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Half term was mainly brought to us by….

February 20, 2012 by

PR parcels. 😆 oh, with added Hama, fimo and junk modelling, which means no great change here 🙂 I had every intention of a good half term as I really wanted to make the most of Fran being off school but I was probably being over optimistic in all sorts of ways. However, in the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: build a bear, build a bear fun pack, build a bear online, cutey bracelet, easy veg snacks for kids, family diary, journal 10, journal10, pandora style bracelets, st patrick day craft, st patricks day hate, sweetcorn bites, ten year diary

How times change.

February 19, 2012 by

We are now into the 4th year since Max left being employed by someone other than us and the fifth year since he worked full time. I feel like, even without all the added complications of the tragedy that then befell us, I’m only really properly recovered from 5 years of trying to be a […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Merrily Empire, Uncategorized Tagged With: home educating while working, life work balance, running a small business, taking redundancy

Craft plans from my sofa.

February 10, 2012 by

One thing you don’t really get to do when you have 3 other children under 6 and a husband who needs to be back at work 6 days after you leave hospital with your low iron levels and your newly soft furnished mind, is babymoon. Life after Josie was born was more an exercise in […]

Filed Under: Knitting & Sewing, Uncategorized Tagged With: adriafil wool, crafts on my sofa, felted crochet, felted knitting, home made soft furnishings, knitted cushion covers, knitting, sofa scatter cushions, sofa time

Older

February 7, 2012 by

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 […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Thinking Tagged With: child loss, grief, rainbow baby, subsequent child after infant loss, when a child dies

Breastfeeding – 6 babies, six different experiences.

February 7, 2012 by

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 […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life, Thinking Tagged With: breast feeding for high palate, breast milk for cleft babies, breastfeeding, breastfeeding early babies, breastfeeding experiences, easy breast feeding, expressing for scbu babies, extended breastfeeding, helping sleepy babies to feed, jaundice, s

Second

February 6, 2012 by

Second son. Second chance. Second family. We’ve been luckier than anyone has any right to be. Lucky is a strange word to apply to a family who lose a child. Watching Ben uncurl – unfurl – is like having the clouds stripped from the earth and seeing all the beauty and imperfections of the world […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Writing Tagged With: child loss, grief, infant loss, second, sleep is for the weak, writing workshop

Finished it Friday: Ben's hats.

February 4, 2012 by

Last week I partook of Finished it Friday a couple of days early without knowing that by Friday my major project of the day would actually be a brand new baby, who arrived 3 weeks early. After finishing his Blanket, I made him a coming home hat, using a really easy baby hat pattern I […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: baby boy hat, easy baby knitting, easy knitted baby hat, finished it friday, impossibly cute baby boy, rainbow knitting

Becoming normal

February 4, 2012 by

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 […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Grief Tagged With: 37 week babies, birth after loss, feeding to clear jaundice, jaundice in young babies, mouth ulcers in babies

Baby Magic

February 1, 2012 by

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 […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Freddie, Grief Tagged With: adjusting to life with a new baby after neonatal death, babies after loss, baby benedict, life at home with a new baby

Home

January 31, 2012 by

We are home. Carrying Benedict out of the hospital was up there with the two most emotional walks of my life, quite literally walking in the opposite direction down a corridor to my only ever walk with Freddie. With my back to the door of that room. Going home. I don’t think either of us […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Pregnancy After Loss Tagged With: bring home a baby, carrying a baby out of hospital after loss, family life, grief, infant loss, new baby after infant loss

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