This new blog definitely confirms exactly my first sentence from my first blog entry; I'm not a blogger! But a special someone has enticed me to blog and these memories will be all for him :) We love you lots, Matt Matt!
Since our wonderful Europe trip - part 2 December 2009 - we now have expanded our family. Our beautiful boy was conceived in Europe (we think it might have been from our stop in London but who knows?!?!). Matthew was born on September 6, 2010. He was adamant on his early arrival (9 days early). My water broke at 11:30pm on September 5. As James had just hit the sack, I woke him up with all the commotion (plus I needed help to get on the toilet!) Then we sanitized (of course!), repacked our overnight hospital bag, planned where we were going to have our last breakfast before the little guy came, took a shower...By 3:00am we were at the hospital! After reading many books, talking to other expert parents, and from our birth trainer, we were expecting about a good 16 hours before we got to meet Matthew. But boy, was he determined to meet us as soon as possible! By the time we were admitted to Emergency, I was 4 centimetres dialated. By the time I got wheel chaired up to our brand new, private Cedar room (equipped with its own toilet and bathtub!) at Women's, I was 9 cms! I was already pushing naturally when I demanded to be given the drugs! I wasn't planning on being a hero! The doctors were quite hesitant to drug me up but they finally gave in. Matthew was born by 6:30am. He would have came earlier, but sorry Matthew, mama needed the drugs!!!
We stayed at the hospital for one night and was quite determined to "get back to reality" so we asked to be checked out. Luckily James was able to get a month off so to spend Matthew's first 30 days together. And luckily for James, he actually slept way more during that first month than ever! Arghhh!!!
