My Mummy

This is my mummy. She likes cycling and when I was inside her she still did it in all kinds of places like here on this beach. She wants to go out and do lots of exercise, but she hasn't been able to because of me and also she didn't feel very good when I was in her tummy. Apparently, she said it was "unbearable" most of the time, but she's happy now I'm here.

Here's mummy with her mummy and daddy (mumbee and grandad to me). They like going on steam trains and have a flat in France where we can go on holiday to see them, so it's chooo chooo and chuff chuff.

Here's a picture of mummy with daddy down at the allotment. They look very happy and you can see me making a big bump in mummy's tummy. It was warmer then.

Mummy also had a hard time with me in hospital. They had to get me out early and mummy and daddy weren't quite ready for that. They went in to hospital on Friday afternoon and mummy didn't come out with me until Wednesday afternoon. Mummy wanted me to be born in a water bath, but that wasn't possible so I was born in an operating theatre at 4.10am on Monday 29th November.

It's amazing that after all that mummy still looks so good in these photos. I was pretty tired after all that getting wrapped up in the chord and being pulled out with forceps - ouch!

In the hospital, mummy and daddy had to change my nappy for the first time. Here they are finding it a bit difficult. They're much better at it now and sometimes I don't even cry!

Another thing that was difficult was getting me to feed, so to start with mummy had to use a pipette (which you can see here)

and then afterwards she progressed on to using this pump, which was given to us by daddy's friends Sam and Nic who went to Australia.

When we came home from hospital, mummy was so pleased because she could eat proper food again! here she is at the dinner table enjoying a nice meal cooked by daddy, who's sitting with me.

Even though I keep her awake all night, mummy loves me and likes to give me lots of cuddles. Here we are on the sofa - it's hard to tell how little I let her sleep, isn't it?

I'm looking forward to learning lots of things from my mummy and going out on lots of walks with her when it's not so cold.