We’re getting Infanrix at our local surgery! Yesterday, I still hadn’t heard anything and ended up fighting back the tears at the Health Visitor Clinic and telling her how let down I felt. She went and had a talk with the head practise nurse, and as long as I book the appointment with her, we’re [...]

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Never EVER pop out to the garage to look for “just one thing” amongst the pile of boxes that are still unpacked as there’s no home for them in the new house. I went out for ONE exercise video. “Ooo… there’s Akra Jr’s birthplate. We can put it up next to the birthplate we just [...]

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I GOT A SMILE!!!! Now all I have to do is get Li’l Bhaji to do it when there’s a camera in the vicinity…

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So, I’m on the way back from taking Akra Jr to Tumbletots… *takes a deep breath* Li’l Bhaji wakes up a full hour early in the car and starts screaming Finally get home and bump into next door neighbour’s mother who is looking after their baby girl Manage to extracate Akra Jr from peering into [...]

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Braved the big bad world today and bundled all of us into the car for a family get together in London. Was exhausting, but good fun. Akra Jr particularly enjoyed himself as he got to run around with his cousins all afternoon. I seemed to spend most of the time glued to the sofa feeding [...]

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I had the trip into town from hell today. It was the first time I’d ventured out into town with the two of them, though thinking about it retrospectively, a Saturday probably wasn’t the best time for our maiden voyage even though Akra was around as a result. First of all, we popped into the [...]

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This is such a pathetic whinge I know, but Akra Jr has started calling us “Mum” and “Dad” instead of “Mummy” and “Daddy” and I hate it. I know it’s a point that comes to us all – I’m not expecting him to still call me Mummy by the time he’s got children of his [...]

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… you just have to appreciate the irony. Patient Choice in the NHS is hitting the headlines again. *cue hysterical laughter*

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I’m feeling clucky again already. Which is odd, because I still *have* a young baby. And I don’t really enjoy the baby stage. Well, apart from the new baby smell. And the little peach fuzz that passes as hair at the back of their heads. And the cute little way they nuzzle against you and [...]

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An update to my previously blogged about vaccination dilemma. I went to see the practise nurse today (they’re in charge of the immunisation schedule at that practise so that’s who you have to see). She really wasn’t interested in what I had to say, didn’t read the printouts I’d carefully prepared to back my arguments [...]

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