Laura

I’ve been awake since before 1 courtesy of our lovely neighbours. They woke Abi up at 3 so I uncharacteristically went round and told them they were keeping us all awake. Ricky comforted Abi, saying everything was ok and she said: “It’s not ok, the noise is bothering me!” They turned the music down a [...]

We’ve got some new neighbours. I was very nervous about them moving in because the first lot were really awful, shouting, screaming, swearing, loud music, fights that made you wonder whether you should call the police. The last lot were really nice, they could be quite loud at the beginning but once their baby was [...]

We had a fantastic holiday in Malta apart from the beginning and the end. Abi slept most of the flight and enjoyed the rest. I had a really bad chest when we got there and was struggling to breathe so after a nightmare first night we got a doctor out who diagnosed me with asthmatic [...]

This programme follows 6 sets of parents bringing up their newborn babies using either the harsh 1950′s approach (the Truby-King method), the laid back 1960′s approach (Dr. Spock), or the back to nature 1980′s approach (Continuum Concept). I honestly don’t know why the people following Truby King had children, it seems they just want to [...]

We’ve just come back from a fantastic Church Fellowship Weekend at Ashburnham. It in an amazing place near Battle in East Sussex. Apparently our bedrooms look out over the hill where King Harold and his troops set up camp in preparation for the 1066 battle. We had some lovely walks around the beautiful grounds. It [...]

Yesterday we celebrated our 5th anniversary!!! Don’t know where the time has gone. It’s quite incredible how different each year has been, especially this last one with our little Abi’s arrival! We had a lovely day, in the afternoon we went geocaching on the Farlington Marshes which was great fun, we got to try out [...]

We had a great week last week, Abi and I went to Devon for the week and Ricky joined us Thursday evening. We had a great time relaxing by the pool, messing around in the pool, drinking pimms, reading Harry Potter, and enjoying the gorgeous weather. Dad did a couple of fantastic barbecues, and Abi [...]

Saturday was busy but fun. My uncle, aunt and cousins turned up just after one as we were leaving to go swimming, they were stopping off in Portsmouth on their way to France. We were expecting them at 4ish but they had a better journey down than they expected. We went swimming anyway and they [...]

Just read this article on how they’re going to introduce new growth charts as the present ones reflect how formula babies grow rather than breastfed babies. I had a look at WHO growth charts when I was anxious about Abi’s weight gain and they still put her in the bottom couple of centiles so didn’t [...]

It’s been soooo good to have a week of nice weather after a couple of months of seemingly constant rain. This weekend has been wonderful. We went out for breakfast on Saturday morning then took Abi to the park and to the pedalos. I was quite nervous about whether she would like it or not [...]