So, Leah's journey into this world wasn't as difficult as I thought it was going to be. I was in early labour for 18 hours. It started 13hoo on November 18th, and by 6am the next morning I decided it was time to go to the hospital. My contractions never really got closer together or started a nice pattern... they were very sporadic and so we even stopped off at Ihop for pancakes and bacon (which you aren't suppose to do)!!! I was admitted at 11hoo Friday the 19th November at Citizens Medical Center. I remember being super excited and super scared... not sure I was actually ready to meet my little girl after all that waiting!
I has my water broken and started some patocin! I started to push around 17hoo, and after 30mins they decided to vacuum my baba out as she was kinda stuck - can you say Painful? ARGH... they had turned my epidural off so I could feel everything on my rhs!!! Anyways... the next contraction came and literally out popped Leah! To my utter shock and to everyone elses this child was 9.6 pounds!!! Thats 4.3 kgs! I remember looking at her in the Doctors arms... this giant, purple squishy thing... and not quite grasping the reality of the whole situation. This was in fact my baby, the child I had grown and nurtured for the last 9 months of my life.. this was my creation... a part of me, my mother and her mother:) This was my Leah... I had waited my whole life for that moment... I was breathless.
I will never forget the feeling I felt when holding her for the first time and having her curl her little fingers around my finger. I was utterly petrified leaving the hospital!!! Taking my precious baby out into the world and back home to the farm. Life for the first few weeks was hectic.. the sleepless nights (max 3 hours), the excessive crying, the constant attention she needed... boy, was I unprepared for parenthood. It doesn't matter how much they try to prepare you, or how many books you read... until you have lived it... you'll never fully understand or be ready! My Uncle Ray came down for a week and was a huge help and support. Then my sister Rachel came over for 2 weeks... my goodness... I honestly don't know what I would have done without her. She was my slave for those 2 weeks... getting me water, making me food, cleaning my room, watching Leah while I bathed and did simple things like brush my teeth and did washing... lol.
Then 12 Jan I left for Cape Town... 10 hour flight to Germany, 12 hour layover, another 10 hours flight to Joberg and then finally 2 hours to Cape Town! What a trip... and what a journey to get to where I am now... motherhood here I come!!
I will def do a special on the first 4 months and how she is doing really soon... and of coarse post updated pics. This is all I can afford to do for now xxx
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