Saxon's birth

This is the first photo of Saxon. It was taken just after he was born while I was still in the birth pool.

Saxon was born at home (planned homebirth). We had a midwife attend. He was born in the birth pool at 4.22am on the 6th March. The birth pool was in our kitchen, and Stu has set it up so there was candles along the kitchen benches. It was a lovely place to give birth. Active labour was 4 1/2 hours long, though I'd been having contraction on and off the day before.

Saxon was 6lb 14oz (3.13 kg) and 53.5cm long at birth.

Just before Saxon was born, I sent mum upstairs to see if Owen wanted to watch the baby being born, but he wanted to stay in bed!

This is the picture of the night before Saxon was born. I read the kids their bedtime stories, including a book called "Hello Baby" which is about a little boy telling the story of how his baby brother was born at home. Owen got a bit crabby when I had to hand the book over to Stu for a minute so that I could get through a contraction!

Our last family outing as a family of 4

These pics were taken just 3 days before I went into labour. We were heading off on a family outing to the Gallery of Modern Art to see the free kids section of the Andy Worhol exhibition.

It was the first day that Aaliya had her hair put into a pony tail - and she was pretty stoked with it because it was just like mummy's hair.

Reviving the blog

So I let it all get awat from me but now I'm back.....

It's been 10 months since my last post.....

Our family has changed a little. Stu is balder, Kara is looking older, Owen is 3 1/2, Aaliya will turn two in two months and we welcomed Saxon into our family (I'll give all the details in a separate post).

So, I'm back to continue documenting our family journey.