Nesting

Well my midwives appointment went well on Tuesday, bub has turned and is Verrrrry low! So my midwife now thinks that I may go into labor early! So now I have started 'nesting'. For anyone who has had a baby, they will be very well aware what nesting is. The period a few weeks before you have your baby where you have the over powering urge to clean EVERYTHING! I remember being 9 months pregnant with Madison and scrubbing the grout between the kitchen floor tiles with a toothbrush! My girlfriend walked in and was like "Keysha what the Hell are you doing!?"
So so far I have re-arranged our bedroom to accommodate for my Boori Country cradle next to my side of the bed! I have almost finished setting up the final touches in the babies room, all I need is a floor mat and a cute lamp and it will be done! Today I went through every toy tub in the house and sorted and sifted through the tonnes of toys the girls have accumulated! I re-organized the girls wardrobe, books, clothes, individual toy tubs, (puzzle tub, pony tub, blocks tub etc) and by the end of the afternoon, I was exhausted! So tomorrows task is the pantry, and maybeeeee the linen press. I will have to see how brave I feel!

I have also been doing the last of  the organising for the baby. This is my favourite time when you make up the cot, wash and fold all the teeny tiny clothes and put in my Beautiful new chest of drawers that we bought for the baby! The cradle is made and ready, with soft and snuggly blankets ready to keep her snug:) And yesterday I did the last on the packing for mine and the babies bags for hospital!

It is a very exciting time, but also a very nervous and anxious wait! The thing I loved about having my first baby, was that I had nooooo idea what child birth would feel like! Everyone says "well atleast you know what to expect with your second!" Ah, I would rather be blissfully unaware thankyou very much! I have to say though, Madison's birth was a lot quicker and easier than Chloe's. They say each consecutive birth gets easier. Lets hope that goes for the next one! My girlfriends who don't have kids have asked me, "So whats it really like? What do contractions feel like? Does it hurt actually giving birth?" And all I say is that everyone has very different thresholds to pain and every ones body is different, therefore will labor differently. And yes it does hurt, more than I can ever tell you, but the reward you get at the finish, isn't something that you could ever put a price on. You may be in excruciating pain and screaming your lungs out for 24 hours straight! But you will have your baby forever. It is more than worth it!
So instead of thinking about the pain of the birth, I am thinking of the end result and the reason we do it in the first place. To be able to hold, and nurture and kiss and snuggle and watch grow and blossom, this tiny little being that you and the one you love have created together. That is the most beautiful thing in the world to me, and something so many take for granted.

So now we wait. 3 and a half more weeks until my due date, but my guestimate is that I will have her between the 24th and the 30th. We will soon see how accurate I was!:)

To finish, just a few sneak peaks at the nursery. I have chosen a pink and green 'gardeny' theme this time, and love the way it looks! Enjoy!:)

I'm back!

So it has been a while since I did my last blog entry! It seems every time i sit down to write something, the girls start fighting, the washing machine finishes, or something equally mundane pops up and I have to abort the task at hand!
So I am 36 weeks prego 2moro, and very excited to soon meet our baby girl! I have a midwives app tomorrow afternoon, and my midwife is going to see if the little munchkin is still breech, (which she is, trust me!) and if so, is going to schedule me an app with the doctor for him to try and ‘turn’ her. Now I was a little unsure about the sound of this, so started asking all my girlfriends if they had any experience with this. Well...big mistake! All I have heard is “it is the worse pain I have ever felt!” And this coming from ladies who themselves have had natural births and know what real pain is! Regardless, I will do whatever it takes to have the safest birth for my baby, so fingers crossed she cooperates and turns all by herself!
It has been super hot here, so I have been struggling with the heat a bit. I’m just soooo tiiiirrreeddd! I just sit on the couch looking at all the house work and think, “sweet baby Jesus.” And then I start saying things like “Chloe, if you pick up all the toys in the lounge room, I’ll give u a lollypop!” Sooo bad, I know. But anything on the floor is in the too hard basket. If I drop something, it’s like it’s in slow motion with me going “Noooooooo!” It is just so hard to bend all the way down to pick anything up. So when I see a loungeroom scattered with little girl’s toys, I just want to curl into a foetal position and rock!
It’s not all bad. This will definitely (most probablyJ) be our last baby, so every little kick, hiccup or roll is special! People keep saying to me, “oh you must be dying for it to be over!” Well, not when you know you will probably never go through this experience again! And what is it with people telling you whatever is on their mind about your pregnancy or family? I had a customer at work say to me “So do you know what you are having?” And I said, “Yes, our third little girl!” And they turned around and said “Oh you poor things, I feel sorry for u.” Me thinking he was joking started laughing, and he just stood there looking at me as if to say, ‘No, I’m serious!’ Needless to say I calmly turned around, walked away and insisted on my work mate dealing with him thereafter. How dare he say something like that? So what if we don’t get the boy I know Bill would love, but we have 3 healthy, beautiful little girls, (well, nearly!) who we both adore and treasure, and would not give up for the world! Some people should just keep their opinions to themselves!
On that note, now I have got my venting done!
I got to do my favourite thing in the world the other day. Bill was at home so said “Why don’t you go into town and get yourself a book?” Well, I think I had my bag and keys and was halfway out the door before he could finish the sentence! I could browse around a book shop alllll day! The smell of the brand new books, the feel of the fresh, uncreased covers. There is just something about a bookshop that makes me so calm, I just forget about everything else and get lost in the stories and re-encounters on the pages. I ended up straying from the novels and actually got a book called ‘Raising Girls’ instead! Which is turning out to be a very interesting read which I’m sure will come in very handy in the coming years!
Anyhoo, I will be back soon to keep my posts up, well at least until the baby comes! Here are some Belly Pics with my beautiful Chloe:) She loves her little sister so much already, kissing and cuddling my belly all the time! Is too cute! Chow for now!:)