Well I didn't make it to an April post for a very good reason - Leif decided to make his appearance! I had a long, long, long early labor (a week and a half of steadily-increasing contractions and two false alarm trips to the hospital). Ended up in the hospital for the real thing on his due date, April 17. Then another 12 hours of hard labor overnight in the hospital and progressed still only to 5cm. The doctor broke my water at 7am, by 7:55am I was pushing. Whoa! Two hours of pushing later and out came my VBAC baby Leif, 8lbs 3oz, full head of dark hair. April 18, 2014 at 10am on the dot. Yay! I've been slowly recovering and feeling pretty good. Leif and I have gotten pretty much through mastitis that started in earnest a week ago. And this morning I took a twenty minute walk. And all three kids (and daddy) are still sleeping. We have been blessed with a wonderful sleeper in Leif. Knock on wood it continues because just keeping up with three is tiring :-) Wish me luck in my first week alone with the three of them this week. May have to call in reinforcements, but I did make a large art supply purchase yesterday and the weather is looking much better for outside play so I might just survive :-)
Pictures!
Relaxing after the girls go to sleep
A baby, a salad, what more do you need?
Signe loves being a big sister
Soooo big/small
Art project with our buddy Diana who has been helping me out occasionally with this craziness
I can finally snuggle and read with the girls again after my belly and general uncomfortableness prevented me for months!
Freya didn't want to snuggle Leif but she did want a picture of her flapping
Rare sunny day!
First bath at home. Sleeping. Typical sweet Leif :-)
When he was still in his basket for daytime naps/safe deposit area. He outgrew it pretty quick and we were lucky enough to be able to borrow the bassinet you see in other pictures
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