Camping With a Newborn When we first found out we were expecting our bundle of joy we didn’t want to lose ourselves in parenthood. We didn’t want to stop doing all the things we loved. Having a child doesn’t mean your life ends, as many people our age would believe… Being parents, we still get to do everything we used to do but in a modified way. My husband and I ( and especially Ted ) love to go camping, so when the summer came around, when our son was only 2 months old we figured out how to bring a newborn camping. I mean I was camping at a…
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Date Night after baby!
10 Date Night In ideas! Once you have a baby it can be hard to find time for yourself not to mention your relationship, but it’s so important to nurture your relationship just as much as your baby. You hear a lot of the time that people end up resenting their partner or they end up breaking up because they fell out of love. That’s why you need to make time to connect and just be a couple. You may think ” we spend every evening together” that may be true but what I’m saying is set aside time to actually spend time together… not time where you both sit on…
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7 Ultimate cake smash tips!
7 Ultimate cake smash tips. When I started to plan my sons first birthday I really wanted to get a cake smash photo shoot done. So that’s what we did… but let me give you a few tips that might save you the headache we got. Bring a change of clothes. Bring an extra set of clothes for everyone who will be handling your bundle of joy. There was cake everywhere… my husband and son both needed a shower after. There was no way of handling my son and not getting cake everywhere. Bring a Towel. once your baby is on that ground with the cake in front of…
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7 Ways to Induce Labour Naturally!
7 Ways to jump-start labour! As a first-time mom, I was very excited and anxious to meet our little bundle. So at 37 weeks I went on the internet and found some old remedies that would help bring on labour naturally! So here is a list of things to help induce labour naturally. How to bring on labour naturally! When your 38+ weeks pregnant it can be very uncomfortable… you can find yourself dreaming of labour and counting the days till you get to hold your little bundle! 1. Walking. Walking can really help induce labour naturally and help move things along. When I was 38 weeks pregnant…
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Bonding with baby
Bonding with Baby. My Story about bonding with my son. I didn’t think it would be hard… I didn’t think I would have to THINK about it… I thought when you have a baby that you automatically have a bond with them and I guess you do in a way but not the way I was expecting. My husband and I found out we were expecting while we were planning our wedding, not the most conventional way but we rolled with it. We were planning on having kids quickly anyway. So we decided to move the wedding up, like a year and a half up. The wedding was planned in…
