I thought i should actually come on here & do another post (finally) & announce to the world (5 months late) that we had another bub - a girl! Violette Belle was born on the 2nd of March 2012 after a beautiful, completely natural, water birth.
She is just gorgeous & we love her to bits!!! here are some pics:
& one of me while i was still pregnant...just cause i love the pic:
Birth Story
Well this one is pretty short! i had my first contraction at 2am which woke me up. So i sat in bed watching fringe on dvd for a couple of hours because i couldnt sleep (even though the contractions weren't painful). Then i got up & got Jet's stuff ready for school & when the boys woke up at about 6am mum came up to watch them & we went into the hospital (just to get some peace & quiet really). My "active labour" started at about 8:30 i guess, thats when things started to get a bit intense. We had a doula at our birth - the wonderful Laura, (who was fantastic!) she showed up at about 9 i think. We only just made it into the birthing suite with the bath (there was another woman in it who had already given birth but they had to move her & clean the room & they didnt realise my labour would progress so quickly). I had started feeling like it was almost time to push before we got in there, i got in the bath while the water was still running, but once i was in there my labour slowed a little which was good. i think about 20 minutes later (@ 10:03am) Violette was born into the water, posterior (like her brother Bae). & we were back home with her snuggled up in her hammock at about 4pm i think :)
It was the most concious that i have been during labour so far, i was really aware of everything that was going on and of my body. We didnt know we were having a girl third time round, i didnt want to find out, but i think at some stage towards the end i just knew, we didnt even check her sex for a few minutes after she came out but part of me just knew she as a girl, which is surprising because i was sure i would end up with 3 boys!
Anyway, now she is 5 months old & is the sweetest little baby. She is so much smaller than the boys...& she sleeps!!!!! which is wonderful! She has her moments but most of the time she is so smiley & giggly & she loves her big brothers (& they love her too!) :)
