Little pudding!

Little Emmy is definitely a food lover like her dad. She whimpers pitifully if she's hungry and guzzles down bottles like she might not be fed again. She is piling on the weight despite being quick sicky this week and is now 9pm. She is finally fitting in newborn clothes s is no longer a 'tiny baby' yay!
Mia is a doting sister who is attempting to do everythig for Emilia, much to emilias dislike. She is constantly being kissed, poked, prodded, hugged, squished and cuddled. She si very good at the feeds and winding though, having practised on her other sister.
Emilia is a very good sleeper at the moment and wakes up only for food, then usually goes straight back to sleep. This isn't the case lately though as she is a very noisy sleeper. She grunts, groans, coughs and clears her throat all night. Luckily for Huw, it doesn't disturb him, I am not so lucky though.

Emilia Grace Morgan

Sorry it's taken a while but have been otherwise occupied with Emilia. The sweep didn't work so went into hospital to be induced. After the first dose of prostin I was told that I couldn't have the second as there were no delivery suites available, and fearing that I would have to deliver the baby on ward 10, they put off giving me the second dose until the next morning. My waters broke at 10:15 pm but the hospital sent Huw home, tellingnhim that they would phone him with plenty of notice if anything happened, this worried me a little as no one actually oopped their head round the curtain for 8 hours.
Anyway, was given my second dose the next morning , Huw had breakfast in the hospital in case anything happened quickly and before 11am I was taken to the delivery suite. Thankful for gas and air as until then all I'd had was two paracetamol. Huw phoned his mum but the midwives thought it would progress slowly. In actual fact it went quite quickly and after protesting that the baby was on her way, the midwives checked to find that I was 8 cms dilated. Not long after and in quite a rush chris was called in and emilia was born on the 8th march, weighing 6pm 13oz. After much waiting around on the ward, emilia and I were discharged just after 11pm and Huw picked us up and took us home.

meltdown

after night 8 of no sleeping due to the pains that seem to disappear in the day, i was not in the best frame of mind yesterday and cried when Huw had to go to work (tired and emotional??). Huw took the afternoon off to come and see the consultant with me that afternoon. As soon as the midwife told me i looked tired and asked if i was ok, i started crying, then had a fantastic meltdown for the rest of the afternoon even crying in the waiting room - embarassing! by the time i got to see the consultant i was a little bit of an emotional wreck. He was lovely as always and scanned the baby straight away. He had a registrar training with him, who was also pregnant, bet she looked at me and thought 'shit, this is what ive got to look forward to!!!'
once scanned he asked me a few questions such as when exactly was Mia born, forceps? what did she weigh? then he said that he was going to 'start me off' as the waters were borderline?? and the baby wasnt moving as much as she'd used to - which to be honest, at this stage, i thought was normal.
the registrar gave me a sweep. hhmmmm, shop is definitely shut after this baby is all i will say.
had a better night sleep and dosed myself up on paracetamol, i only  really woke up when they had worn off and took some more as my back feels like the back of an 80year old!
anyway, i'm keeping my fingers crossed for that to work, but if not im booked in to be induced tomorrow morning, its a week early but i couldnt be more grateful, im done with pregnancy. so keeping my fingers crossed for today as being home for as long as possible is definitely my preferred option to being induced for 24 hours. hospitals are full of sick people!!

1week to go!!!!!

Well boo has kept me up all week. Very night she causes a lot of pain to the point where we think she's on her way, then she changes her mind!! Typical woman! By Thursday the pains were every 6 minutes apart so I woke Huw up as I thought this MUST be it!! Huw run me a bath to help cope with the pain...then it stopped!!! Ggrrrrrrrr
I have been taken out walking with chris and Ian, eaten curries, drank raspberry leaf tea and tried everything else that is recommended (except caster oil, can't face that), but nothing seems to be working! Every night were convinced she's on her way, I guess we just have to wait. Unfortunately, I've stopped swimming, yoga and generally going anywhere on my own as I've lost confidence and am afraid I'll be on my own when something happens. I've also noticed that I'm now struggling to do the simplest of things. Yesterday, mum and I walked into town, which is about 5 mins away, had a look around the shops and had lunch. I didn't have the energy to walk home, so dad came down with his car.
Today, we were meant to go to Roath park with Ian and chris and Mia on her bike, but just as we were going to leave the skies opened. Instead, we decided to pop to town as gizmo the hamster needed food, and we wanted to get an outfit for the baby. I managed ti walk around a couple of shops before feeling really dizzy and had to come home. Think I'm destined to be confined to bed until boo arrives.
Maybe tonight.....

                                                                 fully cooked!!!!

2weeks to go, two nights of pain...no baby!

