WEANING – I am so so so excited !!! 

The day has come to start my little precious baby on solid food 😁 she will be only 5 months old but she is definitely more than ready for it (her mummy as well 😊). I know that the advice is to wait till 6 months but we will try and see how Chloe react to it. On the paper she is ready : she holds herself very well,she always stares at our food and tries  to grab it. 

  

 We decided to start on baby rice as it’s the most similar to milk and shouldn’t be too shocking for Chloe 🙂 

I was like a little kid in a sweet shop when u was buying baby rice and baby porridge! I am so excited about it ! 

 You need to make sure you choos a time when she is awake and happie so that’s what we did. Straight after getting up we played a little bit and then started on outr first meal. I also have given Chloe her milk first and then the baby rice. 

All of the cameras ready, camcorder in hand and off we went 

  

 I was expecting lots of spitting, food everywhere, mess … Non of it happened ! Chloe loved it ! She was opening her mouth and trying her best to eat of the spoon ! She ate almost everything !!! 

I was so proud of her and so surprised ! She obviously has a apettite after her mum 😊 it’s pretty incredible seeing her eating something else than my milk . I still cannot believe how well she did !!!

  Weaning is really exciting, but I also find it quite confusing. When to start on vegetables and fruits, when on meat?how much milk to give? When to move from one meal to two? What about drinking wather ? I will need to seat and revise very carefully:-) 

For now though I am looking forward to tomorrow 😁 we will be trying baby porridge 😊

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM ??!! No it’s only a baby

Does your baby bang her/his legs with all the power she/he has ????

How does Chloe let me know that she is up, or that she needs feed in the middle of the night? By lifting her bum and legs up and banging it on the bottom of her crib. It is so loud is crazy. The first time she did it I was downstairs and I thought that I had an elephant in the bedroom !!!!!! How do you explain to 4 months old not to it because she can brake her leg ??!!! 

LETS PLAY A GAME : what is the reason behind crying ???  

Just when I thought that things (I mean nights) are getting better …. they go bad again or even worst …. Welcome to Mums world 😊

What a horrific night and evening we had ! Chloe just kept waking up every few hours crying. I even have taken her to our bed in the middle of the night hoping that this would help …. But no ….

On top of not sleeping and worrying you start playing the famus and most hated game : WHAT IS THE REASON BEHIND IT ? 

Nappy ? No 

Hungry ? No

Teething ? 

In pain? 

Had a nightmare ?

Sore throat ?

Belly hurts? 

Didn’t poo today can this be a problem?

And we can go on like that for good hour or so …. It frustrates the hell out of me !!!! I don’t mind not sleeping but I hate not knowing !!!!!!

Ps. Yes she was up at 6am smiling like crazy 🙂 I looked crazy due to the lack of sleep  

BREASTFEEDING AN EINSTEIN 

Breastfeeding an Einstein 

One of the main stories on the news few days ago was about new benefit of breastfeeding. Aparently it has been proven that  breastfeed babies stay in school for longer and get better jobs . Sounds great on top of all of the benefits that we know of  … But it sounds great only if you are breastfeeding. What if you couldn’t? Or can’t ?  This kind of news would  just make you feel bad and guilty  … Should we be speaking loudly about it or not? What do you think ? 

I have been very lucky. Chloe has been born with my huge appetite which meant that she just latched on to my nipple and didn’t want to let go 😁 . It was very easy but I know how hard it is for some mums and the hell they go through when they can’t do it. 

I do not agree with mums who choose not to do it (I am not judging you)  I also don’t agree with advertising how amazing breastfeeding is as we all already know it. We should concentrate on how to help mums who want to breastfeed but can’t … 

SLEEPING THROUGHT THE NIGHT (I wish) … ALMOST !!!!! 

We have a break through !!!!!! 



With the most enormous smile on my face I can announce that for the fist time ever Chloe has got up only 1 for her milk !!!!!!! Only 1 !!!!! After getting up every 2 hours for a feed then every 4 hours and then at 4 months going back to getting up every 2 hours we FINALY have 1 feed only ( every 6 hours ) ! I am so happy and so proud of Chloe !!!! Hopeful it means that we are only steps away from sleeping through the whole night ?….

