Inspiration from Sky Blue Sea

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Today I subscribed to a new blog and on it I found an inspirational post that filled me with emotion.  I hope that you like it too and if you do why not visit SkyBlueSea for yourself and tell her about it.

Positive Friends

My friend Mary is an amazing bubbling force of energy. Occasionally she will e-mail me stuff like this.
Today waiting in my inbox was this, and it just made me smile. Sorry I don’t know where it originated, but I hope it inspires.

“Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah on her 70+ birthday.
Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older.
And, there on television, she said it was “exciting.”
Regarding body changes, she said there were many,occurring every day…like her breasts.
They seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist, first.

The audience laughed so hard they cried. She is such a simple and honest woman, with so much wisdom in her words! Maya Angelou said this:
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
“I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.”
“I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as “making a life.”
“I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.”
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”
“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
“I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.”
“I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a
friendly pat on the back.”
“I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never
forget how you made them feel.”

Makes me want to be a better person, how about you?

All I Want for Valentine's Is……

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This week it’s gift time, it is Valentine’s day after all …

Shopping time! Buy yourself a Valentine’s present.

Window shopping on the internet. What would you buy yourself for Valentine’s Day. Spend as much as you like, buy what you want.

Extra Valentine’s bonus: great minds think alike! Over at Kate Takes 5, this week’s listography is “Things I’d like for Valentine’s Day“. Write 1 post for double linky action. Love is in the air, love yourself!

This Valentine’s Day I would like …

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http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/skybluesea/product/charm_necklace

I really love this necklace and I emailed the lady to ask if I could have it with 4 letters on – J, D, E and W.  She agreed to do this and so now I am hoping that it really will appear with the Valentine’s Post!  I might even wear it for our wedding!!

Happy Valentine’s One and All!

For David – I love you because …

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I love you because …

You are beautiful

You are clever

You are thoughtful

You are strong

You have lovely arms

You make me feel safe

The most wonderful eyes

You make me honest

You amaze me

You amuse me

You make me smile

You are wilful

Purposeful

Silent and proud

You surprise me

You reassure me

You teach me new things

You remind me of old things

You make things all right

You make me want to be better than I am

I want to love you for always

I want to hold you for all time

I want to care for you

Protect you

Make you happy

Make you proud

Make you smile

Make you mine

I love you because you are you and I cannot help myself

 Happy Valentine’s Day 2011 x

Music I Want My Children to Listen To – Paul Anka

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GhostWriterMummy

When I first participated in this link up from Ghost Writer Mummy I thought it was a one off, now I have realised that it is a weekly link I am very excited and desperate to join in.  I begin my contribution with Paul Anka’s ‘Put Your Head on My Shoulder’.  This song was a favourite of mine and my sister’s when we were growing up.  Our parents always used to play it in the car and we would sing our hearts out in the back seat and act out the actions!!!!  Recently at my sister’s wedding we took to the dancefloor, just the two of us, and did the same thing again.  It was a wonderful sisterly moment, one of so many, that I will never forget.  I hope that Esther and William will have songs and moments like this one and I want to share it with them, my sister and all of you on this day. 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=489532422811&comments

Put your head on my shoulder
Hold me in your arms, baby
Squeeze me oh so tight
Show me that you love me too

Put your lips next to mine, dear
Won’t you kiss me once, baby
Just a kiss goodnight, may be
You and I will fall in love

People say that love’s a game
A game you just can’t win
If there’s a way
I’ll find it somebody
And then this fool with rush in

Put your head on my shoulder
Whisper in my ear, baby
Words I want to hear
Tell me, tell me that you love me too.

Put your head on my shoulder
Whisper in my ear, baby
Words I want to hear, baby
Put your head on my shoulder

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/paul-anka/put-your-head-on-my-shoulder.html

 

Blog Gems – Let there be Love!

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In honour of St Valentine’s day, Jen at the King and Eye has given a love theme to this week’s Blog Gems. Blog Gems is a chance to air your archives and share older posts with new readers. It’s a fortnightly link up where you get to dig out an old post related to the prompt.

I have the perfect post for today that I am very happy to share again on this special day for lovers. 

