Late nights and even earlier mornings

Ever feel like you been awake so long that your not sure if you had a late night or a really early morning, well this is what I have been suffering from. My pumpkin wakes at about mid night and we are up just about all night.

I sit here typing now as my fiance sleeps blissfully unaware that our pumpkin is in her cot crying refusing to go to sleep, it is too hot for cuddles with her, If I pick her up she pinches and slaps me because of the heat she does not want a cuddle. SO I do all the things they say a good mother should do, try to console baby, cuddle baby, feed baby, check babies nappy, nothing is wrong except it is hot. I don't know how long this will go on for tonight but I Suspect it is going to be another long one

Why is it ok for females to ask questions about my baby but i freak if a man asks the same questions

Just a little observation, Women always seem to approach me when i am out with pumpkin and ask all the standard questions, How old is she?, do i breast feed?, how much does she weight?, does she sleep though the night? etc and I never have a problem answering these questions.

However I have noticed more and more men are approaching me asking me the same sorts questions and for some reason I don't want to answer their questions. Why does a man want to know about my baby? why does he care? is a pedophile is always the first thing that pops into my head yet it never does when a female asks the same questions. Is it wrong of me to think like this or am I just a being a cautious mother?

I never had an issues speaking to men before i had my baby but now I seem to think every man is a preditor out to get my baby.

I walking to my local shops and walked past a preschool when I saw a man walk past out the front and my first thought was is this man just out on a walk or is he a pedophile sussing out the pre school. I am sure he was just out for a walk like i was but you never know

I think i have become completely paranoid since becoming a mother

Bubbles and Poo

So Today really was no different to any other. We have a shared back yard and we share it with a 2 year old, 3 cats and a dog. My neighbors 2 year old is obsessed with bubbles so every afternoon we go outside and watch my neighbor create bubbles for her little boy.

My Pumpkin just loves to go and watch the back yard fill up with bubbles and giggles so hard when one lands on her. This happened today only when she giggled she also pooped and not just an ordinary poo this was an all out explosion requiring special attention. Note to self do not hold your little one tight while she is laughing.

I took her inside to start the clean up process I get her cleaned up enough so that i put her in the bath, bath her and get her clean.

Lets just say I wont be holding her so tight when i take her out side tomorrow to watch the bubble show

Breat Milk V's Formula

Now I know I am opening a can of worms here, but now that pumpkin is 5 months old I have decided to switch to formula.

So Hear I am day 4 into weaning pumpkin and it has not been as easy as I thought it would be. I am waking up with such sore boobs from going all night with out breast feeding, I am still breast feeding the first feed of the day and normally one in the afternoon.

The reason that I have decided to switch to formula is due to on going issue's with breastfeeding, plus pumpkin has worked out how to bite and pinch while feeding and I can tell you this is not fun at all. so if anyone happens to read this and has any tips for helping weaning please let me know.

On a plus side she is sleeping much better going up to 10 hours straight on breast milk she was only going 4 hours max so mummy and daddy are getting some more sleep as well. Plus her reflux is so much better she was spewing after every feed and this has been reduced to maybe 1 spew up a day.

I hope that pumpkin will be fully weaned within a month

My very first post

Who am I and why and I starting a blog...

I Have never been much of a writer but after reading so many blogs I have decided that it is time to start my own. So first a little bit about me. My Peta and I am from Sydney Australia I have a 5 month old daughter and I am engaged to be married. I have decided to keep my daughters name private so for the sake of her privacy I will refer to her as Pumpkin.

Pumpkin has totally change my life I have gone from working full time in the corporate world of Banking and Finance to being a full time stay at home mum. This has been very rewarding but also very challenging at the same time. Gone are the high heels and business suits now its bare feet and tracky dacks, shaving my legs has become a way of pampering my self and a daily shower is a luxury but I would not change a thing for the world.

I am writing this mainly for my self to keep a record of the daily happenings of motherhood and so that one day pumpkin will have some of her mummies writing to look back at and see what life was life during her early years.

My two favorite blogs are www.hisboyscanswim.com and http://www.mattlogelin.com/

So this it is...... more blogs from me later....