This month my Foodie Penpals parcel came from the lovely Marjan all the way over in The Netherlands! I always love receiving my parcel from overseas as it means I get to try to local foods that I probably wouldn’t get the chance to otherwise. The parcel made me smile straight away when I opened it to this gorgeous postcard with a glimpse of The Netherlands. I have visited a few times and I forgot how beautiful it was. I’ve also never tried any regional foods from there! First up were these cheese biscuits – quite like ones we get …
Home birth, but hospital stay – part 3
You can read part 2 here. Monday 3rd March I was hoping that we would be allowed to go home today, but as little man #2 still wasn’t feeding directly from me, that was a no go. At this point I once again considered just totally switching to formula so we could go home. But then I remembered how bad it made me feel last time so I got my determined head on and tried to be positive. We could do this. Hubby came back to hospital, bringing little man #1 with him. As LM#1 has a short attention span, I …
Project 365 – Week 12 (days 75 – 81)
Project 365 – Week 12 (days 75 – 81) March 16th / Day 75 Today was the first race of the 2014 Formula One season, so here is Daddy introducing little man #2. March 17th / Day 76 Two weeks in and still breastfeeding (that’s two weeks longer than last time around, so I’m happy!) – little man #2 drunk on boobie! March 18th / Day 77 Little man #1’s birthday is tomorrow, and he loves balloons – we also filled a big box with them for him to discover! March 19th / Day 78 Little man #1 was at …
Home birth, but hospital stay – part 2
You can read part 1 here. Sunday 2nd March We arrived at the postnatal ward around 3 pm, greeted by a lovely NICU nurse who admitted us to transitional care due to poor feeding and hypothermia. She took little man #2’s temperature again which was still 36 degrees, and because of this we put more woolly layers on him and swaddled him up and I had cuddles with him whilst we waited for the doctor. He was doing his rounds on NICU so we still had a bit of a wait ahead of us. At this point I was glad we took …
Home birth, but hospital stay – part 1
If you managed to read my birth story, then you will know that I got my much wanted, planned, home birth after some uncertainty as to whether I would be able to or not. It truly was magical and I would love another if we ever decide to have any more children. What wasn’t in the plan though, was to be admitted to hospital. I wanted a home birth, because this was something I majorly wanted to avoid. Saturday 1st March As little man was born in the very early hours of Saturday morning, one of the midwives came back later …