Welcome Mila Winnie

We're three weeks in and i've finally found the time to put up a blog post about our new arrival. I say 'found the time' loosely, i'm currently writing this with my 3 week old child lying on my chest as everytime I try to put her down she wakes up #newmumproblems, but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way. Mila Winnie Smith made her entrance into the world to Beyonce's Lemonade album, on 6th May at 1.54am weighing 7Ibs12oz and we've been living in our little bubble of bliss ever since.I will share my full labour & delivery story in the coming weeks but I had the water birth that I wanted and I can't rave about the birthing pool enough, it made my labour so much more manageable and just heightened the whole birth experience for me. Like I said they'll be more to come on the labour story but for now we're just enjoying this time settling in to our new lives as parents, if i'm honest I just can't stop staring at her and even 3 weeks in I still can't believe she's the little person I carried for nine months.

The Waiting Game - 41 weeks

We took this picture last week when I was just 1 day overdue, fast forward a week and baby still isn't here and i'm now 41 weeks + 3. I always thought that she'd be overdue - Joe and I are known in our friendship group for being the late couple so I naturally assumed she'd followed suit, but I wasn't prepared for her to be 10 days late, i'm not going to lie it's been driving me a little crazy.

I feel like we've been living on borrowed time almost, in a state of limbo, not really wanting to plan anything in case she makes an appearance but not wanting to do nothing completely. But we're almost at the end game, if I don't go into labor in the next two days then they'll induce me.

Despite the anxiety and limbo of waiting it's made me want motherhood even more - right now I don't even care about the pain of labor or the sleepless nights I just really really want to meet her and want her to arrive safe and sound.