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We’ve been loving using the @snuzuk Snuzpod 4 as

We’ve been loving using the @snuzuk Snuzpod 4 as our night-time sleep crib since Asa was born! Babies should be in your room for the first 6 months (at least!) & a bedside crib solution is one of the best imo.

For the first few weeks we didn’t have it attached to the bed due to my c-section mobility, but we’ve now got it attached and it’s even better for night feeds/soothing (prepping for that glorious 4 month sleep regression 🫠🫠)

Let me tell you why I love it: the safety features are too notch (the comfort air system means better airflow and temperature regulation, and it meets all current safety requirements), the crib can be taken off and used elsewhere in the house, it’s ✨aesthetically✨ pleasing (way more than others on the market!), there’s a handy storage area underneath where we keel clean muslins & sleeping bags, it can rock for that soothing jiggle-jiggle that babies love! We were also gifted the Snuz cloud which is a baby sleep aid — I’m a big fan of pink noise for soothing babies and this works wonderfully (turns itself off after 20 mins too!).

I’ll be sad to see it go when Asa moves to a bigger crib 🥲

Snuzpod 4 and Snuz Cloud (gifted) @snuzuk

Nothing like a big cloth baby butt in leggings (ev

Nothing like a big cloth baby butt in leggings (even if you need to put them in 6-9m to fit it in! 😅).

This time around we’re using more disposables (still eco, @kitandkinuk or @ecobynaty) than with Eli, mainly when we’re out and about (had a few poopsplosions early on and skinny newborn thighs just can’t contain them!) or when we’ve had an emergency at home (when we’ve gone through ten nappies in the space of a couple of hours!). I’d say we’re about 90% cloth so far, it’ll probably be more so as he gets bigger as we have a load more birth-to-potty size. Every cloth nappy counts after all, and I’m all for taking whatever easier route I can with this second babe 😅

*PR Gift Beautiful Moses basket from @thelittlegreensheep 😍

I never used to get my boobs out at parties 🤷🏻‍♀️

Can’t even count the number of people that have seen my boobs over the last couple of weeks, when the baby wants to eat he wants to eat! And I’m not about to start faffing around with a cover tbh. #normalisebreastfeeding #normalizebreastfeeding

Photo dump from the last few weeks and a bit of an

Photo dump from the last few weeks and a bit of an update about our feeding journey!

If you’ve been following along on stories you’ll know that Asa, like Eli, has had a bumpy start with feeding. He lost 10.2% of his birth weight, which is a little more than they like to see, and so we were yet again asked to do cup feeding too-ups with formula.

This time around I refused to let it get to me & just went with the flow (with Eli it really stressed me out!), giving him as much boob as possible and topping up with formula after day time feeds. He was still slow to gain, but on Wednesday this week (at 23 days old) he was back at his birth weight after a big old gain over 7 days! We’ve been able to stop top ups and been discharged from the midwives 🥳

I was ready for it this time, ready to pump to help my milk supply, take a few supplements (whether they work or not 🤷🏻‍♀️) and top up with formula as needed. The experience of last time taught me that it all works out in the end, whether that looks like exclusive BF, supplementing with formula, or moving to combi feeding. Last time I got caught up with what I can only describe as a ugly, militant side of breastfeeding (where scaremongering about formula is rife), and it’s such absolute bullshit. Your mental health is incredibly important and pushing yourself to the absolute limit to exclusively breastfeed is just not worth it! Fed really is best.

I’ve also come to realise that every baby is different, Eli wasn’t a hungry newborn (he mainly gained his weight once he started on solids!) despite all our attempts to get milk in him, whereas Asa seems to be enjoying it a lot more 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you’re in the thick of it with feeding problems right now I promise you it gets better. You’ll come out of the other side realising how short a time it actually is & they’ll soon be eating shit off the floor like every other toddler anyway!

We let Eli pick Asa’s middle name, how’d you t

We let Eli pick Asa’s middle name, how’d you think that went?! 😅

To be fair we gave him a few to choose from, we couldn’t decide so thought the decision would be nice to come from him. Given free rein it would’ve probably been Pizza or Dragon 🤣

So say hello to Asa Fox! 🦊

“The Easy Way Out” It’s not though, is it?

“The Easy Way Out”

It’s not though, is it? I wouldn’t call major abdominal surgery easy. It’s *definitely* not easy to recover from having six layers of skin, abdominal wall and uterus cut through, while looking after/breast feeding a newborn.

No method of childbirth is easy, so don’t look at our bruises & scars and say this is the easy way out. It really isn’t.

I’m 8 days postpartum, my dressing came off yesterday, and the bruises are slowly fading. I’m hoping the nerve damage heals as well as last time, but who knows. In the mean time I’ll be wearing my M&S full briefs and trying to stop a toddler jumping on me 😬🤷🏻‍♀️

#postpartum #postpartumbody #csection #csectionrecovery #csectionscar #fourthtrimester #postpartumjourney

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