Sabina Green In the week’s leading up to my due date I was asked if I would like to review the DVD Now Is Good starring Dakota Fanning as seventeen year old Tessa who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Tessa decides that she wants to make the most of her time and so compiles a … Read more
Our first night back in the hospital in the Transitional Care unit was a trial like no other. Every three hours, the alarm would sound – a stark reminder to feed Jelly Bean with expressed breast milk.
Every now and then I stumble across a meal that my fussy eater Little Bean is willing to try and actually ends up loving, pancakes are one such meal that Little Bean dared to try and fell in love with. If she has been a particularly good girl or if I want great behaviour from … Read more
Returning home from the hospital on Friday, our journey with Jelly Bean took a challenging turn. His labour had been unexpectedly swift, a story I’ll delve into another time, leaving him congested with mucus. Despite immediate skin-to-skin contact and my efforts to nurse, he seemed disinterested, spending most of his first day in a deep … Read more
Karin and I have been friends since our girls were just 6 weeks old and we attended a baby music class together. Our girls have grown up together and their friendship is still strong despite the fact that they now go to different primary schools. When Beanie Boy was born Ella was so excited, they … Read more
Despite Jelly Bean being born during the early hours of the 31st January, I was extremely saddened that his siblings didn’t get to meet him until the following day. I had given birth on the Midwife Led Unit and was told shortly afterwards that I would probably be home by lunchtime. As the day went … Read more
I am a little behind with my Project 365 so it’s time for a catch up starting with Jelly Bean’s first photograph taken on my Samsung Galaxy SII in a dark room so it’s not the best quality but nevertheless, it’s his very first photograph!!
How can it be that my little Jelly Bean is already 1 week old?! It doesn’t seem 5 minutes since I was waddling around with a huge bump, inadvertently rolling my eyes every time someone commented to me “isn’t it time you had that baby yet?”. As it turned out, Jelly Bean was only 5 … Read more
Hubby has been on holiday with us this week to spend time getting to know Jelly Bean and to help me out at home. Today we decided that we wanted to get out of the house and just go for a walk somewhere but we forgot how time consuming it can be with a newborn … Read more