5.15am – Maia wakes up for the first time but unfortunately it’s not the first for me. I stayed up too late watching telly yesterday and Maia’s dream feed lasted for an hour so I only got to bed after midnight. For some reason I had disturbing dreams and kept waking up. Once I even Read More
Category: Baby update
Mum life part 3/5 – Wednesday
5.00am – Maia wakes up and I feed her for 15-minutes and put her back to bed. I feel like a zombie although we’ve slept for five hours. Looking back at it, I don’t know how I survived the first weeks and months with the newborn. Maia wakes up again two minutes later – sigh Read More
Mum life part 2/5 – Tuesday
5.30am – Maia wakes up for a feed having slept nearly 6 hours since the dream feed last night (at 11pm for 45-minutes). I feed her for 20-minutes and we fall asleep on my bed and sleep for another two hours (she has another 30-minute sleepy feed around 7am). 8.00am – I wake Maia up Read More
Mum life part 1/5 – Monday
But what do you DO all day on maternity leave?? I’ve been asked this question directly and indirectly, and for sure wondered it myself before having a baby. So to shed light on what I do during my days alone at home with my 15-week (3.5 months) old baby girl, I’m kicking off a series Read More
New baby milestones reached!
Maia and I have spent the last two (long) days at home because frustratingly for what is already the second time this winter I’ve caught a cold… There are no sick days from being a mum though so all I’ve been able do has been to keep activities to the minimum and sleep when Maia Read More
Three months old!
That’s it, the fourth trimester has officially ended! Maia is a big girl now, or at least a big baby, three months old and not a newborn anymore (sob sob!). I feel so proud of how well she has grown and how she’s developing into a little person, learning new things every week. I’ve had Read More