Injections for babies at 1 year old
Yesterday it was N’s 12/13 month jabs – boosters and his MMR. I had no worries about him having the MMR as some parents have in the past. With his second set of jabs back in March-ish time, he wasn’t…
Parenting
Everything parenting and family oriented. Milestones, our family, growing up
Questions on milk for babies
Milk for babies is a funny thing. Before you have a baby, it seems so simple and straightforward. Either you like it or you don’t. You choose your colour top, and tend to stick with that (me, I like skimmed,…
Freedom and things you take for granted
While N was at his settling in sessions at nursery and I was still not back at work, it was great to be able to do those simple things that you forget about as you’ve adapted to children’s needs. Parking….
Week 2: One born every minute…pain
The second week of One Born Every Minute & Netmums link up in conjunction with the tv show (C4 9pm Wed 11th). This week the blog link up is on pain, so here’s my take on it during N’s arrival….
Settling in at nursery
After his last settling in session yesterday, today N starts at his day nursery properly. Yesterday’s session was for 2 hours to include lunch. He did cling slightly when I went to hand him over, and was a little upset…
One born every minute – Dads
One Born Every Minute starts again on Channel 4 at 9pm this Wednesday 4th January, with the theme of dads. They’ve linked up with NetMums to get people to share their birth experiences and here’s mine with my thoughts on the…
Oh Christmas tree
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I was struggling to get agreement to put the christmas tree up…excuses given mainly revolved around “it’s dangerous with a nearly one year old”. Thankfully, after a lot of moaning and hints…
Nursery newbie
It’s now less than a month to go before N starts at day nursery as I go back to work then. I had a bit of a panic when I realised I’d not heard anything since sending off my cheque…
A-Z of baby led weaning food experiences
Food’s always a worrying thing when it comes to babies. If it’s your first, you’re probably scared of weaning and how it’ll go, then once they’re eating it’s a worry about how much or what they should be eating. I…
Flirting baby
My boy’s a flirt. Even when he’s ill (which he’s been this weekend). He loves people and has always been a smiler; whenever we’re out and about, I’ll see people smiling and talking to him across the room, and when…
Our hand foot and mouth experience with a baby
We’ve been quite lucky compared to some of my friends, in that N’s not really been ill much…a touch of diarrhoea, a couple of colds, but thankfully nothing’s really hit him too badly (touch wood this continues). But last week…
