Balloons explosion

Megha visited tonight and brought with her half of the balloon shop.

Both boys will enjoy them :)

Milo

A stay at the hospital would not be complete without Milo for tea break.

Thomas Elliot Matteo

Although Pikachu seemed very comfortable inside the belly, due to a slightly elevated blood pressure, we decided to induce the process this morning.

We woke up early and got ready for the hospital leaving Oskar with my mum and Agnes.

I was admitted at 7:30am. While Wolfram was doing the paperwork, my blood was taken - a lot of it as we had decided to collect the cord blood. At least this time we had organized ourselves in advance. 

At 9am the water bag was broken.

At 10am the epidural was put in place. This is one of the greatest inventions on this planet.

At 11am the hormones were started and so did the wait.

Around noon, my mum came over with food and the missing phone charger.

At 1pm, I was only 3cm dilated confirming that Pikachu was nice and cosy inside. At that point, Wolfram left for home with my mum to get my laptop so we could watch something because according to the doctor it would not be before 6-7pm.

Of course only a little while after Wolfram left, the heart beat of Pikachu dropped. They asked me to change positions until we had the heart beat back under control and gave me oxygen. I never felt so scared in my life. I messaged Wolfram to come back as quickly as possible already fearing that we would need a c section and that he might miss it. Luckily things went back into order and around 3pm the hormones were restarted.

At 5pm, dilation was 5cm forecasting a long night ahead. Apparently the rule is 1cm per hour but somehow Pikachu had changed his mind. By 6pm we were at 9cm significantly accelerating the process and around 7:30pm our second boy was borne.

Thomas Elliot Matteo.

51cm.

3.6kg. 

Overall much bigger than Oskar at birth which is probably why it took longer.

It was too late to bring in Oskar who fell asleep much faster than usual at home. He will meet his little brother tomorrow.

After Wolfram took 200 pictures, we left the delivery suite to our room to rest and spend more time with our little one.

I'm exhausted, but happy. 

It's getting closer

In our weekly visit to the doctor, she confirmed what I felt a couple of days ago: Pikachu is down, right behind the exit door. 

Anytime now he could decide to push it and come out.

But apparently not today. 

Maybe tomorrow. Fingers crossed. 

Until then I have to rest to keep my blood pressure under control which is going to be tricky because doing nothing is not my area of expertise. 

Feeling like Christmas

My mum arrived yesterday with a suitcase full of gifts.

Gifts for Oskar with clothes, toys and books.

Gifts for Pikachu with clothes and the additional baby monitor we ordered.

Gifts for us with books, clothes, crepes, Briton cookies, chocolate, cheese (well that's for Wolfram), wine, champagne and even some macaroons from La Duree. 

While she was emptying her suitcase, it felt like Santa distributing gifts. There was huge excitement in the house.

Thank you mum for once again acting as déménageur breton :) 

Still waiting

One week home and still no baby. I'm running out of ideas to occupy myself. 

Everything I could do for the baby is done.

Any errand I could think of is done.

There is so much swimming I can do and even that won't fill in the days.

Yes, I'm bored and glad that my mum arrived so I have some company.

Now, where is the trampoline to jump on and speed things up. 

Waiting

Today is my first day of maternity leave. Apart from a couple of errands and finishing setting up for Pikachu, my main activity will be waiting until it's time.

Days are going to be long...