Blog — family

Four Weeks ::

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I cannot believe how quickly the past four weeks have gone by. I'm trying my best to cling on to every moment with my tiny baby, but it doesn't seem to stop time flying by much too quickly.


I never would have imagined life with a newborn baby could be this easy, my previous experience of being the mother to a newborn taught me so much so quickly. Mostly how little sleep you can actually survive on...

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Weekending ::

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This past weekend, Effie met her Grandad (on my side) for the first time and Milo acquired said Grandad's childhood train track.  I think you can probably guess which of those things Milo would declare the most exciting.


I hadn't seen my Dad and his wife since the summer holidays, so it was lovely to see them and have Effie meet yet more of her family. It's been such a joy having all these people...

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Weekending ::

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We had a lovely weekend, trying to get out and make the most of the last couple of days of sunshine before today's storms took over.
Effie is now 2 weeks old, I'm feeling completely recovered, we're pretty settled into our new life and I'm happy enough with feeding to brave doing it outside the comfort of our home, slowly going mad inside the same 4 walls I'm now so eager to get out and about! So...

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This Week ::

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A round up of some of my favourite moments from my Instagram this week ::


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Introducing ::

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2 weeks ago today, this little beauty entered our lives, quickly and in a way I'm still quite surprised and proud of.
It turned out to be (though induced) the natural birth I was hoping for.  
She is perfect, she is calm, easy going and has fitted into our lives so easily it's hard to imagine a time she wasn't here with us.
Johnny has returned to work today, I can't imagine how I'm going to cope...

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