Aug 26, 2026 · 14 min · 7 segments
One month into motherhood and I’m sharing what it’s really been like. In this episode, I chat about learning how to balance work with a newborn, why I’ve genuinely loved every moment with Nora (yes…
I will do a podcast on it if you would like to know my birth story.
Because I also didn't really go into how the hospital was after my birth story.
So, please, I'm going to put a little...
We'll turn this little clip into a reel.
If you would like to listen to my birth story full length and what happened in the hospital after she was born, let me know and I will do a podcast solely on that.
But because I've already talked about it on social media, I'm not going to do that episode.
I'm not going to talk about that here, basically.
But let's talk about our first four weeks of Nora's life.
So this is Nora Maeve Leesley.
She was born on the 28th of July at 7.41pm, weighing a whopping £7.14 ounces.
Actually not that big, but we were told she was going to be tiny, so it came as quite a shock to me.
Now she's really tiny.
It's actually just her length.
She's just a really long gal, basically.
She's just going to be tall like her mum and dad.
She's going to be a tall queen.
Anyway, so I ended up having an emergency C-section.
Like I say, if you want me to go into that and do all that story, I'm happy we'll do it again and do a podcast of it and go into it in a little bit more detail.
That's absolutely fine.
But she did end up being in an emergency C-section.
Because, you know, she didn't fancy coming out.
She was just a little bit mad at life and didn't want to come out.
So they cut her out the sunroof.
My recovery has been absolutely amazing.
I will do a podcast on it if you would like to know my birth story.
Because I also didn't really go into how the hospital was after my birth story.
So, please, I'm going to put a little...
We'll turn this little clip into a reel.
If you would like to listen to my birth story full length and what happened in the hospital after she was born, let me know and I will do a podcast solely on that.
But because I've already talked about it on social media, I'm not going to do that episode.
I'm not going to talk about that here, basically.
But let's talk about our first four weeks of Nora's life.
So this is Nora Maeve Leesley.
She was born on the 28th of July at 7.41pm, weighing a whopping £7.14 ounces.
Actually not that big, but we were told she was going to be tiny, so it came as quite a shock to me.
Now she's really tiny.
It's actually just her length.
She's just a really long gal, basically.
She's just going to be tall like her mum and dad.
She's going to be a tall queen.
Anyway, so I ended up having an emergency C-section.
Like I say, if you want me to go into that and do all that story, I'm happy we'll do it again and do a podcast of it and go into it in a little bit more detail.
That's absolutely fine.
But she did end up being in an emergency C-section.
Because, you know, she didn't fancy coming out.
She was just a little bit mad at life and didn't want to come out.
So they cut her out the sunroof.
My recovery has been absolutely amazing.
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