Newmumtales's Blog

I drive my husband crazy. He’ll be delighted I’ve said this because it’s true and possibly in more ways than one but mainly because I always have my phone in my hand!! My phone is literally full of photos of Alby. I have photos for every little thing that he does and the child has actually started to just do ‘nothing’ every time the phone comes out (is that even possible for a five month...

Getting out - sounds like an easy enough task. WRONG. When you have a new baby nothing about getting out is easy. It should officially go down as one of life’s hardest tasks. I found this to be one of the biggest challenges in the first few weeks, I recall saying this before but trust me there’s definitely more than one challenge as a new Mum. I remember getting appointments for health checks...

The day you give birth is a day you will remember for the rest of your life. The moment you meet your baby for the first time goes way beyond any description I could ever provide here. I get excited when I meet first time mums-to-be as I know how much of a treat they’re in for and I won’t lie I also get slightly jealous of what they’re about to experience for the first time because there...

I don’t know what it is but I read all the books and downloaded every single pregnancy related app and nowhere did it tell me (maybe it did and I chose to ignore it) that I would literally have no clothes to wear once I came home after giving birth, and I mean not a stitch! When you’re a mere mortal like myself you will walk out of the hospital and mind you I couldn’t even manage this very...

The first few days at home with a new-born can be really tough. For one you will be exhausted and sore and two did I mention sore and exhausted? I always say to my husband now if someone handed me a new-born on a day where you haven’t just been through 10 months of physical exhaustion (also known as pregnancy), labour and sleepless nights in a hospital I honestly think I’d do great, wouldn’t...

Ok nobody told me about the fear. Yes this is the new mum, don’t look at how I'm holding my baby fear. Honestly this exists, I remember my husband going home and leaving me in the hospital the first day our son was born. I have never felt so scared in all my life. How? that was the first question that came to my mind. How do I hold my baby properly? How do I feed my baby properly? How do I...