This man holds his little girl while she goes to sleep in his arms every single night, sometimes with tears from her, sometimes not, sometimes with tears from him. He then waits the half an hour it takes for her to go into a deep sleep and carries her upstairs into her little bed next to ours. Read more ›
Little things make me realise how much my little boy is growing up. Last night we came to bed together, he was messing about and I was being grumpy because I felt awful, I have a stinking head cold, runny… Read more ›
To celebrate Cerebral Palsy Awareness day I thought I would blog a day in our life, I’ll update this post through the day as I get chance. Today is my easiest day if all goes to plan as Willow goes… Read more ›
We’ve just come home from our second respite weekend as a family to the Children’s Hospice, Shooting Star Chase at Christopher’s. The deal is, Willow has her own room downstairs and we have family accommodation upstairs. The team look after… Read more ›
I’m lying in bed with tears streaming. My beautiful, precious Willow is snoring in her sleepform mattress in her sidecar cot next to me, to a backing track of her feeding pump getting bonus milk into her as she sleeps,… Read more ›
When you have a baby, nights can be tough. Baby wakes lots and you don’t go into that full deep sleep because you’ve got half an ear out for baby stirring for milk. After a few months everybody gets into… Read more ›
This time last year I was probably having a moan about being heavily pregnant in the heat and waddling around after an almost 2 year old. We knew there were tough times ahead with a toddler and a newborn, no… Read more ›
Our son is 32 months old today and what a day, today he told me with a beautiful smile while I was pumping that he has cows milk now, not Mummy milk. He shares our bed and we ‘pander’ to… Read more ›
I love it when chops snuggles up to Wriggles in his sleep, I can only see that this can help bonding, it certainly won’t do any harm. But go away heartburn! I could actually be sick with it right now,… Read more ›
I doubt anyone I know who doesn’t already know will read this and anyone who does is only finding out a week early. We’re having another baby! Yeyyy! I’m possibly 11 weeks pregnant but had what with hindsight was probably… Read more ›