Everyone talks about preparing for the baby, preparing the house and preparing the family for the baby. A mother is told how to prepare her body for labour but no one plans and prepares the body for breastfeeding.
Week one to weaning!
One week moved onto 4 weeks and we had learnt new things. reading a book about it is not the same as the reality it’s so different.
First few weeks with a new baby
The first week well where do I start. We had a very tiring week, had to take day by day hour by hour. the perseverance of breastfeeding was taking its toll and she wasn’t losing weight but we were not seeing a significant gain either.
20 weeks to birth
We reached 20 weeks quite quickly as i was ahead than i thought. This was good as usually my sickness starts to wean of by 16-20 weeks. this time round this didn’t happen. Typical me thinking i may be able to enjoy
First 20 weeks
This one was a tricky time for me as i didn’t know how many weeks i was even a estimate. The journey from contacting the surgery for a referral to the midwifes and actually having a scan was a bit dazed. It was very different to when i had the other children and because of …