I believe my last line of my last post went something like... 'I promise you won't have to wait nine months for my next update...'
*cough*
So fourteen and a half months later...
I remember writing that last blog post like it was yesterday. Wednesday 23 November, a beautiful sunny morning - I was up early thanks to pregnancy insomnia and excitement because I knew I was being induced that night :) A deliciously exciting little secret shared only by my husband & best friend. Nobody else knew. Not even family. It was awesome :)
Thumper was induced due to small size plus my anxiety about my ob being away the following week. Damn obstetric conferences being held on people's due dates!
I'm not going to do a birth story right now - maybe later. Needless to say, on Friday 25 November 2011 at 12:51am, after 26 hours of labour and 30 mins of pushing, our precious baby GIRL - Alyssa Jade - entered the world. A pint-size package with a sweet little face and awesome lungs. At 5lb 13oz (2710g) and 48cm, she was tiny indeed - but healthy and beautiful and perfect.
We were in love!
And fourteen and a half months later, we are still in love! So, so, so incredibly in love with our precious little daughter! I look at her and can't believe she is ours. Can't believe we have been blessed and entrusted with something so perfect, so delightful, and so damn cute!
It has been a rough ride but we're doing alright. Lots of challenges - PND, breastfeeding woes (I did succeed but it was tough and I felt very unsupported by the people who should have stuck by me the most), and allergy problems making solids a nightmare - but I got through it :) And I'm so proud to be a mum :) I'm back at work now which kind of sucks, but I've got the childcare-work-home routine mostly sorted. I'm also running my own Creative Memories business.
Wow, a lot has happened in the last fourteen and a half months!
So everything is fine. Blissful. Busy. Perfect chaos, even at 2am. My heart-shaped box is full to bursting as I drink in my darling cheeky little girl and my amazing husband who travels this path with me every day. We are so lucky. So blessed!
So is it any wonder I forgot about my blog? :P
I'm not going to make any promises about when the next post will be! But there is so much I would love to share - so it might be sooner than you think <3 p="">
Then: 28 November 2011
Now: 9 February 2013
