looking for stockists

we are currently looking for more local & international stockists for our gorgeous new range of designer hospital gowns - the chic alternative for the maternity ward!

if you have a maternity and/or baby store, either online or actual shop front and are interested in stocking this chic and innovative product i would love to hear from you.

please email your interest to designermamas@bigpond.com and our new range can be viewed here.

our new range - so exciting!

i am simply bursting out of my skin about our new range of designer hospital gowns that are coming very soon! we have 4 gorgeous new prints available in 3 sizes, S/M, L/XL & Plus Size 1X.

from top left: Sassy Mama, Chic Mama, Princess Mama & Designer Mama

they are available for pre-sale purchase off our website now designer mamas with stock expected to arrive approximately May 2011.

i really hope you love them just as much as i do.

i'm a winner!

i can proudly no longer lay claim to the statement 'i never win anything'!

i was soooooo excited to receive an email a week ago advising me i had won a brand new HiLo Highchair on Babyology.

i really found it quite impossible to believe and to be honest i thought someone was having a lend of me. then the box arrived and nope it wasn't a joke i really did win a fabulous new highchair with a value of $399.95.

so this is my new baby..

it's groovy, practical and going to make a great edition to our family!

and we're baking another.......

GIRL!

had our 20 week scan today and we have a wonderfully healthy & happy baby girl baking away in my tummy.

our gorgeous little bundle was so well behaved for the whole scan and everything is where is should be and measuring correctly.

i feel a little sad for my little man who won't have a brother but selfishly i kind of like that he is my only special little boy. i am just so thrilled that everything was ok and the baby is all healthy.

hope you are all having a wonderful week!

feeling boo hoo

i'll be 20 weeks along this week, and oh boy how quickly this is all happening. i'm sure with each pregnancy the time just seems to go by quicker, i guess because life is just so busy, there isn't much time to just sit or think about being pregnant.

getting further along has prompted me to really think about the fact that i will be having another cesarean. i cannot stress enough how much i really, really, really do not want to have surgery again. having done both natural (my first 2) then cesarean (my 3rd) i know the difference and i can tell you 1000% i would rather labour for 30hrs, heck even 48hrs to avoid that surgery and the recovery pain.

a sterile, cold operating room full of people, bright blinding lights being strapped to a table is not my idea of celebrating the birth of my baby. now i'm not an all natural type of woman for birth, i do have epidurals which means i am confined to the bed for my birth, but i do have my husband with me ALL the time and i have my favourite cd playing on the stereo and my lip gloss on my table right at arms lenght. all of that is gone by signing up for a repeat cesarean.

i thought i had dealt with this and i was 'ok' with the surgery and recovery but i just don't think i am.

i just watched a video of a woman who had a cesarean for her first birth after 'failure to progress' then she had a planned cesarean with her 2nd baby as she was told the baby was 'big' then she had a home water birth for her 3rd. i cried and cried. i remember lying on that operating table being absolutely terrified and i just know i am going to be terrified again.

my husband wants me to have the cesarean as he do not want to take a risk no matter how small. he said 'you've done it natural, you have given birth before'. i guess by that he means i have done it that way, i've had my experience, now it's just time to go with the 'safe' way. it is so not about that for me. i know i can do it, i've done it. it's about the experience as explained above and the recovery.

my dr said he would support a vbac for me but he 'really doesn't recommend it'. i get this, dr's are all about avoiding any risk and obviously he can't tell me all will be fine. he has seen a rupture before and actually had to repair it but he has not had a patient in his care that has ruptured. possibly because they all have repeat cesareans perhaps?

i am conflicted and it doesn't sit well with me.

have you had a vbac & what was you experience? or alternatively, did you choose to have a repeat cesarean, if so were you happy with your choice. i would love to hear from you to try and make this decision a little easier for me.

thanks in advance.

update

well i'm 17 weeks along now, oh how quickly that has gone!

i had an ob visit yesterday and was really hoping he could see the sex of the baby but as usual my children never participate in ultrasounds and he couldn't see.

i was quite disappointed but really i kind of knew he wasn't going to be able to tell yet. my 20 week scan is in 3 weeks so lets hope they can see then!

but all good news with the baby growing well and the right size with a good strong heartbeat so things are progressing well.

17 week old baby

until next time..

is it worth it?

every thursday or friday night we have a babysitter that comes so husband and i can have 'date night'.

i decided that instead of getting the cleaner in every week this was a better use of our money at this point in time. as most of you would know i'm sure, it can be difficult to get to even talk as a couple with little children around let alone actually spend quality time.

i am starting to rethink.

so for example last week - husband was actually home reasonably early to 'help'. what proceeded to happen was this: husband takes work phone call and spends the next 45 mins outside on the phone. inside there was complete chaos unfolding and after edi had fallen off the change table, lachlan had peed everywhere and the spaghetti pasta had boiled dry on the stove i felt a little.... stressed.

all of this is going down whilst i am trying to also get myself ready to go out. i push on and cuddle edi until she stops screaming, change lachlan & clean up the pee, salvage the pasta from the stove, feed the kids, put edi to bed and finish getting ready. then husband walks in from his phone call and says 'ok are we nearly ready to go?' i look at him with what must look like devil eyes and say something to the effect of 'yes and no thanks to you!'

once we actually get going and have our evening it is always very nice.

but is it really worth it? i mean really, really worth it?

this week was similar in that by the time i was leaving the house i am stressed. and correct me if i am wrong but isn't part of the whole purpose of going out for dinner so you can relax, talk, enjoy each other's company and so you don't have to cook dinner? so i have to cook dinner anyway, isn't that kind of half defeating the purpose?

what are your thoughts, do you think it's worth the effort and stress?