The instagram life that no one is living.... actually I applaud you if you are, but we really know your not! We all fall victim to it! The insta life were everything looks amazing, and looks like your living your best life. I will hold my hands up I am one of the worst for it and the first one to do it. But actually some days just go to shit. It’s ok not to live the perfect life because we’re all different and life would be boring if we were all the same and living the perfect life! And it’s ok not to take the perfect picture because after all we never laugh at the “perfect” ones do we?  Some mornings I wake up early after having 4 hours sleep straight through the night an make everyone organic smoothies & pancakes for breakfast and feel like a goddess. - (Pictures get taken) Some mornings I have about 5 minuets sleep straight we lie in an eat breakfast bars. - (No pictures get taken) Some days we go out all day on big longs walks looking at nature an wildl...

Here we go: we have made the jump from one bambino to two bambino’s ( in 23 months).  First thoughts .... it’s not as hard as everyone says until Lee went back to work he was home for just shy of 5 weeks! Well saying that our first outing it took us 2 hours to leave the house! How is that even possible?  Just to put you in the picture my husband works offshore so when he is away we don’t see him for 3 weeks at a time. Therefore I am relating this blog to learning how to cope with two babies when Daddy returns to work weather that is your partner works away or he does a 9 to 5  .... it’s a work in progress! The lack of sleep: The sleepless nights aren’t too bad (Lee & I don’t need that much sleep anyway) but I am breastfeeding so Lee would pass me the babe & then go back to sleep. (A perfect way for a dad to help a breastfeeding post c-section mama), he would also get up with Doll in the morning so I could rest! (Sharing the child care load is so impor...

Ok so I’m nearly 6 weeks in exclusively breastfeeding my third babe, Winnie. I exclusively pumped for Charlie (babe no.1)for his whole life (12 days). And I fed Dolly (babe no.2) until she was 17 months.  Baby no.1 Charlie 22/10/2010 Charlie was born at 32 weeks by emergency c-section, I  hadn’t put much thought into feeding I just thought I would formula feed, I was 18 and hadn’t had much experience with baby’s. Charlie also had a condition called gastroschisis, it’s a birth defect which affects the abdominal wall, his intestines were on the outside of his body. He would need surgery to correct this. When Charlie landed on the unit at Liverpool’s Women’s Hospital doctor’s advised me that he would need either my milk or donor milk. I decided my milk would be best and started the pumping journey, every two hours I would religiously pump sometimes next to the incubator ( I find that helps with milk supply as you can see your babe). If I could not pump next to the ...