Image by jewell willett via Flickr Before, nappy cakes were a rarity and seen only once and awhile, and now they’ve become so popular that everyone wants to give the mum-to-be a custom made one. With this popular trend taking off, you’ll find nappy cakes everywhere, including specialty baby gift websites, carrying every kind of theme you’d ever want from a snuggly bath time nappy cake to a colourful playtime one. However, if you are crafty, you may find it [click here to read on]
Don’t panic, I am not pregnant again! 🙂 I am just catching up and giving myself a chance to get over the trauma of childbirth before writing about it. Written on the 7th September This week I have been getting to grips with giving myself insulin injections. It is a shame that I need to take it in a morning on an empty stomach because every time I do it my stomach flips. Michael keeps saying that he wouldn’t be [click here to read on]
I am sure that most women say that they have nothing to wear most days but in my case it is actually true. Before I got pregnant I was wearing a size 8. I had a baby 5 weeks ago and, at the moment, it feels like I will never see this size again. I have maternity clothes that fit me but they look odd as I no longer have a bump. I am in desperate need of some new [click here to read on]
I love Halloween! Even before I had children I loved dressing up and carving pumpkins! My favourite costume to date is when I stuck 5kg of marshmallows onto a boiler suit to be the Marshmallow Man! 🙂 This costume was amazing but it wasn’t very practical. Having 5kg of marshmallows suspended from your shoulders becomes quite uncomfortable after awhile. I was also quite fond of my pumpkin costume. I used the lycra wrapped hairstyle from my dancing days as inspiration [click here to read on]
At the moment our nights are horrendous. We are lucky if Bow feeds every 2 hours. We are even luckier if he settles after his feed. If he feeds for 30 minutes and then settles quite quickly we get just over an hour before he needs feeding again. If we are unlucky he feeds more frequently and doesn’t settle between feeds. He is not very well at the moment. He has a cold and he is struggling to breath through [click here to read on]
Bob is a huge fan of many of the Milkshake characters! Peppa Pig has been a firm fvourite for years. I keep hoping that she will grow out of Peppa Pig soon but it doesn’t seem to be happening. At the moment she loves Paw Patrol. Her daddy is very pleased about this as he loves it too! She also enjoys Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom and she can’t get enough of Dora & Friends. She sounds like such a [click here to read on]
Don’t panic, I am not pregnant again! 🙂 I am just catching up and giving myself a chance to get over the trauma of childbirth before writing about it. 36 weeks pregnant – Our baby is the size of a romain lettuce I found information from various websites when I was putting together my fruit and veg posts. You can read more about this here. Some weeks the sites differed with which fruit or vegetable they used. I gathered all [click here to read on]
