bye bye new born

well my girl is 5weeks4days!!!
and is grown ot of her newborn clothes weighing in at 11pound8 today!!!
WOOHOO. very proud mumma -:)
She is following her musical mobile with her eyes and smiling and gooin and gaaing at it, it bought tears to my eyes this morning!! so obviously every milestone from here on in is going to be accompanied with tears from myself so the poor child is going to find me super embarrassing for the rest of her life !!

SHe has had a few bad afternoons (they call arsenic hour or witching hour)where she screams blue murder for a hour on and off and you cant do anything to console the poor wee button it breaks my heart. But its normal so we just grin and bare it.

SHe is still sleeping 9pm-3 or 4am so thats fine by us at the mo actually its awesome i think she enjoys nighttime sleeps with mummy and daddy in the room with her ha ha.

well someone just woke up !!! go figure this happened last time ....

okay okay

its been AGES!!! but to be honest blogging wasnt high on my priority list he he
Dusty is 4.5 weeks now and weighed in at 4 week check a bonny 10pd12oz so is packing the pies on nicely.

Im recovering well now after a bout of infection , week long antbiotics to fix it which upset dustys tummy. and now coming right now. Oh and to be super gross i had my first ingrown hair in my scar (gross) i know and had a friend from antenatel group here telling me of horror storys with drains and 30cm long cuts from ingrown hairs so i promptly got the needle out an did a doctor job on my self ha ha i know im sick but seriously im honest.


Dusty has started smiling and gooing and gaaing its so cute, we are so in love with her its wicked.

Got a kiddly that has just woken up (murphys law) so will try to post again soon :)

Baby Blues

THey are real!!! and they suck!!
poor angus had to deal with it for the first week i just dont know why but i couldnt stop crying, im now on my 2nd day without crying so fingers crossed it was just a quick phase i went through.

Its a bloody scary job being a mum all of a sudden it just hit me like a freight train and i felt like a possum caught in the headlights of a truck!!
THe great thing is that you do get closer to your partner in the grand scheme of things i dont know what i would do with out my husband hes my rock and my heart. SOme of the baby books you read say that you could end up further apart then closer together (dont know where they get that from?)

Dusty is doing great!! Feeds sleeps poos (heaps) and thats about it!!!

We have been out of the house since she was a week old she is 10 days now.
Visiting people and just cruising.
COuldnt be bothered being couped up at home having constant strings of people coming to visit so just took off and had a nice day out.

Dusty put on 400gms in her first week so weighed 9pd4oz at 7 days old so be interesting to see how much more she chunks on in her second week.

SHes here

Well she has finally made her appearence,
Dusty Vienna May Pullen,
Born 10th April 2009,
weighing 8pound 6ounzes.
After 2 days of prelabour pains we headed to hospital to get induced at 7.30am on thursday 9th APril ,
after walking the hospital steps for hours we finally had some contractions kick in from 11am thru to 3pm when they broke my waters. Things kicked up a notch and we thought dusty would be with us by midnight, but after a jab of pehidine, my body decided it would stop altogether. so we waited midnght came and went and obstetricians decided we would try MORE drugs to bring on labour again and threw in a epidural for fun as well. So we had to wait 3 hours for the anaesthesitist to turn up so by 8.30am a very worn out Tanya finally gets her epidural more drugs to kick in contractions and we are told to wait 2 hours to see if dusty would like to think abou making a appearence. SO by 10.30am the specialists reviewed us (i was over it by then) and Dusty was determined too big and no progressing well enough so a emergency c section was decided on. My body started having convulsions by then from all the drugs an was wheeled in to theatre with a very worried husband with me, docs tell me to let them no if i feel anything when they pull her out ?? anyway they pulled an tugged (ew) and Dusty came out crying it was a pretty amazing feeling. :) Until i felt my insides being ripped out and screamed so was knocked out quick smartly under general and awoke in recovery room with a happy elated husband holding our baby girl and everyone asking me how i felt???? i was pretty wasted to be honest so just cried i think.

