Blog about being Mum and everything that comes with it.
Months of planing, weeks of preparation, lots of stress, excitement and happiness … And now Chloe is one year old !
I have spent a lot of time making all birthday decorations, birthday cakes and food. This are the results of Chloe’s two birthday parties.
It has happened Chloe has turned 1 today! I cannot believe that my little princess is already 1 year old! Where did the time go ??!! When did the year go by ?? Yes in the past year I have been constantly tired, haven’t had many good nights of sleep and have been worrying all the time about everything. But it has been the most amazing, wonderful year filled with happiness and so much love that I found it overwhelming!!!! Chloe has come in to this world at the saddes time of my life and made me the happiest person on the planet !! Every day I would look at her cute little face, see her gorgeous smile and I would feel so happy, blessed and loved (even in the middle of the night after being up for 18 hours).
Chloe turning 1 was very emotional, a chapter of my and Chloe’s life has been closed! She officially isn’t a baby anymore …. She is a toddler!
Happy birthday my little princess! Thank you for being such an amazing baby and making me and Daddy so happy !
More about Chloe’s actual birthday and her parties in few days time!
I have been very lucky to be able to breastfeed Chloe straight away without any problems… Once she got hold of my breast and started sucking she didn’t want to let go for 12 hours !! This very painful 12 hours were a beginning of an amazing, emotional bond that I had with Chloe.
I loved every minute of it, every feed, every cuddle which came with it … And it made my life so much easier; I didn’t have to worry about having formula, sterilising bottles, making milk in the middle of night while baby screams for food…
Now that in few weeks time Chloe will be one and I will be going back at work it’s time to stop it… Naturally the amount of times I breastfeed Chloe has been dropping slowly over the last few months as she started to eat more and more solid food. We are now on 2 feeds a day, one in the morning and one in the evening . This week I have started to give her formula in the evening and only breastfed her in the morning . It has made me feel very sad and emotional … Especially when in the middle of the day she would start pulling my top down looking at my breast and say in her baby talk : give me my milk ! I never thought that this will be so emotional !
My baby girl is growing up …..
Chloe will be 1 in 4 days. I have been so busy organising everything for her parties that I have forgotten about her outfit ! My party outfit shopping finds for girls and for boys are below :
1. MONSOON
2. MAMAS AND PAPAS
3. MOTHER CARE
4. H&M
5. JOHN LEWIS
6. MANDCO
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…
SALMON AND BROCCOLI PIE
It’s the first time I have done a fish pie, but not the last time as Chloe loved it. It’s very easy , healthy and suprisingly tasty.
Ingredients:
– 2 tomatoes (skinned and chopped)
– 60g of broccoli florets (cut in to tinny bits)
– 1 small carrot (whizzed in food processor, or cut in to small pieces)
– 1 onion (whizzed in food processor or cut in to small pieces)
– 2 tsp of flower
– 200ml of milk
– 300g of salmon
– 50g of greater cheddar
– 1 tbsp of parsley
Cooking method:
Cook your sweet potatoes for around 15 minutes. Then add a splash of milk and mush to get a nice creamy consistency.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and fry onion and carrots for around 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and simmer for another 3 minutes.
Add flower and cook for 1 minute then add milk. Bring to boil then add the broccoli and salmon, simmer for 3 minutes . Add cheddar and parsley , combine it all together and season to tast.
Divide the mixture in to the baking pots, top with sweet potatoes and bake for 15 minutes in the oven at 180C fan/200C . Hope that you will like it !
4:30 am in the morning … Been awake for around 96 minutes …. And it doesn’t seem as if I am going to sleep any time soon, why? Trying to get Chloe in to her routine of sleeping through the night.
You know when you reed that you shouldn’t be bringing your baby to your bed when she/he is unwell, that you shouldn’t be breast feeding them for comfort, you shouldn’t be picking them up and rocking … I can understand why they say NOT to do it.
Few weeks back Chloe has had her first cold and straight after she went through seperation anxiety, this means a lot of getting up at night and crying. I couldn’t see her being so upset and just leave her to it, so I breastfeed her (it was really working), cuddled her a lot and was sometimes even bringing her to bed with me (which I have never done before). Now I have my 11months old waking up between 4am and 5 am demanding to be feed, and not being able to go back to sleep without it. This has to stop as I can’t be doing it when I go back to work… I have been trying to do it now for over a week but always gave in to her demands so that me and my husband could get some sleep but now with hubby away on business trip I am on the mission to stop it and to stick to it.
