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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