Welcome to the world Violette

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!) :)

Bae's Birth Story

Bae Theo Wolters

Birth Details
Born on the 18/5/09 at 11.10am Gosford Hospital.
Weight: 3.6 kilos/8.15 pounds
Length: 51cm
Head Circumference: 35.5cm

Why we chose his name
Bae – a Korean name meaning inspiration (Pronounced like Bay)
Theo – One of Rocky's (many many) uncles, who he stayed with in Holland when he was 19. He means a great deal to Rocky & shares Bae’s birthday so it seemed fitting to use his name as Bae’s middle name.

Birth Story
On Saturday the 16th I had a bit of a show at around 3pm, followed by some light contractions through the night (most of which I slept through). Once I got up in the morning they subsided & I only had a couple of very light contractions throughout the day. That didn’t stop Rocky from cleaning the whole house & running around with a huge smile on his face in anticipation of the big event.

I had another show Sunday afternoon & then more contractions Sunday night. They were a bit stronger, about 1 every hour or so but I still managed to get allot of sleep. I got up at about 6.30am on Monday & had a shower, the contractions quickly started to come quite regularly & grew more intense. I called our wonderful midwife (& family friend) Bernadette at around 7.20am, not really sure if I was in labour since the contractions felt different to the ones I experienced with Jet.

We left for the hospital at about 8.10am, luckily for me my contractions died down in the car, I think I only got 3 in the 30 minute trip! We arrived at the hospital at about 8:40am. I was a bit concerned that I wasn’t in labour because the contractions had subsided in the car (even though they started up again once it got out), but at about 9am Bernadette checked me out & said I was already 7cm dilated.

I spent the next hour or two going in between the shower & the bath, then settled into the bath & moved into the last phase of labour. I think I only had about 10 big contractions & then out he came (over about 15 or 20 mins). His head came out in one contraction & he was posterior so we could see his little face all scrunched up in the water, then he giggled himself around & with daddy’s help managed to wiggle his shoulders out with my next contraction & that was it – he was out! He cried straight away & fed within about 10 mins of the birth. Rocky was very excited that he got to deliver him & cut his umbilical cord.

I settled down onto the bed with our new little son while we decided on a name (after consulting his astrology chart!) & called the grandparents to congratulate them on the arrival of their second grandson! My mum was looking after Jet (who desperately wanted to come with us when we left) & as soon as soon as he heard we were on the phone he started pulling grandma towards the car. Mum bought him all the way to Gosford to come & meet his new little brother, only to have him fall asleep in the car from all the excitement, so she turned around & took him home again.

4 & 1/2 hours after the birth we were discharged & came home to all the grandparents & Jet who proceeded to point out that Bae had two eyes & ears & then settled down to hold him on the couch for the next 20 mins.

The birth was completely natural, no gas or other drugs used. I had no tearing, only a few tiny grazes which haven’t given me any trouble at all. Funnily enough the thing I’ve found most painful after the birth is my sternum, it made a popping or cracking sound at some point in the last stage of labour & now all the muscles in my chest feel very fatigued & sore!

Jets Arrival

Introducing Jet Philippe Wolters!!!
Name: Jet Philippe Wolters
Stats: Born on 15/12/06 at 05:50 am (gosford hospital)
Weighed: 3.8kg (8 pounds 6 ounces)
Height: 52.5cm tall (the average is 50cm)
Head Circumference: 37 cm (the average is 35cm)
Mel’s birth story (Written by Rocky, Mels a little sketchy on the details!!!):
Contractions started at about 7pm on Thursday the 14th they were 5 minutes apart and about 30 seconds long but just felt like period pain. Mel then sat down to dinner with her parents and mentioned it as general conversation and went right on eating.
Wendy (Mel’s mum) urged Mel to call the hospital around 10pm when she started to get contractions every 3-4 mins. We arrived at hospital at 11pm on the 14th (we left home mainly to ease Wendy's mind). The midwife checked Mel and she was 3-4 cm dilated.
The next memorable events were throwing up the spanish omelets Mel had for dinner, this occurred at 1205am, 1am and 2am. Mel was very active in her labor moving around the room, squatting, showering and using the bath. By 3am the contractions were quite intense so Mel asked the midwife to check how far along she was, 9cm well on the way. It was around that time that Mel opted for the gas to take the edge off it all. 40 minutes later the midwife broke Mel’s waters.
Mel moved to the bath and it became apparent that she was ready to push, with the help of her loving husband Rocky the labor progressed slowly but smoothly. It took around 2 hours to get his whole body out this allowed Mel's body to adjust to his size. This meant no stitches were needed there were no tears only two small grazes.
Little baby Jet was born in the water, lifted onto his mummy's chest and found his way to her breast and attached. Together our little family lay in the water for 45 minutes, Rocky speechless and crying, Mel sore but very happy (and slightly high) and baby Jet screaming his lungs out.
We left hospital on the16/12/06 around 230pm our family of 2 is now a family of 3!