Do we fancy winning one of the new Cosmopolitan blog awards…

Hmm…

Do we ever!

Which is why we are asking nicely…ok begging…for you to nominate us in the ‘Lifestyle’ category now! It takes no time at all, and you don’t even need to fill in any tiresome name, address, or email info about yourself.

I know our blog is only little and new, and I’m sure there are going to be hundreds of fabulous entries, but it would still be lovely to be nominated. So if you’ve ever enjoyed a post, or think we have anything vaguely useful or interesting to say, please think about voting for us.

Pretty please. With a cherry on the top.

Thank you!

x x

You may remember last week we introduced our new guest blogger, Kayleigh, and I promised Kayleigh would keep us updated on her new life with baby Nathan. Well, as promised, Kayleigh is back today, to tell us all about the first week with her new baby…

Day eight and we finally arrived home. We walked through our front door with my hospital bags and Nathan who was looking very tiny and “squishy” in his car seat, put him down then stood there terrified and wondering “What on earth do we do now???” It was all new and scary so we opted for the good old English cup of tea before deciding what to do next.

We were in hospital for so long because Nathan lost 15% of his birth weight due to feeding problems and had issues with his temperature. I never imagined breastfeeding would be so hard! My antenatal classes made me believe that after the birth we’d have skin to skin contact, my baby would route around, find the nipple, feed and we’d live happily ever after.

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