Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

A new LOVE

Life can change, quite literally, in a heartbeat. After years of snap-happy milestones, red carpet events and romantic adventures, those cute moments are now getting ruined by explosive baby poos, Matilda is cracking jokes about her leaking boobs, and Art is waving around the breast pads she forgot to put on.

There’s nothing quite like a new baby to throw a spanner in the works.

‘I JUST KNEW I WANTED TO GIVE BIRTH WHERE I PERSONALLY FELT THE SAFEST’

Although Matilda looks as fresh as a daisy when we meet and seems far more relaxed than you might expect from the mother of a four-and-a-half-month-old bub, the journey leading up to this point hasn’t been an easy ride, and she’s determined to break down the illusion of perfection that social media tends to create.

Terrible morning sickness had her on constant high alert for a bathroom (or sometimes a bush) for six months of her pregnancy, she struggled with intense fatigue and her changing body, and her homebirth in Warkworth didn’t quite go to plan either thanks to an unexpected power cut.

One would think that a lack of electricity would surely qualify for the

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