If you are a regular Hip little one reader you may have read that our smallest addition is a very cute but not overly happy baby. Now of course I would love to sit down and hold her all day but the reality is that that is just not possible when you have 3 other children to look after and a household to run. Some [read more]
At our baby’s 4-week check up the child health nurse asked me to describe Sybil in a few words, it sounds horrible but all I could come up with was ‘grumpy’. Those first few weeks she cried day and night, didn’t sleep longer than 30 minutes at a time and was just generally unhappy. All we could do was shower her with hugs and kisses, hold her [read more]
You can tell Mother’s Day is around the corner by the type of junk mail in your letterbox. If you can believe the catalogues perfume, pyjamas, chocolates and toiletries are the most popular gifts and let’s not forget jewellery. Now I don’t know if it is just me but you would not make me happy with most of the jewellery in stores. Aside from the fact [read more]
When our little lady arrived 10 weeks ago she surprised us all by weighing in much heavier and measuring a massive 5cm taller than her siblings did. She is still a tall baby and that is proving to be quite tricky when it comes to clothes, I can’t go just by age anymore as the garments would be too short for her. The lovely Rochelle at Bean and [read more]
Our gorgeous baby Sybil is now 7 weeks old and after a few hiccups at the start we seem to have established some sort of breastfeeding routine that works for both of us. Expressing (excess) breastmilk has helped massively when I battled mastitis in the second week and it has provided me with a small milk stash. This frozen milk has proven to be very [read more]
When I look at the beautiful gummy smile of our 1 month old I can hardly imagine that in just a few short months the first teeth will start to appear. While those little white stubs do look terribly cute they can cause a lot of trouble, not only for your baby’s (and as a result also your) mood but for your nice furniture too. [read more]
Breastfeeding, what can I say, it’s almost a sport really: It takes a lot of exercise, you need to show persistence, for some people it comes naturally and for others it doesn’t, some people end up choosing a different sport, you even burn the calories! This is my third go at breastfeeding and I still find it hard. While I have not missed a single [read more]