Thinking of you both, Hot1 and Special. These last few weeks trying to get everything organised are busy.

One week in with three and doing okay. Bit daunted about the return to school/work and trying to ignore the reality for another few days at least. DD2 starts preschool next week, so that will ease us back into normality.

Had a lovely long chat with my m/w yesterday to debrief the birth. I think the greatest impact was on DP though. The photos of him with DD3 an hour after the event and his face is still completely set in shock. He was completely unprepared, whereas I at least had read enough to feel like I knew what to do. Mind you, he now gets to quite proudly tell everyone about his vital role in her birth and that gets him quite a bit of kudos.

I have come to the conclusion that (each) birth is a journey all of its own and thinking it would go a particular way was just unrealistic on my part. I consider myself so incredibly lucky to have my two homebirths and have everything go so smoothly that any disappointment/shock has been dissipated.

And I did spend my whole pg saying that I didn't want to push for 50 mins again. Kinda expected more than three pushes (and that was me slowing it down!), but I certainly can't complain.

Might write up my birth story tomorrow.