SHe is feeding gloriously and came out knowing how to breast feed lucky me :)
We are loving all bein at home now after a 3 day stay in hospital ad to get out of there it was doing our heads in. Poor andrew did some 7am to midnight stints in with me to calm me down as i had a pretty rough time. ANd wasnt too happy or healthy for a couple of days.

just in case

39week 4 day tummy


40week 4 day tummy

here is the 40 week 4 day tummy and the 39week4 day photo so one week difference there. Not sure if i have dropped i think she is so big she aint going to drop shes just filling in more room everyday she gets pudgier and pudgier ha ha

someone said they think im having a ten pounder today ha ha gee thanks

40weeks4days

yes i am still here!!! in one piece!!!
our litle angel hasnt made her debut yet so looks like she will be getting evacuated on Tuesday if all goes well.
After trying al the things people (you know the ones who think they are doctors) tell you to do to bring on your babies. I have come to my own conclusion babies come wen babies are ready and if you manage to be swallowing litres of castor oil or having hot curry or sex when they do come it is just lucky timing ha ha.
So madam will no doubt decide if she wants out in the next 36 hours or will get forced out.
Still getting heaps of movememtns and my braxton hicks are still uncomfortable and feel al bit like period pains, but from what i can tell its all just a build up to the big event whether it be days or weeks away (with some people)
Im feeling pretty sweet still no sleep but you get that, so just make the best of the situation and sleep when i can even if it is in 1.5 to 2 hour lots.
Angus has calmed down and got hold of himself and is ready for his little girl to come and seems quite calm now (thank god!!) i couldnt think of anything worse than having to calm my own husband down while giving birth ha ha.
its funny ive been thinking to myself alot, make the most of not having a sore foofee with stitches in it or a inside out bumbum or bleeding nipples (god i hope my dad isnt reading this) cause i am sure that is going to be a very trying time ha ha but just looking at my girl shoudl dissipate some of the pain.
hey since i have had a few invasive procedures in my time ie. needles going thru my uterus wall to pull out my egss to make this little angel of mine or having endometriosis burned off, or having the most painful period pains for days on end, maybe labour might not be so bad??? ha ha i wil let you know for sure.
oh on another nice TMI (to much information)note Im off for my 4th YES 4th Stretch n sweep tomoro just to give my litle munchkin one more shot of coming on her own. and then lunch with a few other Overdue mummys to be for a debrief without interruptions before these kids come ha ha.

stay tuned.....

39weeks6 days!!

EEEEEEEKKKK!!!!! due date tomorro WOOHOO happy due date to us happy due date to us!!!!
THis is pretty FREAKIN exciting huh?
Within one week we will be parents .
woke up at 4am this morning with a stabing pain in my side and thought WICKED THIS IS IT!!! but after 2 hours and nothing i was thinking mmmm little bit premature thinking that was it doris ha ha, but anyhoo thats another day for me to sort my shite out or do absolutely nothing and catch up on tv and sleep since im waking evey 1.5 hours now not 2 hours. went for a swim at the gym and that has eased the aching hips back and pelvis for a bit.
whats the chances i will actually get more sleep when kiddles is out cause im seriously not really getting any as it is so maybe my super clever child is actually training me for surviving on no sleep already?? I have been saying to angus that we do have a super clever kidlet growing inside me ha ha. which gives me moments of super cleverness (when im not dropping glasses and plates and walking into stuff).

oh and im due tomorro and people say oh your baby runs out of room towards the end blah blah blah well this kiddles still manages to move around and beat the living shite out of me constantly and as for counting those 10 movements a day? i get 10 movements every 15 minutes ha ha well my midife says a moving baby is a happy baby so im running with that one.

ON the stretch and sweep front , it was fine my cervix is back a bit and comes forward as you get closer to going into labour so getting another on weds and friday and next monday so we will see, but NO it didnt hurt and NO im not in labour yet. so stay tuned my little precious followers and no doubt i wil post a blog when i start to go into labour or will send a bulk text as im leaning over the toilet puking or sitting on the toilet with the runs or lying in the back seat of the car screaming at andrew to get to the hospital quicker.

oh and the stretch marks i didnt have a couple of days ago have just started to make a appeareance so looks like this baby needs to be evacuated soon for my own vain needs. ha ha just kidding.

oh and what is it with feeling the need to do or get something and you are not happy until its done?
today it is , i really want a nice white beautiful valance to go on the bottom of my bed and crisp white egyptian sheets and duvet etc so my bed is like a hotel bed???

the last thing was a babys woollen cot blanket (which i got pheuuww)
i will let ya know how i go on the hotel bed front but dont think its going to happen somehow.

the baby has the hiccups so i gotta go and try get comfortable.