Mamababybliss South Nottingham, West Bridgford Nottingham, Nottingham (2025)

22/08/2025

Rainbow Baby Day 🌈

I posted this image last year with the caption that I didn’t really understand the phrase ‘rainbow baby’ until we’d experienced loss. A year on sitting here with our rainbow baby in my arms it’s got a whole different meaning.

Never thought we’d get here and will never forget everything we’ve been through and the babies we’ve lost to get here.

One of the things that always brings me comfort is knowing that when you have a miscarriage you still carry the cells from your baby in your body. It’s called microchimerism and it means they never really leave you & Louie carries these cells of this siblings within him 🥹.

I still don’t ever take my 3 rings off, with me always and they even stayed firmly on in theatre during our C section for Louie. 🤍🤍🤍

I know this day will be tough for so many. Whatever this day means for you I’m thinking of you 🩷

07/08/2025

World Breastfeeding Week 2025 🩷

‘Invest in breastfeeding, invest in the future’

As someone who’s currently navigating this for a second time I feel it’s only right to share my current reality.

I feel so lucky I get to breastfeed for a second time but I have to admit even being trained in Infant Feeding this time around I’m still finding it incredibly hard.

Louie has a small tongue tie but because he’s gaining weight really well and the latch is a lot more comfortable now because we’ve worked together on positioning and attachment I know it’s likely there will be a long wait on the NHS if we get referred so I’m going to go privately to get a full feeding assessment and put my mind at rest.

We did see the infant feeding team in hospital who were amazing and checked the latch but my gut is telling me that 2 weeks on the tongue tie is still having an impact on our feeding journey.

The reality for so many is it doesn’t matter how you choose to feed your baby it’s really hard. And even if this isn’t your first baby, every baby is so different so it’s learning together again.

I still strongly believe the key is education in pregnancy before baby arrives and really pushing for that support once baby is here if you feel like something isn’t quite right. We spend so much time preparing for the birth of our babies but not what happens afterwards and feeding your baby milk (whether that’s breast milk or formula) is something you’re going to be exclusively doing a lot of for the first 6 months of their life. Every parent deserves that support.

If you’re struggling now don’t be afraid to reach out and push for that help that you deserve 🩷

31/07/2025

It’s like he’s always been here.. The last 5 days in photos 🥹

I was very open about wanting a planned C section this time around after our birth with Harrie & everything we’d been through with the miscarriages since. And yes we got our C section but like I predicted the whole way along, someone didn’t want to wait & wanted me to experience some contractions again first. 🙃

Everything started on Friday afternoon with ‘my bloody show’ appearing & period pains starting. The nice thing about having a planned section this time was I still had the option to labour naturally if I wanted but as soon as things started to happen it confirmed that it really wasn’t the route I wanted to take again so we went into hospital to get checked. Kerry our amazing Doula met us there (will do a separate post on how incredible Kerry was)

On the way in the period pains started to form a pattern & I knew these were contractions. They were initially cautious about acting too fast because of the gestation but my own consultant was shortly coming on shift so agreed to wait & make a plan with her.

We saw her around 9/9.30pm and she agreed that if this was what we wanted then let’s do it. By 10pm we were heading to theatre. In there they confirmed I was 3cm dilated so I was so glad we made the decision we did & actually part of me wanted my body to start labour naturally because then it made me feel like it was his decision.

The C section went really well. The staff were incredible & we both felt so supported. I watched his birth with a mirror over the screen & apart from needing help with his breathing when he first came out (I did go into major panic at this point) everything was just as we wanted & everyone else around me were so calm. We had our first feed in recovery & he hasn’t been off the b**b since.

We had to stay in for 4 nights because they were worried about his jaundice but I was in no rush to get home. Being away from Harrie was SO hard but I felt so looked after in hospital this time I wanted to make sure we were both doing okay before leaving.

And now we’re home together as a 4 🥰
25/07/27 | 37 + 5 weeks | 8lbs 4
Louie you’ve completed us 💙

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