5.5 months down a lifetime to go...

So I started this blog with the intention to go to Starbucks with my baby snugged up in her buggaboo having a skinny latte whilst I typed on my cute laptop, like the rest of the fulham mums! Oh I was wrong lol! So that's why it has taken to long for me to write this and launch it.

On the 4/4/15 I became a mum to a loud, crazy and hyperactive baby called Milena.

I would lie and say it hasn't been easy and I don't know if I am going to jinx myself, but I have found it easy. I feel like motherhood is a natural process which we can't deny, I have never grown up around babies or children, my family migrated from Colombia so all of our family lives there! So I was handed this little baby girl, she was forced onto my boob by a pushy midwife and then I was left too it. I didn't really feel like the midwives or even my mum had a huge impact on the way I have been raising her. Everything was my decision and now 5 and a half months on, I must give myself a pat on the back because I feel like together we are doing fine.

She is still breastfed and I have tried to give her a bottle, not because I want to stop, I love breastfeeding, I love that it's natural, that it is there on demand, that I don't need to sterilise the bottle or prep before I leave my house even more than I already have to with clothes ect. She is therefore attached to me my little co-d and I love it!!!

She still isn't sleeping the night, she wakes up every 3 hours to feed if I am lucky and we still co-sleep. As much as co-sleeping isn't recommended, I would have to disagree. Firstly I would have to get out of my bed to Breast feed her at night when she wakes up and secondly I like having her there. I don't want to wish away the days where she will want to sleep and cuddle her mummy or daddy. Those are the moments which I am going to treasure when she wants me to leave her round the corner of the school gate because she thinks she is a big girl!!

I started weaning her at 4 months, regardless of what the midwives advised me. I knew my baby she is a little chunk and she was already trying to eat all my food lol. She was so quick to pick up everything. She was born being able to lift up her head and she was so alert. She was able to sit up without support at like 13-14 weeks and now she can sit by herself for minutes without falling. So I knew that she was ready and as mums I think that's the most important thing, to trust your instincts because at the end of the day no one spends 24hrs with your baby but you!! I cook everything of hers from scratch. I started with just apples, pears, sweet potato ect. And I made sure everything was so smooth. Now I have been mixing loads of veg and fruit and yesterday I even introduced Lentils and i have been giving her foods that has more texture and little lumps! I love cooking and I love knowing that together with the Breast feeding, health wise I am doing everything for my daughter!

I still haven't been able to go out or have a date without her because she won't take the bottle. So she is 5 months and a half and she has not left my side. At first I can't lie I was angry when she didn't take the bottle because I wasn't able to go out with my boyfriend or spend at least an hour with him alone. But now I have accepted it, and I kind of love that she needs her mummy. By this time next year maybe I will be able to do a few more things, but for now I am doing the only thing I would want to be doing and that is raising my daughter, learning more about her and her personality everyday and learning about myself, as I'm a mum now!!

As for routines I have our routines on smash! Lol. She still goes to sleep every 2 hours for 45-1hr periods!!! So I am going to start blogging now! I have so many product reviews and so many recipes and stories from the last 5.5months so I invite you to embark on this virtual journey with me!!

With love ️

Majo and mimi