Raw vulnerable and magic It feels like a privilege to share what the last seventy two hours have looked like and to finally introduce you to our perfect daughter Coco Joan Walsh, delivered by instrumental delivery (forceps) 💛 We have felt so supported and held by so many of you during this journey and I wanted to honour that by sharing the real story in real time. It felt a little too detailed and personal to write here so the full birth story is in the link in my bio for anyone who wants to read. Off to Birthcare tonight as a little family for some healing and learning. @birthcareauckland @birthcarenz Thank you for your continued love and support. And thank you to @libbyjeanchallis from @nosyparker__ who not only held my hand emotionally all day but was there to capture the best and biggest day of my life 💛 We think she is just perfect. x #birthstory #newborn #motherhood #rawmotherhood #postpartum #birthjourney #newbaby #babygirl #cocowalsh #family #fourthtrimester #honestmotherhood #magicmoments #birthcare #newparents
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Happy due date our precious daughter. Thank you for coming a little early so we had these past few days extra with you earth side. I still can’t stop crying when I look at you. My heart has exploded and now feels like it lives entirely outside my body and in you! Thank you @ayshandhamish for capturing us raw and healing in this way 💓 I can’t believe I am a mum, the best feeling and most vulnerable I have ever felt. What a treat X
Celebrating one week of Coco! 🤎 A little update from Kim ‘cries a lot’ Crossman haha First note has to be a massive thank you to the team at Birthcare for walking through the first days of motherhood with me. I was vulnerable, sore, elated, confused, joyful, bleeding, laughing, crying, frustrated and exposed. They held my hand, hugged me, taught us how to feed through complications and manage my pain and they did it with grace, education and care I could not have anticipated I needed. Never telling me what to do, just helping me learn variations when things weren’t working and giving me space to try for myself. The nurture I needed to care for my baby, especially after my own recovery journey from a 3a tear and episiotomy. The food was exceptional, the education and access to specialized support were incredible. For me the physical therapist and lactation specialist were so key, along with the amazing midwives. Claire joining us every 3 hours overnight to help, and Anne crying with me when I pumped 20 mls of milk on my own, to mention a few. Second is to my tribe. My friends, family and online family who have shown up physically or in the DMs sharing their journeys with milk supply and nourishing baby. I’m not the first woman to be in awe of women after birth, but this week I’m seeing it differently. Feeling so seen and supported, wrapped in some kind of collective armor from generous people around me and online who have walked this path before. Third is to our daughter. It’s been wild experiencing such little control of my emotions, like another chapter of life when I was unwell, where my emotions were driving the car. But this is different. It’s all good, sentimental things. Time feels instantly more precious, followed by the pressure to both live in and analyze each moment. She’s already teaching us so much and she’s only been outside me physically for a week. And to Cathy, my postpartum midwife with Origins for helping me transition home and through my feeding journey, and Ayeesha who came to shoot Coco and I in our raw, current environment so I don’t blink and miss this moment when my body and baby are fresh and new and different. Here’s to week two 💛
Having a wee cry this morning. Shocking I know. But not sad tears. I remember this exact morning a year ago after my low AMH diagnosis. I was too scared to even verbalise my real hopes for the year, worried that saying them out loud might somehow make them impossible. This morning I got to hold my baby in my arms. The most perfect little human on the planet. I feel completely overwhelmed with gratitude. Having not only my immediate family here, but also my real dad and my step mum in Pauanui, mucking in and helping us through Coco’s first few weeks of life, honestly feels like a pipe dream that has somehow magically come true. And to all of you, my online family, who have quite literally poured so much love into me. We truly would not be here experiencing this moment without the advice, the tips, the generosity and the care that has come our way. I do not take any of it for granted. Thank you. Truly. And to those of you who are where I was last year, not knowing if this journey will ever eventuate, I am sending you so much love. I know your pain. I see you. And I hope this year brings new energy and joy into your lives too. x
Having a wee cry this morning. Shocking I know. But not sad tears. I remember this exact morning a year ago after my low AMH diagnosis. I was too scared to even verbalise my real hopes for the year, worried that saying them out loud might somehow make them impossible. This morning I got to hold my baby in my arms. The most perfect little human on the planet. I feel completely overwhelmed with gratitude. Having not only my immediate family here, but also my real dad and my step mum in Pauanui, mucking in and helping us through Coco’s first few weeks of life, honestly feels like a pipe dream that has somehow magically come true. And to all of you, my online family, who have quite literally poured so much love into me. We truly would not be here experiencing this moment without the advice, the tips, the generosity and the care that has come our way. I do not take any of it for granted. Thank you. Truly. And to those of you who are where I was last year, not knowing if this journey will ever eventuate, I am sending you so much love. I know your pain. I see you. And I hope this year brings new energy and joy into your lives too. x
