Someone is enjoying the sunshine...

Emmy is making the most of the sunny weather.

Hope the weather is nice where you are today.

Hat

Here is the hat that I mentioned I was knitting in my last post. I have found knitting the perfect activity, as I'm not allowed to do anything until I've recovered. I am finding it especially frustrating at how limited I have to be. No lifting, except for the baby, and that is only if the baby is at a certain height. I cannot bend down to pick her up. No cooking. No washing. No ironing. No going out, and especially no gardening....despite the glorious gardening weather we have this week. So it's down to the husband this week to look after us all, and I should make the most of some quite time to care for baby and rest, whilst she rest, whether this is sleeping myself or indeed knitting.

The pattern is from Roses and Posies by Patons and the hat is Bee. It suggests to enbroider some flowers on it, but this will be a job for another day. I will try and get a picture of Rebekah wearing her new hat, when she's next awake.

Now I must finish Oliver's red jumper.

New arrival

It's hard to think that just a week ago I was nervously anticipating the birth of my baby daughter. Rebekah came into this world at 12.53pm on Wednesday 15th April. Amazing that the 3rd stage of labour was all of 2 minutes. It was 13 hours for Oliver, and when you count the 1st and 2nd stages, it accounted for a few days.

Anyway back to Rebekah. Here she is....looking so very perfect. And very much smaller than we expected, at only 8lb 6oz (3.8kg). So she is now making use of newborn clothes that only reached Oliver's tummy button, which shows how much bigger he must have been.

We've been home since Saturday, Rebekah is such an easy, sweet baby, and I'm recovering very well from the surgery. An elective c-section has certainly been a very positive birth experience for me. And I am glad I took some music for theatre, to take my mind off the spinal (the thing I was most worried about). Thank you Take That.

And this afternoon between feeds, I'm making use of some wool Mum passed my way, to make a hat for Rebekah, as it's still a little on the cool side here.

Thanks for all your lovely comments directly or via my Mum. I'll be back again soon.

x

Only one day to go...

I started with this post just before Easter, when I was still taking in the fact of knowing up front the day my little one will arrive. I still find this very strange to comprehend. But why should I be as even though when you're waiting for labour to happen naturally you still seem to expect babies to arrive on their due dates...which they very rarely do. Very strange indeed. I know it shouldn't be as elective c-sections these days are very very common. At least now I'm getting used to the fact I'm in for an Op in the morning, as up until now I've been pretty scared.

I have to say that the last couple of weeks have been quite emotional. I had forgotten what it was like. But then every pregnancy is different. When I was carrying Oliver, I was out and about so much more. I even went into London to watch tennis at Wimbledon only a week before my due date...whereas this time round I can't even manage a walk to my local shops. Last time I cried a lot once I went past my due date...this time the crying started at 38 weeks.

But then I guess every pregnancy has to be different, because every child is different. And now I only have a few more hours to wait. And whilst I'm preparing for what lies ahead...I am so looking forward to no more indigestion, and being able to sleep on my back again. Not to mention a little baby sister for Oliver, the thought of which brings a little tear to my eye.

I will hopefully be on line again soon, and hopefully with a picture too.