Life in the New Zealand Countryside

• Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - New Life In New Zealand

Hello again everyone, old friends who have read my blog before and new ones too!! Its been more than 6 months since I updated here, mainly due to having a baby in November and moving from France to New Zealand back in August last year. But we are here now and have settled (for the moment!) in the north island of New Zealand, in the same area where I was born and spent the first 8 years of my life. We are in a place called Waimauku,10 minutes from the beach, which is on the west coast, and about 30 minutes from Auckland, NZ's largest city. When we left France I was about 7 months pregnant with our second baby. We spent two months down south, living near my parents, and the plan was to have baby there, then move up here, but one day my hubby just decided that we were moving now!...... two weeks before I was due!!!!!!! So we packed up the truck,  and drove the 15 odd hours it takes to get to Auckland, stopping one night half way. We spent two weeks looking for work for hubby and a place to live and found this house just days before I gave birth. Baby was 4 days overdue and it seemed like he was holding on until we were well and truely settled. On the 26th November our baby Damodar came, after an amazing water birth at home, with the midwife arriving just 15 minutes before he was born. The birth was 3 1/2 hours long, and only one hour of that was hard work. Im totally blown away at the power of the female body to give birth and was on a euphoric high for several days afterwards. It was incredibly healing and helped all my feelings of failure and inadequacy from my previous birth just melt away. Hes now 7 weeks old and just beautiful, hes so peaceful and settled. Damodar is about 4 weeks old here, with his older brother Syam, who had just turned 2.

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