Our little girl Coco Joan Walsh, born on 6-12-25 Very happy Mum and Dad. 🩷
Our little girl Coco Joan Walsh, born on 6-12-25 Very happy Mum and Dad. 🩷
Our little girl Coco Joan Walsh, born on 6-12-25 Very happy Mum and Dad. 🩷
Our little girl Coco Joan Walsh, born on 6-12-25 Very happy Mum and Dad. 🩷
The first two weeks of motherhood have been nothing like I imagined and everything I needed to experience. From a birth that was a tad spicy and perfect to recovery humbling me in ways I never saw coming. From confidence wobbling to being held up by nurses, midwives, family, friends and other mothers. From spirals to softness and learning how much support really matters. I wrote honestly about the tears the laughs the dignity loss the rebuilding of trust in my body and instincts and what it has looked like navigating feeding recovery and bringing in my milk a little later than expected. If you are in it have been in it or might one day walk this path I hope this weeks blog makes you feel less alone. I would also love your wisdom. If you have any tips tricks or things that helped your milk supply please send them my way. I am so grateful for every message and suggestion. I feel like we are all raising Coco and that warms my heart. Link in bio to read is much more detail 🤍 @ #motherhood #postpartum #postpartummonth #newmum #newbornlife
Coco’s first christmas 🎄 A very Merry Christmas to you all from our family to yours. A special thank you to everyone who poured into our lives this year and helped share their journeys, tips, tricks, advice or encouragement. It’s because of this village we are parents this Xmas 💛🎁 X
Life is about fun, or at least that is how I want to remember it. I saw this on Instagram and immediately knew Merry Wigmas was joining our family traditions, complete with wigs, laughter and even a Marge Simpson wig! We nailed it. What I love about traditions is how easily they can begin. Just a moment that makes people laugh and somehow becomes a thing you do again next year. What are your family traditions? @kimcrossman and I are keen to know. We were thinking we need to add a “no where to wear it” party into our calendars this year. Merry Christmas, I hope you had a good one.
Operation fix my smile. I am genuinely stoked with how many people are invested in my straight teeth journey. Since I am about to give birth and have a few weeks without filming, I figured this was the perfect time to add one more thing to the mix. I have been wanting to invest in my teeth for a while and during pregnancy they have shifted even more, so I decided it was time and I could not be more excited. I am working with Dr Keith Harper at Lumino in Auckland Central and the process has been so streamlined and enjoyable. I had my attachments put on yesterday and I have now completed my first 24 hours with the clear aligners in. Tom did not even notice which made me laugh, so anyone on the fence about how visible they are, no need to worry! If you have any questions about the process, let me know. At this stage I am looking at a three month treatment plan which lines up perfectly with a film I am shooting in February. From the outside my teeth might not look too problematic but there has been a lot of recent movement and some overcrowding starting to develop. I have been noticing it more and more on camera and my tongue will not leave it alone. #ClearAligners #TeethJourney #SmileJourney #InvisalignLife #PregnancyJourney #ActorLife #OnSetLife #TeethTransformation #ConfidenceJourney #SelfCareRoutine #DrKeithHarper #HealthySmile #FilmPrep #BehindTheScenes #StraightTeethJourney
Season finales are supposed to tie things up neatly… yeah, nah. Not our style at The Powerhouse Diaries. We’re ending Season 2 with a BANG, joined by a woman who refuses to be neat, small, palatable or predictable (and we’re so here for it). Because behind the Kiwi-sweetheart storyline everyone thinks they know… there’s a whole other Kimberley. The one who builds her life on big swings, bigger feelings and zero apology. The one who treats ambition like oxygen. The one who can hold chaos in one hand and compassion in the other without flinching. And that’s the crux. The world’s been trying to categorise her for two decades. Cute. Talented. Sunshine. But the woman sitting across from me? A disciplined dreamer. A brilliant mess. A deeply feeling human who refuses to dim. Because you don’t get a life this big by being reasonable. You get it by choosing yourself again and again…even when your industry, your culture, or your own fucking brain would prefer you play small. This finale is…a lot. Tender. Wild. Unhinged in the most healing way. If you’ve been craving a permission slip to want more -and feel more- this one’s yours. Season 2 ends with @kimcrossman and honestly… what a way to close the chapter. We’re taking a well-earned summer break, but don’t you worry… we’ll be back louder, bolder, more real and, as always, slightly unhinged. Season 3 is going bigger, darker, funnier, deeper and far more disruptive. Because it’s time. Time to stop playing a game never designed for us. Time to stop subscribing to tidy, filtered versions of ourselves. Time to stop having the same shallow conversations about business and success. We can’t change what we’re too afraid to talk about. So let’s make some fucking noise! Got a story the world needs to hear? Apply for Season 3 via the thingy in the thingy and as always 🎧 Ffnd the finale where you get your daily podcast fix; Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or via the 🔗 in BI0 With love & margaritas, Team Powerhouse Diaries
