In May 2020, I agave birth to a baby girl after three fresh IVF cycles, and one frozen, over two years. These are my experiences as a first time mom.
We’ve now reached the 12 week mark with Baby R and I can’t believe how quickly it’s gone. She’s changed so much since she came back from the hospital in mid-May. At first, she looked a carbon copy of my husband, and everyone said the same. It actually really annoyed me at the time, as…Continue Reading “12 weeks – highs and lows”
An explanation at last Another week, another new learning curve. This time it’s reflux. Now Baby R has been spitting up after her feeds for a long while now – it’s not unusual for small ones to do so. But I’ve noticed over the past few days that it seems to be getting worse in…Continue Reading “Week 11 – reflux time”
Baby R is now 10 weeks old, and I’m starting to feel a bit more of my old self. Only tiny flashes of her, but glimpses of the person I was pre-baby none the less. The main thing for me was getting my hair done yesterday. I went to the hairdressers and had two and…Continue Reading “Week 10 – feeling a bit more ‘me’”
Well, I’m not going to lie – I am feeling quite smug. I feel like I’m nailing motherhood (haha, I know, pride comes before a fall and all that) or at least getting to grips with it a bit more. Everyone says it gets easier after six to eight weeks, and at the moment I…Continue Reading “Week nine – she sleeps!”
I can’t believe eight weeks have passed since Baby R entered the world. I’d like to say the previous week has got easier since my ‘On the turn’ post from week seven. And I suppose, in a way, it has. Baby R is definitely managing more naps in the day, albeit short ones. But a…Continue Reading “Week eight – finding a routine”
Looking back on week six, with Ruby now a seven week year-old, I feel like we’re slowly turning a corner. Don’t get me wrong: this week has been super tough (like last week and all the weeks before!) and included one of her worst night’s sleep to date. For at least a couple of days,…Continue Reading “Week seven – on the turn?”
Baby R is now six weeks’ old. Week five has just gone by in a blur and I don’t quite know where the time is going. Days merge into one another and I have no concept of what day it is or what’s going on in the world. My life comprises my house, the bed,…Continue Reading “The six-week milestone”
Baby R is five weeks old today, and looking back on week four, I realise it’s been a week of firsts. There have been the typical highs (first smiles) and lows (in particular, R waking up at 1:45am and not properly going to sleep until the following night), but it feels like we’ve made more…Continue Reading “Five weeks in – a week of firsts”
Today is Baby R’s four week birthday – our one month newborn baby 🙂 – and what a four weeks it’s been. The ongoing breastfeeding saga This week in particularly has been super tough. We went a few days where I decided not to give Baby R expressed milk top-ups from the Haakaa manual breast…Continue Reading “Baby R’s four weeks today!”
I think I’ve had one day this week where I didn’t cry – that was a good day. The rest have either started or ended in tears, usually when my husband leaves or comes back from work. Lucky him! I never, ever thought having a baby would be this emotional – spoiler: it is. And…Continue Reading “Week three – it’s been emotional”