…. If I had to get up only once to feed …Why am I so tired ???!!!! 😊

SOCKS ON 😉



 As you can see on the photo : socks are on ! And they are not going anywhere ! 

How many times a day do you put the sock back on ? I used to do it 10-15 times a day . How many sock did you loose ? Quite a few Not any more , thanks to some genius who designed sock ons



Brillant product !  As it comes in lots of colours I can match it to the socks that Chloe will be wearing 😁Trully recomend and thank you to whoever invented it 😄

… I WOULD HAVE TO BE A SUPERWOMAN WITH SUPERPOWERS …

Trying to be the Yummy Mummy while organising christening abroad,organising christening party in UK, getting my driving licence done and  planning to decorate the whole house …. It’s proving to be pretty difficult 😄

Before I became a mum I was prabably a workaholic who wasn’t capable of seating on her ass if there was the smallest thing to do. I loved doing things and seeing the end result. 

I have adapted very easyly to being a mum on maternity leave, and I love it, love every minute of it. Only thing which I crave is the feeling of accomplishment, knowing that I have done something. On the beginning when Chloe was  few days old it was cooking a dinner. Most of the time now it will be cleaning the house , doing and putting away washing, going shopping etc ….  Did you get the amazing feeling of achieving something really big and important after cleaning a bathroom when your baby was a month old ?? 😁 (heheheh times has really changed). Chloe is getting bigger and so is my need to complete and achieve things😊 as if being a mum wasn’t  enough. 

Chloe obviously comes first : keeping her entertain, going for a walk, playing with her and going to baby classes it’s a priority. That leaves me time when she naps, around 20 minutes in between the naps  and some time in the evening to do everything what I mentioned above + everyday running of the house + trying to spend some time with my husband ….. As you can imagine it all was proven a bit difficult to achieve 😄

I needed to realise that I am not a superwoman with superpowers (Just a superwoman) . 

With lack of superpowers I needed to step back, re prioritise, do one thing at the time and stay focus!

So of we went with organising Christning. Finding lots of restaurants and hotels in Poland while seating in Coffeeshop with Chloe sleeping. Then on her second nap if followed up on  all of the RVPS and in the evening checking them and sending emails to all of them. Now because I did it on Friday night it it meant that i had to wait till Monday to hear back. It made me feel soooooo good ! ! ! 

Now we have to buy light stroller for travelling  as I am not doing it again with out everyday pram (nightmare) highchair, travel cot and lots of clothes for Chloe. Get the driving lessons booked somewhere, finalise all Christning stuff and then fit in decorating 🙂 

……. I will just have to prioritise 😄

……. One thing at the time 😄

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL MUMS 



Happy Mothers Day To All Mums ❤

I do have to say that being a mum is one of the most stressful (you worry about them all the time) and wonderful (I can’t stop smiling and my heart is bursting with love) thing ️in the world ! I couldn’t be happier though I haven’t slept for over 4 months ❤️💛💙💜💚❤️💛💙💚❤️

Ps Chloe don’t dribble on my flowers !

BIB

Who would think that I would have such a strong opinion about bibs 😊

I know it’s a bit random but if your baby is dribbling all day long and insane amount of it, you start to have a vey strong opinions about bibs 🙂 

I always thought that it should look nice and that’s it. Now I discovered that’s not the case. Bibs checklist:

1. Obviously it needs to be pretty 

2. Traditional square shape with round cutting around the neck. Sounds silly ? I bought a lot of  triangle ones and they don’t fit around the neck properly and are quite short which means that she dribbles around it 🙂

3. Needs to have a waterproof lining underneath. Why? Bib without it is totally wet after an hour and so is Chloe’s top. 

4. Ideally don’t have velcro sticking it together. Reason behind is that after a few washes it stops working and it’s damaging you other clothes in the wash:-)

Hope that you find it helpful 😊