The nights are drawing in and cozy socks are needed. Woolly jumpers, big coats and walking with little kids as they jump in piles of leaves. It is autumn and autumn is awesome. And my favourite thing about autumn is pumpkin. Pumpkins are the best and for most of my life all I have done... Continue Reading →
Today marks the end of Baby Loss Awareness Week and tonight at 7pm there is the Global Wave of Light. Eilys being ill and losing her is the hardest thing that I have ever gone through but I have been so lucky through my grief. My family and friends have allowed us to grieve in... Continue Reading →
3rd time’s a charm, right!? During my pregnancy with Evan I gave a lot of thought to how I was going to tackle breastfeeding this time round. Would I try the herbal supplements again? Would I harvest colostrum? After he was born, would I presume the issues would be the same and top up from... Continue Reading →
As I have posted before, when I was pregnant with Eilys I looked into Placenta encapsulation in order to aid with my breast milk production. After looking into it and almost buying all the stuff to do it ourselves we decided against it as it would prove to be way too faffy. This pregnancy I... Continue Reading →
I had an idea that lets be honest someone has bound to have thought of already but I am claiming it as mine. There you go I have stuck my flag in it, this is my idea and you can thank me later, ha! I was having a think about things that I thought would... Continue Reading →
This term Dylan started school. To be honest I had no idea how he would react to going to school. I wasn’t overly sure that he was ready to go to school and I worried that he would hate it. I suppose all parents worry about their child going to school. It really is the... Continue Reading →
Hi, I am Emma and I worry. I worry about all sorts of stuff and for the most part I am rational and just work out the worries in my head and continue with my day. But during my pregnancy with Evan I worried a lot about having Evan. I suppose it is totally normal... Continue Reading →
If you have read some of blog posts from the later weeks of my pregnancy I think you will see that I was getting quite impatient about meeting the newest addition to our family. I really didn’t enjoy being pregnant this time round. There was a lot of anxiety that was in no way helped... Continue Reading →
Today is 10 days since baby Evan James was born and what a lovely 10 days it has been. I wanted to write a post about his birth while it was all fresh in my mind. So here we go... Joe finished work on Friday and we met for lunch in Pizza Hut. Dylan had wanted... Continue Reading →
