Quick post to say hi

Hi All! I have no idea where my post just went so I will write a shortened version. Basically, I am once again struggling with my weight and am determined to fix it. Have spent 12 weeks feeling sorry for myself and now need to snap out of it. Craig is 12 weeks old and is doing great. He giggles a lot and seems to be quite a happy baby. Don't get me wrong he does cry but not very often - or for long... Hopefully that doesn't change..

I have attached a pic of him. If you add me as a friend on Facebook you will see a whole collection of pics of him and other things. My computer is way to slow to add a heap of pics in various locations so I mainly add them to Facebook.

Happy exercising and eating and I look forward to sharing some weight loss news with you soon. :)

Craig, Craig, Craig!

Hi All,

Well now that things have settled down around here I thought that I would post an update. Craig is 4 weeks old today and is doing fantastically. I couldn’t really ask for a better baby. He sleeps well and feeds extremely well! He wakes every 3-4 hours for feeding and lets out an almighty scream when he is ready! He also lets you know when his nappy needs changing but other than that he doesn’t scream a lot. He is very alert and I am amazed at how strong he is. He can lift his head and tries to help you feed him by hanging onto the bottle. Hopefully he stays this calm! He does like to wriggle about so I am thinking he will be an active toddler!

Me on the other hand we I am doing ok. My husband went back to work two days after I got home from hospital (which doesn’t bother me). He is a fantastic help though. He certainly knows what his jobs are when he comes home from work. Lol.. He has also taken over dinner making duties which is great.

I will admit I did do a lot of crying in the first 2 weeks or so. They prepare you for the 3 day baby blues in hospital but no one told me I would cry when I was at home. As much as I love being at home I guess I was struggling with not knowing what to do and really being restricted by not being able to go anywhere. I recovered from my caesarean in about 2 weeks so it has been frustrating. I have looked forward to our weekend outings though. Lol.. I ended up driving yesterday. Stuff waiting for 6 weeks..

I am not sure exactly what I do with my time but it sure goes quickly!

Fat Bums are us

Oh my gosh! I am going to have to be really careful while I am on Maternity Leave or else I will explode. I am just under the weight I was when I started the big John Challenge but granted I did lose 10 or so when I had Craig in Baby weight and fluid etc… It is going to be crucial for me to watch what I eat and make sure that we have lots of fresh food in the house. Luckily I am watching our pennies so take away wont be an option unless it is special occasion or a very tiring Friday evening.

While I was pregnant Pooks did most of the cooking so he has learned so many new recipes in the past few months and has cooked every night since I came home from hospital which has been a godsend. That said at 2:00am this morning Craig and I were both wide awake, he was happily munching on his hand and I was looking for something sweet to munch on. Thankfully our cupboards are pretty void of junk food at this point in time. That said I will need to be extra careful that I don’t start to develop bad habits in the middle of the night!

Important Details

Trust me to get so caught up in the moment I forget to even tell you the details of Baby Pooks. Craig Andrew Tregilgas, born 15th July 08, 6lb 3oz, 45cm, 3 weeks early! Craig has a lovely head of dark hair which we in the family call "Carney Hair". :)

- The Andrew is after my brother of whom I love dearly, The Craig is after Craig Lowndes whom Colin loves dearly.. lol…

I am a Mum!

Phew so it has been a crazy couple of weeks! So much has happened in such a short amount of time. It still feels surreal. I went to my routine OB appointment (11th July) and she took my blood pressure which was extremely high. It had always been quite low in the past so she was concerned. Did a urine sample, had heaps of protein in it, she made a few phone calls, then told me to go straight to hospital as they were expecting em and that I would be admitted straight away.

Nice.

So still there Monday OB does some tests decides they should try to induce cause my stats weren’t getting any better. Induction Gel doesn’t work, the have another go on Tuesday morning. Tuesday evening my husband brings me in Subway, I eat shite loads of onion, they put a monitor on the baby at 8:30pm, OB comes to visit while it is on, is not happy with the results – emergency c section, baby wasn’t coping so well…

Baby is delivered by 9:15pm, I am a Mum, and the rest is history……….So I thought.

Bub was taken to the Intensive Care nursery cause of my gestational diabetes, he stayed there til I brought him home yesterday. He is well but it sucked being away from him.. Didn’t get to touch him when he was born until the next day.

As for me, well you know, so far so good. Not much pain, am up and about back to being bossy and a princess. Piece of cake this delivery thing. My wound is looking great and I really think that my recovery has been ok because he was in the nursery and it made me get out of bed everyday to go upstairs in the hospital to see him…I couldn’t just lay around, I had my baby to go and see.

