Jai🤍

6 months of Air bear and being her mumma 🤍

Something about Barbados will always give you yourself back 🩷 just sat here reminiscing 🥲

Our theme tune

Sweet matcha, sweet company, sweet flowers on Valentine’s Day.. clearly I’m just a girl who loves love and everything sweet and cute 😆🩷

Such gorgeous rooms in our little cottage

A long family weekend in the cutest cottage you ever saw for mums 50th birthday 💛

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A very sweet Christmas was had✨🎄

6 little weeks with my love. She is perfect. She doesn’t like me to sleep much though lol🥲

Welcome to the world Airlia Giselle Straker 🤍 9 months of pregnancy finally come to an end. A challenging year, due to a condition I developed during pregnancy that took my muscle strength, severe numbness, no longer being able to walk by myself and weeks of treatment in the hospital which had no benefit. Mentally, physically and emotionally so draining. Growing my bubba in my belly absolutely confused the hell out of body. She decided to come two weeks early. I had this feeling that God was going to give me a fast labour as he knew how much I struggled with pregnancy and just that, he gave me. On the day of birth through the contractions I felt him tell me that everything I’ve gone through this year, this final part (the labour) is going to be the last bit, it would be hard but something so beautiful would come at the end and a completely new chapter would begin. Most of labour was at home surrounded by my family, until the last few hours where we headed to hospital and I genuinely was ready to die. Hypnobirthing went out of the window and the worst pain took over my whole body. I was saying to Tariq “at this rate I’ll just have a c section.” “God why” “Jesus please” was all I could pray.. the scripture came to mind that he stores every tear we shed in a bottle, and there I was shedding them all. I knew he and all my angels were with me but I also felt so betrayed that I was going through this excruciating level of agony. Now it’s over, she is here and is perfect but god.. processing everything that just happened is still in progress. I’m still dealing with my condition but slowly it will disappear. All I can say is I am so grateful, for Airlia, for my love Tariq who has carried me over the past 9 months with so much love, patience and little laughs that keep me light hearted, and for my mother and family who have showered me with love and kept my spirits high. For any women going through a tough pregnancy, birth, medical difficulties.. you aren’t alone. Release the emotions stored in your body caused by the adversity, cry when you need to cry and ride the wave, please be patient and kind to yourself. 🤍

A beautiful shower for our bubbas soon arrival 🌸🩷 so grateful to be surrounded by so much love

Family & sun 💛🌞