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Yearly Archives: 2012
The Essential One: A Brit Mums Baby Review
I cannot believe that it has already been a week since Brit Mums Live. I had such a wonderful time and learned such a lot. My reflective post is coming soon as well as heartfelt thanks to my sponsors BundleBean … Continue reading
Please Spare a Prayer
Dear Mummies Everywhere
Hold your children close tonight. I am writing this with Matilda in my arms, fear in my heart and tears in my eyes.
I am writing this with hope. We must always have hope.
I cannot believe that I am asking Edspire readers to pray once again for my dear friend, Ruth.
Mummy to two beautiful boys and two baby girl angels her brand new baby daughter is now fighting for her life.
Martha Mae Grace born at 25 weeks needs your hopes, thoughts and prayers this night.
Life is so cruel and so many precious babies are snatched from their mothers’ arms.
Please take a moment today to think of Martha Mae.
I know her Mummy will need all the help she can to find the strength she needs to face this battle again.
Dear God,
This time please let Ruth take her daughter home.
Make Martha Mae strong, embrace this beautiful baby and let her family do the same. Let them live together and love together as every family should. Please watch over Martha Mae with her angel sisters, Isla and Eden. Give the family the courage and strength they need to fight the fight and face the world together.
Amen
Please spare a prayer for Martha Mae tonight.
Learning Through Play: Water
Esther and William adore being outside and we are lucky enough to have a lovely little garden with our water table in it and some swings. Come rain or shine we play in our garden every single day. One of … Continue reading
Theraline Wynnie Nursing Pillow Review and Giveaway
And the winner is … ROBYN LOGAN! Every so often a product comes along that does so much more than it says it does. For me, in the last few weeks, it has been the Theraline Wynnie Nursing Pillow. This … Continue reading
Best Beginnings: Small Wonders DVD
Anyone who reads Edspire will know that Esther and William now 23 months were born at just 27 weeks gestation after I fell ill during my pregnancy. They were born at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent. Where for 59 … Continue reading
Baba Sling Review and Giveaway
This competition is now closed and the winner is KATHRYN PHILLIPS! I had been deliberating for a long time about how to wear Matilda. I knew that I wanted to wear her, that I would need to enable me to … Continue reading
Meal Planning Monday
This week I have decided to join in with Meal Planning Monday. I am starting to think that the reason that I keep getting ill and the reason I take so long to get better is because my diet is … Continue reading
Back on the Sidelines
After a wonderful but exhausting time at Brit Mums Live 2012 I am back at home on the sidelines of my family.
How is it possible to feel like an outsider looking in at my own family? But that is exactly how I feel.
Matilda Mae was so beautifully behaved at Brit Mums. Now we are home and she is refusing to feed and sleep meaning I cannot be with Esther and William.
And if I did try I am sure they would just ask for Daddy!
How has it come to this?
Through a combination of late pregnancy, illness and nursing a newborn I seem to be playing less and less of a role in our family life and it is breaking my heart.
Has anyone else ever felt like this?
I feel like I am missing out on so much.
At Brit Mums I had Matilda in her Baby Bjorn all day which I am happy to do at home as long as I get to have a shower first and that has not been a possibilty today. Nor has breakfast!
Where has my self confidence gone?
I need to make a plan.
I want my Mummy mojo back.
Breastfeeding Premmie Twins
This week the prompt for the Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt is Breastfeeding Beyond the First Month. I have now been breastfeeding Matilda Mae for 7 weeks and am on my second lot of antibiotics for a second violent bout … Continue reading