When you have your first (or second… oh my, witness the cuteness) baby you are completely inundated with presents. Birth is such a special time and this always resonates massively with pretty much every single person who knows you – you…
When the Duchess of Cambridge stepped out of the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s hospital yesterday afternoon it wasn’t just the baby the world was interested in seeing. Let’s be honest, a newborn baby is a newborn baby; most of…
When reading the comments on my Newborn Essentials post from last week I was amazed at how many things I had forgotten. Though in all honesty, if we remembered every single part of the ‘special’ newborn time we would all be one-child…
A little while ago I had a comment from someone called Natasha, asking me if I would mind posting about what my newborn essentials are. Now, I pretty much NEVER get asked to post about things, so I was…
Pretty much everything to do with breastfeeding: the pain, the cracked nipples, how the right one leaks when feeding from the left and vice versa… The first time around I remember being pretty shocked that nobody had told me what…
As Elfie comes close to celebrating her first birthday I thought it would be nice to look back at the time she first came into our lives. Here were my thoughts one week in to motherhood, on July 14th 2010:…