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.
I can’t believe it’s been three months since I last wrote – where has the time gone? Well, I tell you where it’s gone: doing my L4 counselling course! Boy, it is intense, and hard work juggling all the work that goes alongside it with looking after a baby full-time. Thankfully, I am enjoying it…Continue Reading “Baby R at seven months!”
Wow, it’s been a busy couple of weeks. Good news is I’ve started my L4 counselling course. Bad news is it’s nothing like I expected it to be. The L3 course at the same place was fairly standard – theory in the first half of the evening, break, then skills practice. The L4 course is…Continue Reading “Week 19 and 20 – baby blues”
Well we continue to have fun and games with baby R’s sleep, or lack thereof. I guess this is what they call the four-month sleep regression. She’s waking up every one to two hours during the night, leaving my husband and I totally exhausted. Last night was a ‘good’ night – she woke at 11:30pm…Continue Reading “Week 18 – sleep regression central”
I’ve writing a double entry this week, as it’s been a full-on fortnight and I’ve not had chance to get my thoughts down until now. I’m currently writing this in the back of our car with Baby R on our way back from Devon where we’ve spent a long weekend with my husband’s family for…Continue Reading “Week 16 and 17 – dairy-free holiday travels”
Can you believe it’s week 15? Last week I wrote about how we’d taken Baby R to the doctor about her reflux, and she was prescribed Gaviscon. The first night she took it, she slept 8pm-5am, and then again the second night. I honestly thought we’d cracked it! But since then her sleep has been…Continue Reading “Week 15 – all going swimmingly?”
Another week, another exciting update ;-)! The positives You’ve got to look at the silver linings, so whereas this week was testy with R’s reflux (more on that later), we did make a rather good purchase on eBay. Oh hello, Graco Simple Sway! This cost me £10 from a local seller, and it is amazing….Continue Reading “Week 14 – positives and negatives”
I can’t believe that tomorrow, Baby R is three months old. It feels like this huge milestone I’ve been working towards, and now it’s almost here I don’t know what to do. I’ve said from the beginning that I wanted to start transitioning to using formula at three months because I’m going to have to…Continue Reading “Week 13 – from breast to formula?”
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’”