1 week 2 January started out as a waiting game.

We counted the days as new year and my birthday and finally my due date came and went with no signs of the baby making an appearance and by the time I was a week overdue I'd given up any hope of the relaxed homebirth we'd been hoping for. 

But then on that evening the sporadic niggling I'd been experiencing for weeks finally began to form some sort of rhythm, and before I'd barely had enough time to get my head around the idea that this really, really might just be it, he was here (arriving just before the second midwife got to us). 

Our beautiful boy Fox Jasper Kit was born at 2:37am on the 11th of January, happy, healthy and at home and everything since then has been a whirlwind of medical appointments, nappy changes, learning how to do everything one handed and gushing about what a spectacular big sister Rory has already turned out to be. 

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