Did have some dramas in the hospital re breast feeding and a few other things but now that I am home it seems like it was years ago! Pooks is doing a great job and it is amazing how natural everything seems to be coming to us.

Anyway best head off. There is a lovely quietness in my house. I am sure it wont last long. :)

No news

No baby news as yet. On maternity leave just sitting around waiting. Actually been a pretty hectic social life most days but Pooks has told me to slow it down a bit and do some relaxing - so that is what I will do...

4 weeks to go. Will let you know once there is some news to report. :)

Big Mamma

I have no idea if people still visit my blog or not but I was sitting here tidying my desk and thought that I would post an update.

All is going seemingly well with the pregnancy and I am told that the baby is bigger than average but growing beautifully. It obviously has my genes then. :) I wont lie and say that it has been easy but it hasn’t been too bad. I am now experiencing back pain and am feeling really heavy. Funny that! I weigh 3kgs heavier now than when I started the Big John Challenge which a) frustrates me because I will have to lose weight again BUT b) is pretty good because I would have hated to be this weight to start with and then falling pregnant so it is quite a double edged sword.

I only have a couple of weeks left to go at work as I am finishing early for my exams and then it will be 6 weeks before the baby is due. Pooks and I are super excited and sometimes we have to remember to stop talking about it so much as it can be boring for others!

Anyway my baby shower invites have gone out, our nursery is looking so cute and new and sparkly and well now I guess it is the waiting game. It is starting to feel very real though! Each pimple that I receive reminds me that my hormones are not normal right now and that something is growing inside of me. I feel it kick all of the time and once it rudely kicked while I was singing!

So that is all from me for now. How you are well and not too cold! I am certainly enjoying only being able to wear tracksuit pants most of the time. :)

Barefoot and Pregnant

Only barefoot and pregnant because it has been so freaking hot!!!!!!!!

When you lose a bunch of weight it kind of sux when you put it back on. I don’t need much reminding that this is a good weight gain though. A button on my pants popped off the other day. I announced my pregnancy on the air today. It felt weird doing so when so many people already know but apparently people have been e-mailing the radio station to see where I am.

Everything is going super well. So well in fact that I spent the first 3 months of my pregnancy thinking that something bad was going to happen. It is still in the back of my mind but I am getting more and more excited. Am at the half way point now so have to start seriously thinking about getting things ready.

I haven’t put on as much weight as I thought I would so far. Obviously I still have a long way to go but while I am the size of a house I can still wear my own clothes. Clothes which of course became too big last year and are now rather tight in places.

Pooks is taking fantastic care of me and even though he thinks I have been possessed by the hormone devil I do appreciate everything he is doing.

Oranges have probably been my biggest craving to date. Have to eat them everyday. Also went through a phase where I would have a sausage roll and sauce with a chocolate milk for breakfast. That seems to have passed but I do hope it comes back again.. ha ha! Have pretty much gone off fatty and oily foods. The smell does nothing for me. I spent the weekend at the lovely Nambucca Heads (just south of Coffs Harbour) for a family do and while everyone had battered fish by the sea I had crumbed.

I was worried about egtting pregnant in a way because of putting on more weight. When I was at the gym though the trainers kept saying you will be ok as long as you don't eat for two. The baby will get the nutrients it needs. I think that me continuing to do this is really helping.

Anyway I just wanted to say hi and let you know that all is going well with baby Pooks. I hope your weight loss journeys are going well.

Some news - Drum Roll please

Hello!

I am sorry for being a couple of days late. I didn’t even realise what the date was until I had to fill some forms out at work. Lame but true.

So as you know I entered the Big John competition for various reasons. Lose weight, gain confidence, blah blah. It is fair to say that during the course of the challenge I achieved most things that I said I would do when first chosen.

I can now proudly tell you all that during the week I had my 12 week ultra sound as I am pregnant! I have known for two months now and it has been killing me keeping such a secret and in fact have now achieved everything I said (and hoped I would).

My exercise routine has completely disappeared as I struggled to even wake up for work every morning and then fell asleep in the evenings. While I have not been terribly sick I have just never felt tiredness like this before. I have put on some weight however recognise that being overweight is not good for myself or the baby so try my best to eat healthy however I have been eating a lot of ice cream.

I am not sure if I will continue with the blog this year however will post every now and then.

In closing it is so great to know that I was in a healthy enough place to be able to conceive considering that I never thought that I would and everything from here is in god’s hands – what will be, will be.

From Mamma Shell

Back blogging???

Just to let you know that I will be back blogging 17th January. I have a reason for picking that date. You will find out then. :)