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The Park on a Sunday (could be a tradition?)

I love taking Reagan and Lincoln out on a Sunday morning any time of the year but when we have to wrap up warm on a foggy cold Autumn morning like yesterday its especially enjoyable. We took snacks and drinks and set off leaving Mommy to have a little alone time in the house to shower and get some OU homework done.

With potty training well underway I took a portapotty with us and it wasn’t long before Reagan was sat on it on the canal bank and again in the middle of Tesco’s car park (which I will remind her about many times in a few years lol) Then after calling in Tesco’s to get Lincoln a new tooth brush and some bread for the ducks we went to the park for PLAY and eat our snacks.

The slides OK Daddy but we want a go on the swings

HIGHER Daddy HIGHER!

Dad this is the best fun EVER!

We always have such a great time but sometimes Reagan has a little “hissy”

…OK Daddy I want to ride this one! I want to ride this one! I want to ride this one!

I WANT TO RIDE THIS ONE……NOOOOOOOOOOO!

She soon realises that I am ignoring her and calms down, and is playing again as though nothing happened? We left the park watching a grandad trying to get his grandaughter off the swing and into a pram when she was rigidly straightening to avoid going back in and only becomes compliant when he put her back in swing at which point he had completely lost any fight. As I passed him I said I feel your pain brother but there is now only one way and that is to drag her off kicking and screaming and she will be fine outside the park (This is what he did when I was right down the road hehehe) but not before I had walked off the park with both my smiling and happy children, little did he know I was crossing everything and praying to a god I don’t even believe in that they didn’t kick off making me look like I knew nothing.

Here you swans, BREAKFAST!

Reagan stop eating the bread, it’s for the ducks!

Look Daddy! Bye Bye water!

By the time we got home it was a really nice day and all the fog had gone we had some dinner and they went to bed leaving Mommy and I to a peacefull couple of hours doing nothing….PERFECT!

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Jamie’s Choir

I don’t think I have mentioned before on the blog but along with her already busy life and the many activities and hobbies she has going on she has Jamie has now joined the choir and has so much enthusiasm for it because she loves singing whether it be in the choir or around the house. The following pictures are of her first big performance in front of 200+ people and the VIP in the front was Bobby Ball a star of stage and television (back in the 80’s he and Tommy Cannon were Britain’s biggest stars) She was so nervous on the night but she is so good she took it in her stride and it went well.

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Spitfire over Middlewich

It was World War II weekend in Middlewich and easily the highlight of the whole event was the Spitfire fly past

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…and so it begins :-)

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hummm note to self, must buy BIG box of washing powder!
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The Forsters

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Our First Family Photo!
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28th April 2010

I was woken by Jamie on all fours gripping the headboard!

Now that’s an opening line 😉 but unfortunately “that’s how we got into this predicament in the first place!
We spent all yesterday pissed off with latent labour since Sunday and all the mis information we were given about, definitely not in labour, only a matter of time though, you need to calm down and all that shit “Fuck Off” So last night we ended the day with dare I say it on here a whole bottle of wine each a fabulously spicy tea and 3 helium filled balloons, there’s just something so funny about that squeaky voice you get… So we went to bed relaxed and happy
05:16 Woken by Jamie in labour maybe?

