Maternity Leave: Baby classes, lots of cake and a sleep workshop

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Last year I went on maternity leave and became a first-time mummy to a little boy and my whole world changed. Even though preparing for baby got me ready, there’s nothing quite like suddenly having this little person to care for without a manual that rocks your whole world.

The first couple of months of maternity leave and adjusting to life with a new baby, it’s overwhelming and you’re both still very new to everything, so it’s okay to spend that time relaxing at home with plenty of cuddles and sofa time. I certainly just wanted to lock myself away for a while but it was one of my new mum pals that encouraged me to get out of the house.

Maternity leave cake
Coffee & cake catch ups with other mums were the best!
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Preparing for Baby: Courses Attended and Shopping on a budget

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Hey Sweeties,

There were a few things I attended ahead of birth when preparing for baby. For as long as I can pretty much remember I have always said that during pregnancy I would read up and attend as much as I could to feel prepared.

Do I still stand by that advice? Definitely. But it’s about finding and consuming the right things as there’s so much advice out there, and when preparing for baby things can quickly become overwhelming.

I kept with wanting to know what we needed, options for birth and understanding labour, basic care, and keeping baby safe.

I generally stayed away from reading other peoples birth stories.

Preparing for baby
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Career Anxiety: Is there a right time to have a Baby?

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Hey Sweeties,

Is there a right time to have a baby? This question whirled around my head throughout my twenties while I focused on developing my career in marketing. On my list of career anxieties, when to have a baby was at the top.

In short I tried to orchestrate a perfect career break to become a mum thinking I could squeeze in some career progression before baby arrived and it all went to shit.

Is there a right time to have a baby
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Little Learners Messy Play – Helping Children Learn through Mark Making & Sensory

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Hey Sweeties,

From about seven weeks old, I began to seek out local baby groups and classes that I could attend with my son, Austin. I had heard about the Little Learners messy play classes and Austin began attending our local group from around seven months old, at this point he could confidently sit and had begun weaning.

Little Learners Messy Play
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My Breastfeeding Journey – The Highs and Lows of Feeding my Baby

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Being a mum is a roller coaster journey, I have never experienced something so rewarding and challenging at the same time… and I am only six and a half months into it! I also have struggled with the speed in which things can change, not so much in my baby’s development and growth, but how you can be having a good day and then something happens that completely flips it on its head, and vice versa. This can apply not just to days, but weeks and months also.

I would advocate that the hardest part overall for me, until week 23 (shortly before my son turned six months old), was feeding him. This sounds crazy I know but any new parent will relate that it really is not straightforward, whether you choose to breastfeed or use formula (or both).

In the first few months, babies literally eat, sleep, poop repeat and I always figured that the sleeping would be the hard part. We have had our sleep struggles, sure, but for me the lack of sleep is just all part of having children. But my son’s weight going up and down on that bloody centile graph has caused me no end of problems, tears and stress!

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