Completely clueless

Things are ticking along nicely and then friends of ours who are also expecting, invited us to a Mothercare event. Ohhh doesn’t that sound lovely, we naively thought. It’s too early to buy anything, we foolishly said. We’ll just have a look, we smiled at each other.

And then we went. Nearly £600 lighter because it was such a ‘bargain’ . . .
 
Suddenly, we found ourselves stood in front of a sales person spouting words like “ISO fix, Base, Travel system, ECE R44, Connection points, Safety regulation-compliant, and Rearward facing.” Can’t we just have the one with the cute Elephants on I found myself thinking. Who knew there was so much to know about Prams and Car seats?!?

Proudly we stood in front of our Silver Cross Wayfarer Combination Pram and Pushchair System, Car seat and Isofix Base feeling quite pleased with ourselves and a little less out of the parenting loop! Probably should try and get the thing in the car before we get too smug!

“You’ve put it where!!” my mother screamed. Who knew that you weren’t allowed prams in the house until the baby arrives?!? We really are complete clueless.

Meeting Baby Poppet

So the first scan (12 week dating scan) was incredible. The nerves I felt going in were terrible. I couldn’t help wonder if it is normal to worry this much that the little poppet inside me is ok. Do all mums feel like this?

But as soon as I saw little poppet on the screen wriggling around, I felt like the weight had been lifted. I don’t usually buy in for all this emotional, soppy stuff but I’m not ashamed to admit I shed a little tear! That tiny little thing on the screen with a beating heart was growing inside me and it was ours. Is there anything more wonderful in life than this? It’s amazing how the start of this new life can make everything in your life just feel insignificant. God knows how I feel when this tiny ‘thing’ is out in the real world.

My husband and I watched as tiny poppet wriggled around inside me, apparently it was a fan of the golden syrup porridge I had for breakfast. Do I really have to wait so long for the next scan!!!