05:55 Waters broke possibly?
06:00 Hot bath definately!
06:13 Rings mommy!
06:55 Off to hospital
We get to the hospital and were put in the birthing pool room (the last room available on a very busy morning) this made Jamie sooo happy because it was her plan for a water birth but the first thing we had to tell them did not bode well for that to happen, green discharge!
They see that immediately as a distressed baby and insist on monitoring it all the time so we had to accept straight away that the pool was a no go and were moved to room 7 (now etched on me mind) where we set up camp for the duration.
Jamie settled into a good routine of contraction-breath-rest using gas and air but it was apparent to me that this was not going to be easy for her and Jamie realised this too!
IF MY TIMINGS ARE OFF HERE IT IS BECAUSE I WAS CONCENTRATING ON OTHER THINGS
Jamie asked for an epidural around noon when she had been in a lot of discomfort for 8 hours (labour began at 4am, apparently?) our plan was for me to whole heartedly discourage her from this as her birthing partner as this was probably her being weak but, I had witnessed upto this point THEE strongest woman I will ever know dilate to 8cm on her own using only gas and air and she was knackered and in pain (lower back, to be specific) caused by the baby being back to back which is the hardest to deliver! So we (Jamie) decided to have the epidural.
The woman I love had done nothing but labour upto this point and even before the epidural kicked in a smile came onto her face a realisation that what she’d done to this point on gas and air and excruciating agony would soon be over… All of a sudden Jamie was sat there in bed eating a cereal bar laughing and joking and pointing out that the last contraction was massive while still chewing on the cereal bar. Labour had become bareable!
The next 7+ hours her dialation progressed as well as the labour to the point where we could push OMG this was it… this is what you see on the telly SCREAM THE FUCKING PLACE DOWN full on we are about to become parents!
19:30 Jamie was told to PUSH! 3 x per contraction then rest!
She did this relentlessly and better than anybody could have asked of her, she was fantastic!
A back to back delivery is apparently the worst\hardest delivery but Jamie gave it everything she had and then gave the same again for an hour and a half and was still sat there preparing to go again when they (NOT HER!!!) decided enough was enough they needed to try forceps and then C Section after that!
She was prepped for both and taken down to Theatre where they tried to deliver vaginally using forceps and Jamie again PUSHED until they THEY stopped her and moved straight to C Section!
REAGAN GRACE FORSTER was born at 22:07
My Jamie will forever be my hero for what she did today I love her but no longer with all my heart (I am crying as I write this) because a little girl has stolen some of it away….
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I LOVE YOU BOTH JAMIE & REAGAN, FOREVER!
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…and RELAX!

Not going to mention today, I will start when I got home from work and found Jamie asleep on the sofa and tried to creep past her but she stirred when I kissed her arm she smiled a true “I am really glad your here” kind of smile. She makes me feel so good without even trying, and I don’t know what I did in my life to deserve half of how she makes me feel?

She had a real moment of tears missing the fact that her friends were not here to share all this with her and that really upset her and also me, because its the one thing I can’t make right…I know some of you read this and if I can tell you that the tears I saw tonight were soo heart felt as she felt so alone even though I was sat right next to her! She really misses you more than you will ever know.
So we talked about what had gone on and sorted out in our heads what WE want to do and then decided to walk into town. Jamie was tired but we need to keep active and not to resort to draconian measures like lying down and accepting its how its got to be? Jamie is not like that but her will was ripped from her but it was back now and a few hugs later we were by the canal chatting with not a care in the world (almost?)
The plan we (when I say we I actually mean Jamie!) formulated was Crack open a bottle of wine and get relaxed on the patio I made a chicken cajun stir fry on a bed of coriander rice followed by strawberry cheesecake!
I am sat here now with THE most relaxed pregnant woman in England boncing on a ball laughing and chatting to her bezzie on the phone…
Oh, and I had wine too YAY!
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We HATE Branston Pickles

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Jamie summing up her feelings, in one picture!
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…and relaxes in the garden talking to “mom”!
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Waiting it out…

Hummm reading back yesterdays blog tells me to probably refrain from blogging whilst pissed lol

Labour pains all day walked in the morning and this afternoon but not amounting to anything which is annoying. Began to spot late on today so we decided to go get checked out at the hospital where we were told it is early latent labour baby’s fine water still intact and baby has back to Jamie’s back so we were given exercises to do to turn her but we were sent home to wait for progression
So a short blog today as I’m off to bed
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Drinkin’ ’bout my baby…!

She yogi’ed we walked we had visitors…
Due date and Jamie’s will has all but disappeared, although what I will say is: she is THE bestest strongest mostest positive woman I have ever known and she rocks my world….why doesn’t our child want to meet her ? She is discharching plug like there’s no tomorrow but….
I don’t want to hug a plug?
OK no baby but when we walk all around Middlewich then stop at the Big Lock to replenish fluids I end up drunk…We text John (without doubt me bezzi) and he turned up to while away a….well a while?
If me wife leaves a phone on the table when I’ve had a…..and I walk all the way back to the pub and stand in the middle of that pub and call her phone and when a bloke answers it I take it from him (it was the landlord) then dash to catch me wife up but get talkin’ to a bloke Jamie just talked to and both of us end up at home in the sun….
We were planning tea when Karl and Karen turn up and I don’t mind admitting I was tipped up when they arrived….but I felt great! We had chicken and chips for tea and bread and butter fernominizzle
maybe baby tomorrow?
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