Happy St Valentine’s everybody and especially to my fiance, David x

http://nairnnicujournal.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/30-reasons-why-i-love-my-fiance/

Pop over to the linky now and help spread some love this Valentine’s Day x

I Was, I Am, I Will Be …

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I stumbled across this post today http://thesyders.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-was-i-am-i-will-be.html and decided to use it as inspiration for a post of my own.  I love the idea of thinking where I have been, where I am and where I am going to.  I have been many things in my time and so choosing the three most significant is quite difficult to do, particularly where the past is concerned.  I have been many things, not all as good as I would like.  For the purposes of this blog about parenting though I think that I should tell you about how I was a Nan and Granddad’s Girl, how I am a Mummy and I will be a wonderful wife!

Here goes …

As a young girl there was nothing I loved more than being with my Nanny and Granddad Jock, my Dad’s parents.  For my very early childhood they lived just up the road from us at 167 Grange Road, we lived at 205.  I would often spend time with them in their house and garden, and in my Granddad’s shed.  My Granddad was good at making things out of wood.  He made my sister and I a wonderful dolls’ house and he made us hobby horses too.  He also made a money box for all the cousins in which he used to save up money for us to spend on our holidays.  As an extended family we used to go to Haven or Pontins and we all had a wonderful time.  My Nan made wonderful soup and dumplings which I loved.  Every Sunday we used to go to their house for a roast dinner, the whole family and it was just great.  On Saturdays people would come to our house for tea and cards.  I remember that my Granddad used to talk to anyone and everyone whenever we were out and about.  I remember, correctly or incorrectly, that he used to take me to the high street and buy me shoes.  I remember as I got older not saying that I liked things when out with Granddad because often what I said I liked he would buy.  When we moved to Cyprus and left my Grandparents behind I was devastated.  They came to visit us at least twice a year though and they always brought pic n mix sweets that you could not buy outside of the UK.  I loved their cuddles and as I got older I adored their company.  Especially my Nan.  After Cyprus we lived again in England for a short while and I spent so much time at my Nan and Granddad’s house.  I used to play swingball in their garden and dig for treasure that Granddad had buried near the runner beans.  I used to love the smells in the shed and the greenhouse.  I can still smell them now.  After eighteen months we moved away again to Germany and again left Nan and Granddad behind.  Again though they visited us often and I cherished the time that we had.  When I was 13 my Granddad died.  I found him, in the extension, after he collapsed with his heart.  He died after or during an operation I am not sure which.  I remember being so angry with my parents because they had not let me see him in the hospital before he had died.  We stayed in England after he died until the funeral.  In my Nan’s house.  I spent all my time doing school work as I was worried about missing so much school.  I sat on a pouffe that Nan and Granddad had brought home from Cyprus.  I own that pouffe now.  It is split and losing all its stuffing but I will not throw it out.  I love it as it reminds me of them.  I also have the foldaway coffee table from their house that I did my school work on and played scrabble with my Nan on whilst eating maltesers.  Nan loved maltesers.  My Granddad died and I missed him so much.  At that time I wrote a diary and for months afterward I addressed it each day to my Granddad.  Dear Granddad Jock, it would say.  Losing my Granddad made me even closer to my Nan.  Neither of us went to his funeral.  I sat in her lap at Aunty Barbara’s house, I remember to this day.  She had been so good to me when my Mum’s Dad had died and held me while my parents were at his funeral, I wanted to hold her through Granddad’s too.  I used to love coming home from Germany to Nan.  We would watch Countdown and Home and Away together.  We would play scrabble and cards.  We would go up the corner shop to buy scratch cards.  My Nan loved her scratch cards!  I loved my Nan so much.  I remember that I used to devour her Mills and Boons books as a teenager and I remember how over the years the text size got larger and larger as she began to lose her sight.  Nan had a stroke before she died.  I remember her getting older and smaller and funny with her awkward ways.  But she was always wonderful to me and me to her.  I have never had a bad word to say about her and never could have.  I idolised my Nan and was heart broken when she died.  I still think about her all the time and I miss her everyday. I miss them both and wish with all my heart that they could see me now that I am a mother of children of my own.  I know that they would be so proud.  I was and always will be a Grandparents’ Girl.