I feel so sorry for her as she has been trying to go to sleep for the last hour without a success…. I think that this might be a very long night ….
Came across it on Instagram and had to share with you. 
How many toys does your baby have ? 50? 70? 100? How many of those are in the nursery? 10?30? And how many are in your living room ? In my house toys are everywhere , and trust me I am not buying that many toys… I think that they are multiplying at night 😊. I have pick what I think is the best/ nices/cutest storage out there ! Hope that you can find one that you like !
1. Felt Playhouse Toys Storage from Child Home (www.Childhome.com).
2. Felt Toys Storage from Child Home (www.Childhome.com).
3. Stacking Toy Box – Heart from Great Little Trading Company (www.gltc.co.uk)
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2. Braided Wool Baskets from RH Baby & Child (www.rhbabyandchild.com).
4. Metallic Printed Canvas Storage – Pink from RH Baby & Child (www.rhbabyandchild.com).
3. Nursery Canvas Storage – Pink Bunny from RH Baby & Child (www.rhbabyandchild.com).
4. Toy Storage Basket from RiceDK from (www.littleyellowbirds.co.uk).
5. Toys Storage “Paper Bag” from Mama Potrafi (MamaPotrafi at http://www.etsy.com).
6. Toy Storage from H&M (www.hm.co.uk)
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …
MINCEMEAT WITH MUSHROOMS AND COUSCOUS .
Ingrediants :
– 200g of turkey mincemeat
– 1 small carrot
– 125 g of mushrooms
– 1 garlic cove
– 1 onion
– 200lm of baby chicken stock
– 1 tsp of reduced salt soy sauce
– 2 tsp of ketchup
Cooking metod:
Fry the onion and garlic. When your onion is gold add mincemeat and fry until is cooked (5-10 minutes). Add mushrooms to your mincemeat and fry for few more minutes then add chicken stock. Simmer until the liquid reduces. Add soy sauce and ketchup.
Make your couscous according to the instructions. Mix all together and it’s ready to serve
Top: if you don’t have the time to cut everything it to tiny cubes then use food processor to do it for you, it’s much quicker that way.
GROWNUPS VERSION
Ingrediants :
– 300g of turkey mincemeat
– 250g of mushrooms
– 250ml of mushroom or chicken stock
– 1 onion
– 1 garlic
– 1 tbsp of reduced salt soy sauce
– 4 pancakes
Cooking metod :
Cooking method is exactly this same as your baby’s version, with the exception of adding carrot or couscous.
Once you prepared your mincemeat mixture, make your pancakes. 
When you pancakes are ready, divide your mincemeat in to 4, place one portion on to the pancake and roll it.
Put pancake in to the egg, thencover it in the breadcrumbs and fry on the pan with olive oil. Or you can just eat it with couscous as your baby 😁
It’s official, my maternity leave is coming to an end very soon NO NO NO NO!!!! 😭 I have 5 weeks left and then I have to go back to work. First 3 months I will work 4 days a week. After the first 3 months I will be back at work full time; that is 5 days a week, 40 hours a week, 2400 minutes away from my precious little girl every single week. This means that I won’t see her in the morning, I won’t get her dressed, I won’t give her her breakfast, I won’t be playing with her, cuddling her, kissing her until 5pm when I will be back home from work…. Just thinking about it makes me cry! How will I do it? How will I cope with it?
This week we start settling in sessions at the nursery which Chloe will attend 2 days a week. We also will start teaching grandparents how to look after Chloe and slowly start leaving Chloe with them. I know that I have to do it so Chloe gets used to being without me but isn’t it ridiculous ? Isn’t it ridiculous that I am expected to leave my baby when the only thing I want to do is to have her next to me all the time so I can enjoy every second that I have left of my maternity leave?
I am trying to make the most of the 5 weeks left …There seems to be way too many things that I should do while I am still off, and every day things that I have to do …
My mum had 4 kids and was working full time and she has done an amazing job bringing us up… Everyone keeps telling me that after a few days back at work I will be fine …. I know that this is life and you just get on with it and make the most of what you have … But right now I don’t know how I will do it…. This will be up there with one of the hardest things that I have had to do in life …
NEW YUMMY MUMMY 