#minimeltdowns The Perinatal Mental Health team meant a huge amount to both me and my husband during my pregnancy. The Perinatal Mental Health team are a pretty new service to Warwickshire and we’re incredibly lucky to be able to access them. Peri (meaning around) and natal (meaning birth) means that this team are there to… Read more »

Princess and the Sprog March 10, 2018 Finding things to do at the weekend with a small baby is sometimes a bit tricky. They’re too tiny to get stuck in at soft play yet are dying for some decent stimulation (more than the house-full of Lamaze toys and sensory foil can provide anyway!). The English… Read more »

  Princess and the Sprog February 19, 2018 “I might just have a nap, standing up, holding the baby” said a lady next to me one coffee morning. Before you ask, yes she was joking and no, that’s probably not advised – but dear lord have we all thought about it at some point in… Read more »

Princess and the Sprog February 7, 2018 There’s a lot of talk about baby sensory amongst the world of Mums and child development so I thought it was about time I took Zac to see what all the fuss was about! We went over to a local sensory room that we hired out (as opposed… Read more »

Princess and the Sprog January 20, 2018   Having giving birth to a tiny human being  over 2 months ago, and making up for the lack of off-limit foods during pregnancy by eating my body weight in Brie and cured meats over Christmas, I decided that instead of moping about feeling like a right old… Read more »

Princess and the Sprog January 9, 2018   Well this was a new experience. Cinema AND baby…how could this possibly work I asked myself. Won’t he hate it? Won’t I spent 95% of the time trying to shhh him and miss the entire film? Well it turns out that when the screening is exclusively for… Read more »

Princess and the Sprog New Year New Identity January 3, 2018 As I sat watching the New Year fireworks on TV whilst feeding my 6 week old baby boy, I found myself thinking about just how much my life has changed. Little one had managed to time his feed so that we could see in the… Read more »

Princess and the Sprog December 1, 2017 When you bring your little one back from hospital and are in the comfort of your own home, you suddenly realise that all the research and prep you tried to do whilst pregnant will only get you so far. Just like anything, learning on the job is the… Read more »

  Princess and the Sprog November 19, 2017 On 14th November 2017 we welcomed little Zachary James into the world. Weighing 6lbs 11oz, he arrived exactly 2 hours before his due date at 10pm through a fairly straight forward natural birth. Now, no birth is ‘straight forward’ but I feel incredibly lucky that things went… Read more »

#minimeltdowns For most of us it’s a necessary evil or sometimes a welcome escape, and usually somewhere in between. You don’t need it be one or the other, whatever it is, don’t feel guilty. I can guarantee two things: 1. It’ll be hard leaving them; 2. It won’t be that easy readjusting to work life. That… Read more »