Well we had a lovely weekend. The weather was warm and sunn so we took Mia to Roath park on Saturday to ride her bike and have an ice cream. Mia is so much bettter every time she get on the bike and really enjoyed herself. We walked around the lake at a rather brisk pace so that we could keep up with her, then took her down to play in the park. Huw then went down his parents to watch the match whilst Mia and I came home to wait for her dad to pick her up.
Sunday involved another trip to ikea to purchase some shelves for Mia's playroom and out for lunch. We had a lovely lunch in the oyster catcher, then went home to rest. That evening my lower back started aching, so Mia let me have her hot water bottle and Huw sent me to bed. I awoke a couple of hours later with the first of many pains in my stomach. The pains were much more intense that the braxton hicks I'd been experiencing and kept me up most of the night. However, the next morning, apart from back ache, the stomach pains had gone.
I phoned the midwife under Huw's instruction just to find out if it was normal. The midwife was very unconcerned and told me to go to bed, didn't ask how many children I had, previous labours or complications. She did say that it was probable the pains would return in the night.
I went to bed disappointing as I was still having backache, but no stomach pains all day. Then, true to form, I was awoken at 1am with an intense pain in my stomach. This went on until 4am. They started at 20 min intervals, then 15 and then 10. Convinced I was in labour, and in a lot of pain I contemplated a bath, but didn't want to wake Huw and Mia who were blissfully sleeping through it. Then at 4 am I fell asleep!!!!! Grrrrrrr! Pains have gone. I still have backache but no more contractions. She is definitely an awkward little boo!!!! And is probably thinking feb29th would be an awesome day to be born. I am now beyond caring about the work date, if I'm being kept awake for the whole night again I would like a baby at the end of it please!

Brownies

Mia is no longer a Rainbow as she enrolled in Brownies. i did think i would have more of a problem getting her into this uniform, as lets face it, its brown and yellow, not most girls choice. also, they wear trousers, which she hates so i was expecting tears when we arrived at the shop. Luckily, brownies are ebbing slowly into the 21st century and therefore had leggings! result! one happyu child. Mia had learned her promise, which seemed a bit archaic, and the whole enrollment was a little weird, but all the girls did brilliantly. Huw took some photos, and bought raffle tickets, putting his name on them instead of Mias so when he won, he was the only man to have to choose a prize as everyone else had put the name of their little girls! Mia helped him choose a lovely sewing kit!!!

have tried to upload the video Huw took of her making her promise but it seems to be having problems.

Boo on the other hand has had a much less exciting day. she was very active when all the brownies and rainbows were singing and shouting which must have taken it out of her as she has been very quiet today. i was starting to get a little worried as i'd barely felt her move, but everytime i got anxious enough to think about calling the midwife, she'd give me alittle nudge to let me know she's still there. She's still much quieter than usual though and her movements are more subdues, but she does seem to have her dad's body clock so i will see how she is this evening as that's when she's at her livliest. im also a lot more confortable today, maybe she's moved position but i no longer feel short of breath, nor is she using my ribs as a bumrest which is a relief after a few months of this. Huw is under the impression that she will be out to spoil his weekend by deciding the time to arrive is mid-game tomorrow. I on the other hand, am more anxious that she will try to make an appearance february 29th, which is an awful day to have a birthday on. i can imagine all sorts of problems, especially computer orientated ones which probably wont accept the date. March 1st seems a much better option. but we willl have to wait and see.

not a lot planned for the weekend as Huw is now t-total in anticipation of boo's arrival, he knows he could have to drive to the hospital at the drop of a hat, so a drop of alcohol is out of the question for the forseeable future im afraid. have offered him one of my Beck's blues, but he looked less that impressed! Hes off to his parents to watch the match tomorrow, im staying in with Mia as her dad should pick her up in the middle of the game, have offered to drop her off before or after but im not really allowed to watch the match as every time i do, wales lose.
sunday we're probably taking another trip to Ikea so that we can finish off Mia's playroom, which we started last week. Mia decided on a colour scheme and we have been busily building furniture and redecoratingso that she has a room for her toys and to play in. we now need the shelves so back to ikea it is.

false alarm!!!

Saturday night was a little interesting as i wasnt feeling the best. Poor Mia hadnt been well, we took her to tesco to buy a dvd on the way to the park for her to ride her new bike. But mia asked to go straight home as she wasnt feeling well - a sign that she is really ill and not trying to get out of school. i'd not been feeling the best and had little niggles in the day. By the evening however they had got much more painful and more regular. we started to think that this may be it, so Huw decided it would be a good idea to fix the carseat in the car just in case. this sounds like an easy and not too time-consuming task, however, it proved too much for us! Huw toddled off to my parents to pick up the car seat and base. opening the boxes, Huw went out to the car, he had no problem fitting the base. all looked good. five minutes later he came back in with the base and the carseat.
'i cant get the carseat to fit! Are they the right ones?'
'um Huw, new born baby carseats are rear facing, youre trying to fit the carseat facing the wrong way'.
first dilemma resolved. hbuw turned the carseat around and it clicked straight into the base. Perfect!
'right, how do we get it back out?' here lay the big problem. we could not budge the carseat, we pressed all the buttons and levers we could see but could not shift the carseat. after faffing for about 20 mins, we started looking inline. We watched videos of how to eject the seat and even wrote on fb. Huw decided the carseat was faulty then panicked about not knowing anyone with a carseat we could borrow had i gone into labour that night.
Huw toddled off back to my parents to get the instructions. meanwhile i found the base instructions and started to read. a minute later, i had successfully unclipped the seat. when huw arrived back, looking slightly stressed, he was a little amazed that id done it, after demonstrating how it was done, we sat down and didnt bother fitting it in the car. at least we know how now though :)