Friday 25 May 2012

Breech baby

I've done I've got down into single figures. I am now 31+ 3 weeks, which means only 8 weeks and 4 days to go til my due date.

I had a midwife appointment yesterday, all bloods came back fine, measuring spot on and no problems with blood pressure etc but as the midwife was having a feel of my tummy, I was telling her that this had been my most straight forward pregnancy, she then looks at me and says your baby has turned breech!!! Not quite what I wanted to hear, I'm hoping that she has got it wrong as I haven't felt any big somersaults and at my 4d scan she was definitely head down.

Now if she is breech how do I get the little lady to turn without doctors getting involved??

xxx

Thursday 10 May 2012

All for Charity

I was contacted recently about a single that is being released for the charity Nordoff Robbins by a pre school music group called Monkey music so I thought I would help in spreading the word as it is a very worthy cause.

Nordoff Robbins is a national specialist music charity, delivering 50,000 music therapy sessions a year to a broad range of people in schools, hospitals and care homes across the UK. Their qualified music therapists specifically help people with a range of challenges including autism, dementia, mental health problems, stroke, brain injury, learning difficulties, depression and in some cases clients have threatening or terminal illness, such as cancer.


Monkey music is the UK's premium music school for pre school children and from now until the end of May they will be teaching the charity single in their classes to the children.



I have had a listen to it myself and have to say it is very good. It tells the story of running a race and it has what they are calling a sporty interlude which allows everyone to have a good old dance and stretch whilst enjoying the music, I let my kids have a listen and they were joining in straight away.

The charity single is called "The Day is Here" and is being released on the 18th of May. The song is being performed by their 7, 8 and 9 year olds. It will be available to download from Monkey musics official site http://www.monkeymusic.co.uk/


I hope you will join me in helping raise money for this charity and help raise awareness at the same time.

xxx

Nappies nappies everywhere

My due date seems to be fast approaching and as it gets closer I am starting to make list of things that I still need to buy, I liked to be organised.

One of the things that every baby needs is nappies because as we all know baby's will wee and poo lots and lots, just one of the joys of being a parent.
This time round I have decided to use cloth nappies. I started using them when my youngest daughter Gracie was 14 months old because she got horrible rashes and burns from disposable nappies and I have to say I wish I had used cloth nappies with all of my children.

There seems to be a mis-conception when it comes to cloth nappies that they are more difficult to use than disposables, that they smell, that washing them is a pain etc. I think everyone just remembers the old terry nappies and rubber pants and programmes like loose women and Lorraine do nothing to change peoples ideas about this but let me tell you times have changed and these concepts couldn't be further from the truth.

Now the lovely people at Baba+Boo have asked me if I would like to help them show people just how easy reusable nappies can be and have asked if I will review a couple of their nappies as well as some of their reusable wipes when my little bundle arrives and of course I was very quick in saying yes.

So I would like to use this post to give a brief introduction into their nappies, here are the nappies that they have sent me to review :

I chose the Moo power, which is a minky fabric and the  mummys little soldier which is a poly cotton fabric, both have a hidden waterproof fabric, there are lots of other designs to choose from. These are what are know as birth to potty nappies which means as it says, they can be used from the minute your baby is born to when the time comes that they are potty trained. No need to spend lots of money on lots of different size nappies.

The wipes that I chose are fabric one side and cotton terry the other, they come in a pack of 5 and are big enough that you only need to use one wipe for each bum change. See how easy they are already.



This picture to the right demonstrates how the nappies are made smaller. As you can see from the nappy on the left there are three rows of poppers on the front, when the top and bottom poppers are snapped together it makes the nappy a lot smaller, hence making it the perfect size for a newborn.

You also have two rows of poppers at the top, one for the waist and one for the hips, this is so you can adjust the nappy to fit snuggly round your baby's legs and waist. Another reason why cloth is better than disposables as they are more adjustable therefore fitting baby's of all shapes and sizes.


Now I bet your wondering how these nappies manage to contain all the wees that your little ones will do.

These nappies each come with two large microfibre inserts that have poppers on one side so that they can be made smaller to fit inside the nappy when it is made smaller.

You can use either one or both inserts depending on how heavy a wetter your baby is.




Now you can't tell me I haven't got you interested, just look at how cute these nappies are. If you are anything like me you will start to coordinate their nappies with their outfits :) I look forward to testing thes out properly when baby number 4 arrives.

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Third trimester

Today I am officially in my third trimester, can't believe I am 28 weeks already. In some ways it seems to have gone so quick and in other ways it seems to be going quite slowly.

I weighed myself this morning and so far I have put on 1 stone, not sure if that's good or bad?? I seem to be all bump though, must get a photo.

The one thing I have noticed is that I am slowly going back to how I was in the 1st trimester, feeling sick in the mornings, getting very tired. Although the tiredness is probably down to the amount of times I am getting up in the night for a wee :) . And the heartburn has begun, the old wives tales say that if you have heartburn in pregnancy then your baby will come out with lots of hair, this has never been the case for me, I have had it in every pregnancy and all of my lovely children have come out bald lol. I've never managed to find anything that really stops the heartburn, gaviscon makes me feel sick.

I am going for a 4d scan on Saturday, this will be my first time having one and I am so excited to see our baby although I am pretty sure I know what she is going to look like as all of daughters have looked the same as babies and you never know we might be able to see if there is any hair beginning to grow!!!!

xxxx