I am a mother myself now.  I cannot believe it actually but it is true, and true twice over as I am a very lucky mother of twins.  If you know me or read this blog regularly then you will know that I find being Mummy to twins hard sometimes but I would not change it for the world and when I look at my beautiful children my heart fills with love a-new every single time.  One of the things I am most proud of is that I have breastfed Esther and William for almost 7 months now, and I have no plans to stop anytime soon.  It is one of the most precious things that I do as a Mother but it is also the one thing that means I get no time at all to be anything apart from a Mummy.  When I am tired and grumpy David will remind me that I chose to breastfeed and so really chose to be so tied to the twins, which is true but I had hoped by now that I would be able to get out long enough to pop to the gym or the shops or just have some time to get reacquainted with me.  It is a tricky situation; that one of the things that I love the most about being Mum is also the thing that exhausts me the most and can lead to me having difficult times.  I do wonder how other women feel.  I find breastfeeding very easy.  Both babies latch on well and feed efficiently, I have plenty of milk that flows freely.  With all of this going for me I still find it hard and so to have any of these things not working as it should it must make breastfeeding nigh on impossible, especially with two.  I would encourage Mummy’s to try breastfeeding as it is a wonderful experience but I would also say to not be too downhearted if it does not work for you as there are so many other magical mummy moments coming your way.  The smiles, the giggles, the firsts, the farts …  Everything and anything will be noted as a milestone or occasion of some sort as you celebrate this life that you have made and share and celebrate.  I am a Mummy and it is a wonderful thing!

I will be a loyal and loving wife.  In less than 7 months!  I will be a Henley and I just cannot wait.  Over the last four years I have come to know David and love him with all my heart.  I have fallen in love with him over and over again in the time that I have been fortunate enough to know him.  He is amazing and I am so so lucky that he is mine.  He is funny and clever, he is strong and kind, he is ambitious but homely, a loving father and my bestest friend.  I would follow him to the the ends of the earth and I would trust him with each and every one of my dreams.  He is my life and I want to be everything I can for him when I become his wife.  Mrs Jennie Henley I will be, and I cannot wait!!!

And everything I am, was, will be and can be has been leading to this one moment, the most important moment of my life when our family circle is complete.

I was, I am and I will be me, in all my guises, for all my many ways, and I know that it is as it should be and I dream of what we will go on to become x

 
 
 

Weekend Rewind – May 2010

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Today I found a new linky hosted by Life in a Pink Fibro – Weekend Rewind.

The drill is this: you dust off an old post (preferably from May last year or earlier, or featuring something about May, but you know I’ll take anything so don’t fret), you link it up below, you browse through the other links and leave a little comment love, just to be friendly. So easy. So much fun. So…

 

In May of last year I had not conceived this blog as Esther and William were safe and snug inside of me and had no plans of arriving early!  To rewind to May for you, dear Readers, I turn once again to my faithful friend, Facebook to revisit what was going on in my life in that merry month of May.  I know it included a trip to Paris!

1st May 2010

Jennie is listening to children’s songs and planning the twins’ jungle nursery!!

2nd May 2010

Jennie has had a lovely lunch with her friends.

4th May 2010

Jennie is excited that she has a scan booked for Monday and may be able to find out what flavours the babies are!!!!!

6th May 2010

Jennie will see her wee sis in 3 months!! Hooray!!

Jennie and David are going to ‘Wake Up the Zoo’ on Saturday morning. 2 hours of time in the zoo before the general public and we get to feed the giraffes and the sea lions!!! I am so excited!

8th May 2010

Jennie had the most amazing morning waking up the zoo! We fed the giraffes and met some one day old baby meerkats. We fed the sealions and David was able to stroke a tapir. A most wonderful day and for me being so close to giraffes was just one of the most amazing experiences as I just love them so much. A day I will never ever forget!

11th May

Jennie loved talking to her little sister today!

Being a teacher makes choosing names for your own children so so hard!!!

13th May

Jennie is looking forward to seeing Macbeth at The Globe on Sunday.

15th May 2010

Jennie is going to test drive a twin pram today!!!!

17th May 2010

Jennie heard the babies heartbeats today!

18th May

Jennie is getting excited about visiting Rew and Francoise in Paris!

24th May 2010

Jennie and David are home from Paris after a wonderful weekend. Thank you Rew and Francoise x x

25th May 2010

Jennie wishes she was still in Paris, playing dice in a cafe with Rew and Francoise.

