Love, bubs and life on our little farm

Last pregnancy I did the same thing - here. We tend to focus on the sweet newborn and forget about ourselves, so I like to take a moment to reflect on how I am going.

My stitches are feeling mostly healed - just a little ouchy, in particular when sitting at certain angles. I am happy to say that with religious stomach exercising, I have brought my abdominal seperation from over 4 fingers wide to back to less than 1 finger wide. I wish I could say the same about the stretch marks around my poor saggy belly button - its all a little wrinkly and not pretty but I know it will take time.



My bump is just a little stubborn one now - its going down much slower now, I think until I can start some serious pliates and horseriding I will have to accept that it will stay sticking out a little. But I got my flat tummy back last time so I plan to do it again!

I still feel a little weak in the pelvis and get a bit of a bruised feeling if I am walking alot and carrying things. Ditto to a terrible lower back ache. But my reading tells me this is to be expected as the pelvis is still so soft. I am avoiding lifting the 15kgs of Elka as much as I can but am trying to do little lifts close to the ground to start getting my back and core muscles used to it as Jase will be going back to work soon and I need to be strengthened.

Bronte is a good bub at nights - feeds and goes back to sleep and often will do a 6-8 hour stretch so I am feeling not too tired. Although when work rings or emails me I do find that my mind is feeling pretty muddled still - damn baby brain!

I can get a little frustrated and overwhelmed with the workload of a new bub and a cheeky toddler but the feeling passes pretty quickly. Overall I am feeling pretty happy and cheery - I do think that the noise and inconvienence of the house extensions might get to me some days though. But I just have to remind myself that "this too shall pass" and that I need to soak up having my last newborn in the house.