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4 months later

Well so much has changed.  First when I look at the blog and see the girl in the wedding dress I relies I will never be her again...so my blog feels poorly named.  Mind you I still would like to be that skinny, but from the c section scar to the loss of hair my body will never look like that again, never mind what will happen to my boobs...eek!
Second I truly don't have the same ability to throw myself into weight watchers and the gym like I would like to.  I am trying but if r is sleeping during a meeting time, lets face it I am not waking him up and chances are if I'm lucky I am sleeping too.  And with breast feeding yes it burns calories but I am starving for sugary carbs all the time...all the time.  Also who wants to go to the gym and get their bum kicked for an hour by a beautiful skinny not even thinking about have kids trainer.  I mean I've had my bum kicked 24/7 for the last 4 months by a very chubby and cute baby...he runs me off my feet like K at her worst all day long.  It's difficult every single day trying to find a balence between caring for R and caring for myself.
Third I'm a mom and at the end of the day if everyone is alive, happy and the house is remotly clean its a successful day.  Diet and exercise go out the window more days then I would like.  Teething baby who is cranky and wants to be held gets priority over supper.  We are in busy season so LB is working late and away some nights so seeing K often doesn't happen and appointments have to be canceled.

Pictures

All right here are the pictures I said I would post.  These were taken two weeks ago, right after I started going to the gym and weight watcher.  Since then I've lost 4.6 pounds and haven't had time to take another picture.  I do have lots of pictures of this cute little guy! There is a lot of work to be done, and so far it is much harder starting back up...but there is so much more of a motivation.  I want to be a healthy mom to R and show him by example what that is instead of just telling him.

Look at my awesome hand mouth coordination!  These days anything I can pick-up goes to my mouth...yummy!

Finding a groove.

Well life is crazy with a baby...and I feel that we are just getting the hang of it.  I got started back with K in the second week of December but with Christmas,  exams and baby it was hard to get back with any regularity.  Now since the new year I have been three time last week and boy am I sore.  Between K and Baby R I am exhausted and sore, yet I am set up to see K 3 times next week...ouch.    I also joined weight watchers almost three weeks ago, I was/am struggling to eat normal.  Over the last few years my eating has been on extremes too much food or dieting so I feel like I've lost perception on what healthy normal eating is.   So weight watchers it is for now...and in the first 2 weeks I lost 4.6 pounds. So we will see how it unfolds, it seems so hard to do right now...but I think that it's just life with a baby.   Well this post has taken over 45 minutes to write and there is no time for progress pictures, maybe later.

Body after Baby 5 weeks

Well for starters I cannot believe it has only been 5 weeks, it feels like R has been a part of our little family forever now.
So in total I gained at least 33 pounds, (I didn't weigh myself the last two weeks before R arrived so I am not exactly sure) and I have 8 pounds left to get back to pre-baby weight! I am hoping to get cleared by the Dr to start working out again on Tuesday, but I have a feeling because it was a c-section it will be another 2 weeks, for a total of 8 weeks for recovery, but that is better then the original thought of December 1st!
I have healed up amazingly quickly.  I was up walking in about 8 hours as soon as I got the okay for the nurses, and pushed to get discharged a day early, with very little discomfort other then getting up out of bed and from sitting up but that only lasted a couple days. I have been out walking the dogs and the baby whenever I can and getting about 10 km in a week.   So I think the quick recovery and breast feeding have enabled the quick weight loss.

 Yahh for a very hungry baby which is starting to fuss waiting for me to get to feeding him again!

I am not planning on limiting calories while breast feeding, just working out and eating healthy.  As this cute little man with chubby cheeks needs me to be healthy and eating enough for the two of us to be healthy and happy.

Ronan Forrest Bailey

Well I promised myself I would get this out before his one month birthday...and that's today! The top picture was taken yesterday and the bottem when we first got home.  We packed up his newborn clothes this week as he went through his three week growth spurt and could no longer fit it to the clothes.
He was born Tuesday September 25th at 10:43pm, two days early according to the dr's dates and 10 days late by mine.  And at his first dr visit it was determined that he was late and more likely my date was right...so trust your instinct!  I laboured for over 24 hours and then had a C-section.  Labour was long and hard and worth every second of it.  And I can't wait to add to our little family...horray for happy mommy hormones that block out the labour.   I will eventually post more but I started this post this morning and the day has/is coming to an end for our little family, being a mom doesn't leave alot of time for certain things right now!

20 things to do before the bean arrives

      I am going crazy waiting for the baby to arrive.  It could be anytime in the next 4.5 weeks...that seems like far to large of window to expect anyone to wait patiently and not go crazy in the process.  I swore I wouldn't be one on those moms posting everyday on Facebook and complaining that the baby isn't here yet...and well I am one of those...just ask poor LB! Hopefully this list will fill my days and help me pass the time.... 
  
   Buy a post baby outfit! 
     Write wills
   Write letter to baby’s guardians (hardest decision ever) 

   Install car seat and get it checked out by fire department

       Read a good book

      Buy an awesome present for an amazing two year old birthday and attend

   Wrap shower gifts

   Attend KPMG family day/group baby shower

      Start on thank-you’s for baby shower

      Send out appreciation cards

      Bath dogs

     Get dogs meet the baby treats

.   Make 5 more freezer meals

     Have a movie night with the siblings.

     Finish quilt

     Make music playlist for labor

     Make music playlist for the bean...maybe some Raffi and Sharon, Louis and Bram

     Make a new meal maybe Thai?

     Pick blackberries and make something yummy!

     Write letter to baby