Ben is one month old now and the enormous stress of the early days is lifting. The relief of the changes in him after he reached term was enormous. He’s still a very snoozy, and occasionally twitchy, baby but he’s awake gradually more and more and when he is, he’s alert and lovely. In the […]
Older
Ben is 11 days old. He is older than his big brother. It just is not right for that to happen when he is just so small. He is so loved, so part of us and I cannot believe that 11 days after Freddie’s birth I was sat at home, with aching, empty arms and […]
Breastfeeding – 6 babies, six different experiences.
When I was pregnant this time, I said to someone in a fairly joking fashion that I had very few new experiences left; birth by a roadside, on my bathroom floor or by forceps being three of the only obstetric things left on my to (not) do list that I could think of. I also […]
Becoming normal
Yesterday wasn’t brilliantly normal, as I noticed with the unerring timing of it being just as a friend arrived, that Ben had a crop of mouth ulcers on his bottom lip. I’d never seen anything like it, panicked and had to take him in to the ward to be checked, as my brain cycled through […]
Baby Magic
If you found this as a home ed blog and are looking for posts on maths, you should probably move along for a few days. We are all loved up on babies and likely to be so for a while 😆 36 hours at home has done much to restore me. I feel like my […]
Meeting the family
We are loving getting to know this little boy. 6th time in and our eyes are opened all over again to what a miracle it is to see a baby breathe and be whole and live. I don’t think the full reality has sunk in yet for me, but it is beginning to. I’m just […]
We got male :)
Baby boy, pink, alive and in our arms 🙂 Marmite made an arrival today, having decided to show it was time to leave the premises. A very lovely c/s which turned out to be a very right decision. He’s 6lb4 and snoozing in my arms 🙂 Benedict James George.
The Puddlechicks and allergies.
When people list protection from allergies as one of the many benefits of breast feeding, you should not mistake my derisive snort as being one which dismisses breast feeding in general. I am a passionate breastfeeding supporter, though I have done so with mixed success. It is just that, in this particular house, my children […]
Christmas Cheer
For some reason, I’m finding Christmas more of a struggle this year than I did last year. I’m not sure why, nor is it really from the perspective of ever last element of Christmas grating on grief like a raw and rubbing wound. This Christmas has some hope in it, which most certainly helps a […]
Unrecognisable to myself
I don’t know how old I was when I saw the film Philadelphia; I saw it at the cinema, with my friend who had a close family friend dying of AIDS at the time, contracted while working in Africa before anyone knew to be wary. We were teenagers. I don’t think I’ve seen the film […]
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