Emmeline (3 days old) - 19th July

Picture with uncle Tony
Eating corn....
Lara talking on the phone...
We are all a bit tired....
Family of four =)

Looking a bit tired
Do I look like Lara's baby??
Dale came to visit, i think Lara wants Emmeline to have a drink!

First time in her car capsule

In the car with Emmeline going home
Gentle.. Gentle.. very good girl....ok.... Lara don't scratch or pinch baby!!
More kisses
Trying to touch the baby, be careful!!
With my baby whom I haven't seen for days!

One of my favorite picture with Emmeline
Lara trying on Baby's hat, mind you, she doesn't like hats at all! She is already starting to copy baby!
Ok... more kisses, and more!
OHHHH... How lovely, big kisses for Emmeline
I am not so sure if Emmeline wants to!

Would you like a cuddle Lara?

In her hospital bassinett
Today is the day for Emmeline and I to go home!! Reed and I had disappeared on Lara for three full days. She has became a WILD child. Very hard to manage. We are eager to go home and get things back to NORMAL??? Well, trying anyway. This is the first official time that we introduced Emmeline to Lara.


Video: Having her first look at Emmeline

Video: Emmeline's first ride home

Emmeline (2 days old) - 18th July

My baby is smiling already! How clever!

I love kissing photos

I wish I had these photos with Lara!

More family photos ^__~

Aunt Cherie

Cousin Seanna came to visit

Baby Clark tag

Tiny fingers

Dale called it the Alien eyes, it is kinda spooky..

Watching tv with dad at the hospital, they look so alike!

Emmeline is two days old, still a bit puffy

Video: Having a quiet chat with Emmeline

Video: Reed playing with Emmeline........

Emmeline (1 day old) - 17th July

First smiles =)

And with Grandma
Cuddles with grandpa
Debera and Thomas came to visit

She is soooo gorgeous!

MMM lovely, I enjoyed the cuddles I had with Emmeline at the hospital, just the two of us, lots of rest and peace from everything else ^___~
Little budda

Video: First nappy change with dad

Video: First bath

Becoming Emmeline - 28th Oct 2007 to 11:14pm 16th July 2008

My Princess

Getting ready for bed, see the lovely blanket? I made it. I am very pround of that. ^__~
Getting dressed by dad

My full term baby! 3.5 kg, I was very proud of myself.

Lara was a tiny 2.64 kg baby 4 week early. I was glad I made it full term.
Kiss from dad
Hi Dad!!
First photo with mum and dad
You can see what I mean! Bigger features

When Emmeline was born, all her features were huge! She had a big nose, full lips, big cheeks and eyes, very very different to Lara when Lara was born.

But she was beautiful in her own way.
First cuddles with mum

Emmeline Grace Clark

Born 16th July 2008 at 11:14pm, weight 3.5 kg

The Labour

The contraction started at 4am and contracting every 6 min. I thought it was great! I was going to have Emmeline very soon, much shorter than my labour with Lara which was 26 hours. I was excited, I packed my bags, Emmeline's bag and Lara's bag and it was only 7:30am. We had breakfast and looking forward to have this baby during DAY time. Lara went with my mum around 9am and that is when things started to slow down. The contraction became every 8to10 min apart which is not looking good. Reed and I went out for a long walk and nothing improved, infact, it stopped at 12:30pm. I was EMOTIONAL. I was in tears.... WHAT WAS GOING ON!! I had my husband taking a day off work, my mum took a day off work, my bags were packed, and the contractions just stopped. I was crying non stop and slept. Reed and I decided that if we were not going to have the baby at least we have to go see the new Batman movie, the Dark Knight. We both had been looking forward to it. So we went! However, my contractions started again at 5pm just about 1 hour before the movie, I was a little worried and put all the bags in the car with us just in case.

I was enjoying the movie and timing the contractions at the same time, it was getting intense and close. I was struggling the last 30 min of the movie and we raced to the hospital. We arrived at 9:15pm waited for the midwife and have all the check up done and checked into the labour room around 10:15pm. I jumped on the bed and started using gas..... within 45 min, I was already pushing..... and Emmeline Grace Clark was born at 11:14pm. We were only in the hospital for less than 2 hours..... She was beautiful and healthy. We were very happy and I was glad that the pain was over....

The last family photo just the three of us!
16th July around 9 am, contracting every 6 minutes

9 months - 2 days before birth
9 months - 9 days before birth
8.5 months
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5.5 months
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4 months
12 weeks
10 weeks

Brushing teeth - 11th July

Well, like food, Lara is pretty moody when it comes with brushing teeth. Sometimes she absolutely hates brushing teeth, it is like the most horrible thing on earth, like asking Reed to eat lobster I guess. And there are times we brushes her teeth for 10 minutes at the time, even brush her baby's teeth!