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What´s in a name? Well seeing as you are stuck with it all your life, then quite a lot rides on what your parents decide to call you.  And what a stressful choice it can be to make! In our case most of the stress came before  our little one was born, well it was [...]

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I was not really sleeping the nights before D day.  Having been so worried about the date the baby was going to be born, and the name, I was now just hoping that everything would go alright and the baby would be healthy.  Everything else did not matter any more.  The worry was intermingled with excitement thought [...]

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For someone who normally sleeps like a baby, insomnia is a very unpleasant reality during later stages of pregnancy. Sitting here, at 4.45am having been awake for 3 hours is a right pain in the a**. I am particularly jealous of my peacefully snoring husband beside me (I confess I have poked him a bit [...]

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..how lucky we are.  It takes friends and family to come over, and point out something that we have always known but maybe not appreciated - Alina is an extremely “tranquila” little girl.  She has always been very easy, even inside me she was calm and relaxed.  And when she was born she really [...]

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It’s a bank holiday Monday and I’m sitting in a park enjoying some “me time”. I’ve just put on some music and am conscious that this is the first time I have listened to this classical playlist since I was pregnant with Alina.
So the stats: I’m 23 weeks pregnant, with a due date of 6th [...]

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Am lying in bed beside my sleeping princess, in the countryside about 2 hours from Barcelona. We’re here to celebrate Karen and Alexis’s wedding. But today is also special because it is Alina’s first birthday.
So lets start with some memories.   I’ll never forget my first reaction to seeing her, i thought “she does not [...]

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I like working, of course sometimes it drives me mad, but generally I like my job and being busy. I like the office environment, meeting people, bossing people :-). I am not the kind of person who would ever want to give up work after having had a baby, and in my position shorter [...]

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For the last 3 nights, alina has not wanted to go to bed. She’s tired but literally starts crying getting into her pj’s and gets more upset. It is strange, she never usually cries like this.
Worse, when she is put to bed, she cries harder, and tries to stand up. For 2 of the last [...]

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