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037/365-2103 – Home
Continue ReadingWaking up at home this morning was lovely, I had missed how Little Bean and Beanie Boy would wake me up each morning with a kiss and a cuddle. This morning they were so excited to have us home and wanted to give their baby brother a big kiss and cuddle too. Look at how […]
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036/365-2013 – Transitional Care/Coming Home
Continue ReadingI woke up this morning feeling much more human than yesterday. We had a really good night, near perfect in fact. Jelly Bean woke up every 3 hours for a feed like clockwork and because I wasn’t expressing I was able to get straight off to sleep as soon as he had finished feeding which […]
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035/365-2013 – Transitional Care Day 2
Continue ReadingOur first night back in hospital was beyond tough, I had been told to set an alarm to feed him expressed breast milk every 3 hours throughout the night. What this meant was giving him the bottle, winding him, then expressing milk ready for the next feed. Sounds quite simple really but in reality, he […]
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034/365-2013 – Transitional Care
Continue ReadingAfter coming home from hospital on the Friday things hadn’t been going so well with Jelly Bean. Labour had been really quick (more about that in a post to come) and as a result he was full of mucus. Despite having skin to skin contact immediately and trying to get him to nurse he wasn’t […]
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033/365-2013 – When Jelly Bean met Ella
Continue ReadingKarin 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 […]
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032/365-2013 – First cuddles for Curly and the Beans
Continue ReadingDespite 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 […]
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031/365-2013 – Jelly Bean’s First Photograph
Continue ReadingI 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!!
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038/365-2013 – Jelly Bean’s first outing
Continue ReadingHubby 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 […]
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030/365-2013 – Looking after Mummy
Continue ReadingNo i am not a slave driver to my tiddlers, Beanie Boy is always so eager to make me happy that he is a really helpful little boy. Since my bump has got to the stage where i struggle to get my shoes on and off, Beanie Boy has made it his job to help […]
