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November greys and December golds

I didn’t like November very much. The first weekend was amazing – my husband turned 30 and Clara was christened, but after that it was pretty much downhill from there. I think I was fearing the winter. How would I feel as the nights got darker? As anniversaries of last years events crept closer? AsContinueContinue reading “November greys and December golds”

11 months old

It’s like she turned 11 months and grew up overnight. My little Clara is growing up fast. And based on the amount she’s napped and eaten today, I don’t think the growth spurt is stopping anytime soon. On Monday, Clara hit the big 8.0kg in weight – a huge relief considering she’d lost weight theContinueContinue reading “11 months old”

Short Gut Syndrome: diet and weight management

With most babies, weight gain is considered a sign of success. After the early stages, you get baby weighed every few months to check all is well. With Clara it’s a little more complex. We’re getting her weighed weekly at the moment since she lost a chunk of weight when she had rotavirus. Clara hadContinueContinue reading “Short Gut Syndrome: diet and weight management”

Rotavirus

This week wasn’t quite what we had planned. On the to-do list was pumpkin picking, play dates, and more. Unfortunately, Monday didn’t start too well. We – and in the end it was all three of us – weren’t going to be going to any pumpkin patch anytime soon after all. Clara usually sleeps throughContinueContinue reading “Rotavirus”

You’ve helped us help Tom’s Ward

Our fundraising drive this year has raised an incredible amount of money to help the various teams who have helped us. We spent six months on Tom’s Ward, the paediatric surgical ward at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, so it was very important to us we not only gave something back to them, butContinueContinue reading “You’ve helped us help Tom’s Ward”