Not A Frumpy Mum

Weaning the second time round

Weaning the second time round

Before becoming a parent the thought of weaning hadn’t really entered my head.  I would worry about giving birth, whether I would be able to breastfeed, the lack of sleep, but in all the weird and crazy thoughts that pop into your head in the middle of the night, weaning was never one of them.  However, once O was born it began to concern me.  It was the one thing that I really began to stress over.  I went to our local baby group weaning sessions, I read up on it, waited until O six months and then began with…

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Now You’re Three Months Old

Now You’re Three Months Old

Dear G Happy 3 Month Birthday little man, I can’t believe how quickly the past 3 months have gone. A quarter of a year.  You are not my tiny newborn anymore, you are fast becoming my gorgeous little chunk.  All chubby cheeks, chubby thighs and double chins. Whilst the past three months has gone so fast I can hardly remember what it was like before you were here.  All the longing for you and the hurt has quickly disappeared, those feelings have been replaced by so much love.  And you are so much loved, by everyone.  They are all smitten…

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ToTs by SmarTrike Changing Bag Review

ToTs by SmarTrike Changing Bag Review

I think women often fall into one of two categories.  They’re either a shoe girl or a bag girl.  I am most definitely in the latter group, I love a nice bag!  Don’t get me wrong, I love a gorgeous pair of shoes too but I’m a scuffer and they don’t normally last too long before I’ve dented the heel or managed to scrape the leather off the front.  I’m much safer with a bag. In my pre-mummy days my bag of choice was my beautiful Mulberry Roxeanne bag but then O came along and it was swapped for something…

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Our Gro Snug Review

Our Gro Snug Review

My eldest son always loved to be swaddled as a newborn.  At the time I used a cellular blanket to wrap him in but I was always slightly nervous of using blankets as I was worried that they might fall over his face.  As a first time mum you worry about everything don’t you? I remember seeing the Gro Snug in a shop a couple of years after having O and thinking I wish I had seen them when he was a baby as it was definitely something I would have bought.  It actually made it onto the newborn wish…

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Moba Moses Basket Review

Moba Moses Basket Review

When I found out I was expecting our second child there was very little that we needed to buy as I had kept almost everything from when we had O.  Items were stored away in the garage, outside shed and in the attic so as we got closer to my due date we started to retrieve the newborn essentials from their hiding places.  One of the items we had put into the attic was the Moses basket.  The basket I had spent hours choosing first time round. When it was pulled out of the black bin bags that had been…

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