26th May 2010

 19 weeks pregnant today, 19 weeks to go!

28th May

Jennie is struggling to find a dress for summer weddings for her massive and rapidly expanding twin bump!!!

It is crazy reading back through this and realising that when we thought we had another 19 weeks to go til we met our babies they were actually born just 2 months later.

I can’t wait to be pregnant again and just hope that I will enjoy a full term pregnancy this time.  There is no reason why I shouldn’t so I am keeping everything crossed.

Want to see what other people were up to in May?  Hop on over to the linky hosted by Life in a Pink Fibro

What were you doing? Rewind this weekend, relax and reflect on a month that was x

Months 3 – 6 inclusive

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Can you believe it?  5 short months ago Esther and William were still being fed by a tube and we were looking at possibly another month in SCBU to get breastfeeding established.  That was 11th September 2010, on the 21st September 2010 we came home because the babies had decided that they were ready after all and within a few short days they began to breastfeed efficiently and demonstrated clearly that they no longer needed their tubes.  Just as they had shown with conviction that they no longer needed any oxygen support.  Since those final days in hospital Esther and William have continued to grow bigger and stronger everyday.  Now they are 6.5 months old and I cannot comprehend how much they have changed and grown.  They are nothing short of amazing and I love them with all my heart.  I have decided to write a series of posts celebrating their lives so far and I am going to begin with a review of the highlights illustrated through my Facebook status updates.  Facebook is good for something. 

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the highlights of months 3 – 6 inclusive.

5th September 2010

Jennie is struggling a bit today as one of the nurses told us that the babies are really restless at night and seem to be looking for me cos I cuddle them and care for them/feed them all the day. Also they want to suck whenever they are fed and of course I am not there. They are doing so well and I just want to bring them home!

13th September

Jennie is not sure how many more nights she can leave her babies in somebody elses arms!

14th September

Jennie has had a good day! Esther is demand feeding during the day and William had his first ever bath!!!

16th September

Jennie is getting excited and scared as bringing the babies home in the not too distant future becomes a distinct possibility!!!

21st September

Jennie is home!

24th September

Jennie is very proud of her clever babies for gaining weight and impressing the health visitor with their super feeding and calm behaviour!!!

26th September

9am and I have just woken up. The babies made it through the night with 3 hourly feed rather than every hour! Progress!

30th September

Jennie feels like a milk machine today!!!

1st October

Jennie is pleased that the babies continue to gain weight albeit slowly! William is now 4lb 15oz and Esther is 4lb 4oz. No more weigh ins until the 14th October!!!

5th October

Jennie is now resigned to the fact that for the forseeable future it is feed, change, sleep or change, feed, sleep until the babies are old enough to play.

6th October

Jennie is watching her babies sleep whilst choosing music for her wedding. Life is good!

7th October

Jennie is very proud that William has graduated from Micro nappies to Premature!!! He must be gaining weight and be over 5lbs!!!

10th October

Jennie has had a lovely day with her fiance and children. We took Esther and William for their very first picnic.

14th October 2010

Jennie has just been advised by Health Visitor to postpone Esther and William’s Christening until after the cold and flu season. She says that it is just too much of a risk for them. Boo!

20th October 20/10/2010!

Today is the day that the twins were due to be born. Happy 0 Birthday Esther and William!

Jabs done and new weights recorded. Esther is 5lbs 1oz and William is 6lb 1oz! Happy 0 Birthday Babies!!

22nd October

Jennie has just walked 6 miles around the hills behind Charing with David and the babies. Ended up carrying the babies for the last two miles and pushing the empty pram!!!

24th October

Jennie can’t believe her babies are 3 months old today and should really only be 4 days!!!

26th October

Jennie seems to be always washing and sorting baby clothes!!!

29th October

Is it possible I have just had almost 3 hours sleep????

Jennie is showered, both babies are dressed, bedding changed and first lot of washing is out to dry. I have eaten breakfast and had a cup of tea! Now I am exhausted though after a twin feeding frenzy. A glimpse of what life will be like as things begin to get easier i.e. little tummies get bigger!!

30th October

Jennie is feeling so bad. After constant feeding for over 3 hours Esther is still screaming and I don’t know why. I am sure there is milk because William is feeding okay. I am going to have to give Esther a bottle of expressed milk because I just do not know what else to do and there is no one to help me.

