being a little familly, everything is perfect- he was worth the wait!

contractions

so, on wendesday night i starting having little ickly niggely pains, that turned into period pains, and have been returing every 20-5 mins, or every 5 mins, or ever 7 mins or when ever they feel like it. the pain is bareable, and so i think that this last 24 hours+ is ju7st the build up to some mega pain.......... anyway, at least somthing is happening.

yes still here

saw the midwife today for my 41 (!!!!) week appointment. this is the one based in portsmouth, they kept us waiting for 45 minutes and then said that i may be "a bit stressed" give the woman a medal, godness knows all that medical training has come in handy for making that diognosis!!


anyway, today is going to be spent reading new scientist magazines lent to me by ben to try and strop my brain rotting, cleaning the kitching floor on my hands and knees (someone told me it started thier mums labour) and probably watching football of some type. woopdie doo. i can just about remember the days when i went to work at 7, then went to tescos and then to yoga, i am sure i used to be able to do thingsz without wincing or it being painful. i suppose that all this is the kind of thing you forgot once the baby is here, if i seem in danger of forgetting, can someone please remind me?!

still here

yes, still here sat around. apparently my mother in law (hi terry!) thinks i am going nuts sat at home, david pointed out to me that there was a fine line between my normal mental state and nuts before! cheeky git.

i just got an email from my friend nicky, she had the perfect birth! no pain relief and was just an all out star. i dont know if i have told you my theory on this, but here we go: i think births are like a-levels, only so many good ones to go around, so if all my friends have perfect births, then there wont be any left and i will have to have a c-section. i know this makes no sense in the universal pattern of things, but it is an idea quite firmly rooted in my head. odd. maybe i am going a little bit funny sat at home after all.

come on bean!!! 6 days overdue now!

not my waters breaking

last night at 1am i thought my waters had broken.... there was watery stuff coming from me (uegh, no nicer way of saying that!) and so we rang the hospital who said to go in.... 6 hours later they decided it may have been either the hind waters or somthing else that you dont want to know about...

anyway, i got all excited and now i am back to sitting around. mind, i guess this means that things may be about to happen (?) please!!

congratulations to lou!

yes, another one has dropped..... lou had lilly grace, 8lbs 10 (ish) on Saturday. dammit!!!

i am now totally sick of people ringing and texting to ask if the baby is here yet, and then i get all sorts of useless advice about eating curries, driving over pot holes and hav ing sex. trust me, i have tried all of this and nothing has worked! so today is the 4th day over due, and i suppose on the bright side, i only have a week to go until the induction date. but i really REALLY^ dont want to me induced, as this rather tends to lead toward having cesarian births, and i really dont want that, not at all. so, today i am going to my nct class coffee morning, and then my mum is coming round this afternoon to stop me going spare.

i have run out of thing to clean, so i think organising little distracting jollies out is nows the way to go, that and spending time sitting in the beans room meeping and wondering if he ever plans to get here, or if being pregnant for this long is just an act of univerfsal karma for soming i did wrong!

funny fact: the bean likes music ok, but he realy likes football noise. we have been watching the world cup and he goes nuts when the crown makes a big noise! you can tell he is daves son, the other thing he likes is it you hold this baby einstein flashing toy next to my tummy, he tries to turn to the flashy lights!

congratulations to nicky!

my friend from yoga who had a 7lb girl on the 8th, called emily grace.

ok, so im half congratulating and half so jelous i have actually cried a bit. i think the bean has decided to stay put as he knows what a horrible mother i will be! it seems weird that the whole giving birth thing is such a natural process, and that i seem to suck at it! i mean, there are things i can accept being bad at, like maths, crosswords, countdown, making cakes, going on trains, admiting im wrong... but i just assumed that i would be ok at this becuase EVERYONE is, or at least everyone else seems to be. it doesnt help that now i have had my best name and my due date stolen!