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I have been trying to do baby sign with Natalya but it is harder than I thought it would be. Try signing to a baby while you are holding her!

Try remembering to sign when you have been getting up to a baby all night!

The one sign I have been fairly consistent with is milk. It is made with both hands and looks like you are trying to milk  a cow.

On Saturday Natalya did a one ...

Yesterday morning both Natalya and I woke up with coughs. It was annoying but not too bad. Then last night about 10ish Natalya’s cough got really bad and had a very disturbing pitch.

My husband Haydon is a registered nurse. In fact he has spent the last few days manning the Accident and Emergency department for the morning shift. When he heard her cough last night he became concerned by the pitch that it may be ...

She is not letting me have a night off to sleep. I keep having to hold her both during the day for her to sleep and often at night too. Last night she actually slept in her cot but I still had to get up umteen times to feed her and change dirty nappies. I have also been baking. Pizza dough and bread in the breadmachine and also my mums eggless Mocha Date Cake. Natalya ...

My washing machine is home again after it’s third trip to the repairers this month!

Well actually it started at the end of April just before I had to go to Perth to help my brother look after his kids while his wife went away.

The washing machine stopped pumping the water out so Haydon and I lifted it onto the back of the old ute and I took it to Bunbury to be repaired. I went ...

I’ve just been puked on, pooped on, sucked on, and screamed at. Now she is finally asleep! Ain’t motherhood grand!

I walked down  the hill to town today for the first time since before Natalya was born. By the time I got there the shop I wanted was closed (closed at 12:30). I treated myself to a milkshake at the coffee shop and bumped into Amanda and Jaxon with Amanda’s mother in law. Jaxon is only ...

I have been blogging on Minti  but now I want to blog here and set up a feed to Minti. If I understand it right by putting MumKim.minti.com in the first few lines of this blog it should help the process. Wish me luck!

I finally arrived home three weeks ago. Since then I have been trying to catch up with everything. It took me nearly two weeks to unload the cases. I could only do it when Natalya was asleep and since she sleeps in our room I couldn’t put my clothes away while she was asleep. Eventually I got hubby to hold her when he was home so I could put some stuff away.

Having the car broken ...

I still haven’t got home again but I am back in Oz. We went to New Zealand to introduce Natalya to Haydons family. We got back to Perth on Wednesday night. Natalya and I met Wildrose from Minti for lunch on Thursday. It was the first time we have actually met face to face. I will post a photo when I finally get home. On Friday while we were taking Natalya to the doctors some ...

Last night I paid the price for bragging about Natalya sleeping through (before last night she had slept through for 6 of the last 7 nights. Last night she woke me up every two hours of so. It was the first night since she was born that she hasn’t given me at least one three and a half hour block of sleep if not more or longer.

Today she has been feeding so much I feel ...

Natalya was very unsettled last night. She fed and she screamed. I had to hold her and pat her back the whole time. At one stage the phone rang and even with it right up to my ear I could barely hear the person on the other end over the sound of her crying. I moved the phone across to my right ear and just managed to make out my mothers voice saying “I’ll call ...