Jennie would like to thank everyone who answered her desperate cries in the middle of the night. We got through it, as you all knew we would and amazingly I did not use the bottle after all. I just carried on feeding until she finally went to sleep. It is so hard especially in the early hours but I know it is worth it and I do love my children more than all the world. Thank you everyone x

1st November 2010

Today we start a proper bedtime routine. 6pm bath, 6.30pm feed and story, 7.30pm bed in cot and not to be picked up or taken downstairs. We will see if it can be done.

Crikey! Bathed and in bed by 7. William woke at 8 for food and Esther sleeps on. A positive first attempt.

2nd November

Jennie’s babies are being very cute this morning and are showing off the fact that they can lift their heads when lying on me on their tummies! Clever babies!!

Jennie just woke up from a nap to find William curled up next to her watching her sleep, though think he was fixed more on my chest than my face wondering how we was going to get to where he wanted to be!!

Jennie is very proud that her babies have done it again. Bath then bed for an hour, another feed then bed for 2 hours and now another feed before seeing how far we get through the night!!! Making progress – mini steps!

5th November

Jennie has had two Baileys hot chocolates whilst watching reruns of Whose Line Is It Anyway with David and the babies. A lovely end to a good good day. Now the feeding frenzy begins …

7th November

Jennie has had nearly 7 hours sleep in one night! Not all in one go, but all in one night is progress enough for now. Well done Esther and William x

9th November

Christmas has come early for the Charing Henleys! Esther and William love listening to me sing them carols especially Silent Night. Hooray for Christmas!

15th November

Jennie and David are very proud parents as William just smiled at them whilst in the bath! After a grumpy feeding frenzy of an afternoon, draining his own milk and Esther’s!! He rewarded us with a wonderful first proper smile!!!!!!!!!!

17th November

Jennie is back from hospital with Esther and William. Esther now weighs 3.2kg or 7lb 1oz and William is a whopping 3.57kg or 1oz off 8lbs!!! Well done little babies!!

20th November

Well done Babies! Asleep well before midnight with feeds at 2.45 and 5.45, and William slept in his cot all night. We are making progress!!!

22nd November

Jennie is falling in love with her children all over again as they keep smiling at her and are starting to giggle!!! So so sweet! And I am so proud that David and I have done something so wonderful and made children so beautiful. I don’t think there can be a better feeling than this!

29th November

Jennie is very pleased that William now weighs 8lb 12oz and Esther is 7lb 11oz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They need new clothes – AGAIN!

30th November

Jennie has had 4 hours sleep in a row!

2nd December

Jennie is dancing with William to Christmas music and watching the blizzard outside. Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!

3rd December

Jennie is feeling so much love for her son this morning. I washed his play gym so has been away for two days, brought it back out this morning and William is grinning and cooing and babbling and just so excited to see it and be in it again. Great for him and such a special feeling for Mummy too x

4th December

Jennie finally caught Esther and William smiling on camera!!!

9th December

Jennie is very proud that William now weighs 9lb 5ozs and Esther weighs 8lb 3ozs! Hurrah! My little fatsos!!!!

15th December

Jennie is very pleased that her little lovelies are still piling on the weight. William is now 9lb 9oz and Esther is 8lb 5oz. Well done little ones!

18th December

Jennie has decided that tomorrow will be the day when we start to use the expressed milk from the freezer. William and Esther no longer seem to like feeding together and so after the bath each day one baby will breastfeed with Mum and the other will have a bottle with Daddy. Think it will be good for Daddy too.

19th December

Jennie was not prepared to feel so sad watching Esther have her first bottle!?!

21st December

Jennie is very proud of her oldest but smallest child who has just slept through the night from 11.30pm til 6.30am!!! Well done Esther, you really are a little Star!

23rd December

Jennie has sorted the washing while Esther has her second bottle with her Daddy. William would not take a bottle! Will try again tomorrow. Esther is so much more laid back than William about all things, so different from when they were in hospital. Christmas tomorrow and I am a Mummy!

24th December

Merry Christmas Everyone! David and I are settling in for our first Christmas as parents. Have already watched The Santa Clause and read The Night Before Christmas. We have made the babies Jumperoo and are about to wrap the final presents for one another. It really is a wonderful life!

