The end of co sleeping
Harrison has always been a good sleeper, sleeping in a cot in his own bedroom from eight months old. Alex, although getting better,…
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29 Week Update
Last Tuesday, I had my 28 week appointment with the midwife. He’s measuring absolutely fine, but had some not so great news about my…
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28 Week Update
With all the excitement of Harrison starting school last week, I completely forgot to do my 27 week update. Not that there was…
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A Week at Nursery
Last Wednesday, Harrison started nursery. It’s a school nursery (or preschool as some people call it) attached to our local infant school. It…
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Coping with two under two
I’ve been planning on writing this post for a while, even though I’m no longer a mum to two under two (although will…
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26 Week Update
After last week’s horrible week of feeling like death warmed up, I can say I feel much better this week. I think the…
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Arachnophobia
As readers of my blog may know, I have kabourophobia.In that post, I also talked about the fact I’m pretty bloody scared…
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25 Week Update
So, 25 weeks!! Up until this week, other than feeling tired at times I’ve felt absolutely fine. The last ten days or so…
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24 Week Update
24 weeks is an incredibly big and important milestone in a pregnancy, and one that I am so very relieved to have got…
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A rubbish day!
I’m typing this on my phone as it’s the only internet access I have at the moment! Today has been a disaster from…
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23 Week Update
I’m a few days late posting this! I ummed and ahhed about not actually doing a post this week, because to be honest,…
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Sheldon Country Park
We are really lucky that even though we live in the middle of Birmingham, we have some beautiful parks within a few minutes…
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Cloth Nappies – Our Experience So Far…
If you’re previously read my blog posts, you will see that we have recently decided to use cloth (reusable) nappies on Alex, and…
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Alex’s Birth Story
Alex was born in October 2012, three days before his due date. Harrison was only six or seven months old when I fell…
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Harrison’s Birth Story
Harrison was born almost three weeks early in June 2011. It hadn’t been a particularly easy pregnancy. I had suspected swine flu when…
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Ash End House Farm
Yesterday, we visited Ash End House Farm, which is near Tamworth – and I can definitely recommend it as a great day out for…
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22 Weeks Update
Not a lot to write about this week. Movements have been getting bigger and bigger to the point where Graham can feel gentle…
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Kabourophobia – The Fear Of Crabs
I am easily freaked out. There are lots of things I don’t like – clowns, jellyfish, spiders, stickers (when they go furry – yuk!),…
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GUMI Sensory Adventure Blogger Event
On Saturday we went to Chesterfield for the GUMI Sensory Adventure – our first ever blogger event, hosted by the lovely people at Frank…
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Futhermuckas
Nine years ago in September, I started my teacher training degree at Newman University College. My oldest childhood friend, Chris, was doing the…
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21 Week Update
Well, we had the 20-week scan on Monday. I was incredibly nervous. Lots of us get excited about possibly finding out the sex…
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Halfway there – 20 weeks!
Not a long update this week…but we’ve reached the halfway point – 20 weeks!!
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19 week update
A day late again – but nearly at the halfway point! I’m 19 weeks now and this week, I’ve began to feel really…
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