The time machine has dumped me here, 9 years later!

I turned over in my sleep and experienced the sharpest back pain. I didn't think too much about the fact that it had diminished by the time I climbed back into bed and fell back asleep. But sleep didn't last long....my intended sleep-in lasted about 1 hour before yet again I was awoken with back pain. Sharp, stabbing pains in the back that couldn't be ignored.

I got up and showered and was curious to find that the pains came and went as I showered, but it couldn't be labour?....just some weird phenomenon! I was only 37.5 weeks pregnant and this was my first, besides all the books had said that the pain is in the front and is like period pains.

Within an hour my denial was diminishing quickly as I rocked on the fitball and had summoned my husband home from work!

Within two hours we were on our way to hospital.

The first nurse i saw while getting the antibiotic drip put in, was a lovely little chinese woman. As I began to moan through the pain she very sternly said to me, "Do not yell or scream! Take that pain and hold it in and allow it to make you stronger!". She became my Yoda. For the rest of the labour I did not scream and I felt the most I empowered and in control that I had ever felt In my life!

At 3.30pm I looked at the clock and exclaimed out loud that school would just be finishing and my Preps going home. I felt relieved I was missing the Monday night meeting. I Guess the 2.5 weeks maternity leave hadn't erased the work girl from me yet.

Half an hour later I told them that I had changed my mind. That I couldn't do this and would like to go home. They sweetly told me that just wasn't going to happen ;).

At just after 6 with just three pushes my beautiful first child entered this world. With a set of lungs he exercised strongly telling us for the first time (but certainly not the last!!) that he was here and he was perfect!
At 26 years of age I became a Mum.

Since that point he has not only guided me in my new parent role but has taken the world that I knew before and turned it on its head in a deliciously good way. He has made me a better and more compassionate teacher. He has given me an understanding and openness to discover and understand others that i never knew I possessed. He has opened my eyes to a wonderful new view of the world and his interactions with it.

He is my son and he is my world.

Happy Birthday my beautiful K-Man.




I hope today is all that you dreamed and that your beloved footy team win the game tonight for you.

As I squeezed you tight this morning and your sister said I was squashing you to death I loved your response that I better stop as you have another 90 birthdays to live after this one and don't want to die earlier than you should. I hope that I am there for as many of those as possible.

Love you to the moon and back 100 times Master K

xoxoxoxox Mum