28th December

Jennie has just cried her eyes out leaving a wired, overtired William to cry himself to sleep for a total of 4 minutes … but it worked and he seems so peaceful now. Worse for Mummy I think!

29th December

Jennie is amazed that Esther just slept from 5pm to 3am!!! What a super sleeper!

30th December

Jennie is very proud that William is now a roller. He can roll from his tummy onto his back!

31st December

Jennie is a little worried that Esther must be starving. She slept for 10 hours over night and has slept at least 4 hours this morning too. She wakes, has a little feed and is then straight back to sleep!

31st December 2010

Without fail every new year I feel emotional and this year is no exception. I am staying home with all I need in the world, David, Esther and William. What a year 2010 has been for us and with so much more to come in 2011. Now I know what happiness is, it has been a long time coming but I really do feel I am the luckiest girl in all the world! Happy New Year everyone x

1st January

Jennie is excited because this year she becomes a Henley!

2nd January 2010

Jennie is bored of cold and flu season now and wants to be able to spend some time with her family and friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6th January

Jennie thinks William must be having a growth spurt!!

Jennie can’t believe she is back to feeding every two hours all through the night!! Thought it was one bad night but this have been at least the third, possibly the fourth!!

7th January

Esther has slept through the night!!! 10pm til 6.15am! William every 2 hours like clockwork though.

Jennie is writing everything down!! Today to see if any patterns are forming with my beautiful babies I am going to write everything down. I am going to do this until David returns from BETT and then we will decide on a routine!  At the moment we are struggling a bit as they are so different in their needs and development, also getting confused with actual and corrected age so writing it all down is going to be a starting point from which we will go on. Again! I am feeling positive about the world today. Feeling positive is good!

Jennie has just put Esther in a dress for the first time and is not sure that she or I like it very much. She is just too small for proper clothes!

Jennie thinks William is teething!!! Actually Michele thinks William is teething and she is more of an expert than me!! He is really clingy, dribbly, a bit hot with red cheeks, one side redder and hotter than the other. Also seems to like eating his hands.

8th January

Jennie loves the cute noises that Esther has started to make. I love her and William so much!!

10th January

http://thismummyloves.blogspot.com/2011/01/weaning-trials-and-tribulations-of.html
To wean or not to wean – Esther and William will be 6 months on the 24th Jan. William is feeding more and more often – at least every 2 hours round the clock!
I wonder if weaning would help?

12th January

Jennie is very proud that William now weighs 11lb 2oz and Esther a very petite 9lbs!

13th January

Jennie is not impressed that Esther thinks 4am is getting up time!!!

Jennie loved taking Esther and William to watch the tropical fish at the the garden centre with Granny and they enjoyed it too! A lovely trip out and such well behaved babies!

15th January

Jennie has fed at 12, 12.50 and now 1.50. I do hope this pattern will not continue all night!!! Guess what it did! Every hour onthe hour til we finally got up at 6.30!!!!

Jennie is loving how much Esther and William are beginning to enjoy books!

16th January

Jennie has just given William his first taste of baby rice. He seemed to quite like it! One week of baby rice ahead and then proper puree weaning! Glad a decision has been made! I have a busy week ahead making purees!

18th January

Jennie is exhausted and wishes that Esther would just go to the toilet!! 7 days and counting!

20th January

Jennie has been to GP with Esther and now has some lactulose to try and get things moving!

22nd January

Jennie wants to thank everyone for their advice on Esther’s poo situation – we are still waiting! I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts, tips or tricks on getting William to take a bottle??? He is not at all keen and I am going to have a spa day as soon as we pass this last obstacle! Esther guzzles her milk from a bottle but William just screams!

24th January

Jennie can’t believe that Esther and William are 6 mths old today! 6 months ago we had just seen them for the first time in their incubators at NICU weighing 2lb 4oz and 2lb 11oz. We were peering through condensation as their incubators were kept humid to protect their precious born too soon skin. We have come so far!

We really have come so far and I am so so proud and so excited about what the next 3 months might bring, and the next and the next …

What a wonderful life, being a Mummy, with all the ups and downs and sleepless nights, I would not swap this for all the world!!!

Not for all the world x