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Family, Personal Musings, Wasabi Updates
Ending the year with a 5 month old dribble monster

Motherhood. I gotta say, I’m still trying to figure this out. I’m not entirely sure I get what you’re supposed to be doing most of the time. But the bean is fed, cuddled, burped, kept clean and generally smiles at least once a day so I guess I’m not doing too badly. It’s New Year’s Eve, he’s 5 whole months old and it seems like he’s had a pretty exciting life these since my last update for someone still quite small. For starters, he’s done a fair bit of growing and has developed some extremely smushable baby thunder thighs. They’re…
31st December 2016
Family, Lifestyle, Photography, Wasabi Updates
Wasabi – 1st Month Update

1 month already! Wow, just wow. Well technically 5 weeks (by the time I actually manage to publish this – but little humans apparently take up a lot of minutes). It’s been a steep learning curve for me, hubby and the bean. Everyday I have to keep reminding myself that he’s still so brand new and that everything, I mean EVERYTHING is not only exciting but also unbelievably scary and unknown. He has no materialistic need for any of the beautiful things we try and surround him with. All he wants is to be warm, fed, clean and cuddled by…
5th September 2016
Family, Pregnancy
The day Wasabi hatched

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Yesterday my little Wasabi bean turned 4 weeks old. 4 weeks old! On 31st July 2016 he hatched and out came an actual person. A living, breathing, screaming and kicking tiny human being. I’ve been trying to recall all the events that happened leading up to that first moment that I heard his not so little first cry. Some things I still remember so clearly and some things have started to blur even though it wasn’t really that long ago. This is probably going to be a bit of a long winded post, but it’s more for me than anything…
29th August 2016
Family, Pregnancy
I’m growing a humanoid

It’s probably about time I dusted off the cobwebs from my dear little blog. I’ve had so many things I wanted to write about, so many pictures I wanted to post. But it turns out that growing a humanoid is actually pretty life consuming and what I wanted to prioritise. Most people in my life know now about the impending arrival, affectionately nicknamed Wasabi, so I thought I’d give a quick low down on the last 33 weeks. Yes, I am 33 weeks today! Conception Use your imagination… First Trimester (weeks 0-12) Apparently I was one of the lucky ones.…
6th June 2016
Family, Pregnancy
To the mothers to be as impatient as me

I never thought I’d be one of those highly obsessive women, scrutinising every single sign or twinge or… oh duck it, of course I was going to be! But after 5 months of trying including a month off in between because I was on holiday without the hubby, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect. I’ve met a lot of women (mostly online) in the same situation as me, all trying for their first, all just a little too obsessed and all in their 30s with their biological clocks (and multitude of family members) bugging them at the back…
17th November 2015
Family, Pregnancy
Babies, Pre-Eclampsia and Scheduled Sex

30 years later I still have my pink elephant that one of my older sisters made me. Ok, let’s talk babies. I’ve only just recovered from last week’s episode of One Born (bravo Mr. Anaesthetist!) so I better get this post done before tonight’s! Babies have always been on the cards, it’s just been a matter of timing. Realistically is it ever the right time? It’s hardly ever the right time for anything, let alone a baby. But what I do know is that hubby and I are financially stable, emotionally secure (well he is – hah, bloody hormones) and…
29th July 2015