Baby Brain Memoir Giveaway!!

Hello everbody!

 

Hope you and your tots are all well!

 

With a chance to win your very own Baby Brain Memoirs hamper which includes lots of our favourite bits featured in my blog, follow us on Facebook/Instagram and share this picture and tag us in it :) The winner will be selected at random on Monday 2nd February!

 

The hamper includes the following:

• A Mom’s One Line a Day diary

• Toy Links

• A monkey change/craft mat

• An animal bath book

• A giraffe bath toy

• A giraffe squeaker toy (one of Arjun’s favourite first toys)

• Sensory wipes

• Sensory sponges

• A baby hand printing canvas kit

• All enclosed in my one of my favourite things ever – a flexi basket!

 

Also now that you have an insight in to the life of Arjun and mummy, it would be great if you could let me know what you'd be interested in hearing about in future posts by commenting in the comment box below :) 

Get sharing and good luck!

 

Lots of love,

 

Harps and Arjun x

Our Festive Baby Announcement Ideas (Christmas 2013)

We decided to share the news with our parents and siblings straight away despite the GPs advice to not until three months had passed. We made the call to share the news with our families as we wanted them to be a part of our journey and if something were to go wrong, we would need their support anyway.

We shared the news with our immediate family by preparing a personalised save the date card with a message from their unborn grandchild/niece/nephew.  It was a cute idea and they were thrilled when they read the message.  They were extremely emotional that they were about to embark on a new journey of grandparenthood! Not only a new chapter in our lives but also in theirs - their babies were going to have a baby!  

 

 

We told the extended family once we'd had our three month scan and everything appeared to be ok. It coincided well with Christmas and we were able to share the news in a festive way.  

We told my side of the family via a picture message of Bruno with a sign on standing infront of the Christmas tree.  The reactions were hilarious - I did receive a few phone calls to ask whether Bruno was pregnant! Haha! (Bruno is a boy!).

We shared the news with Preetam’s side of the family on Boxing Day as we have an annual family gathering so thought it would be nicer to share the news face to face. I prepared home made crackers with a picture of baby's scan and a message to all plus random bits such as a dummy rock, a baby foot eraser and a baby bottle filled with jelly babies! We got the family to sit in a large circle and crack the crackers at the same time. It probably took about 60 seconds for the first person to figure it out! They too were super excited as this was going to be the first grandchild on that side of the family. 

I bought all the cracker fillers from amazon/eBay.  12 crackers cost me approximately £20 in total and I was super happy with how effective they were!

 

Our family and friends were over joyed for us and it all started to feel a lot more real!

Thanks for reading! I hope you are able to find some baby announcement inspiration from this post! :)

OMG WE'RE PREGNANT! (October 2013)

We'd recently returned from India and I was convinced my constant fatigue and dizziness was a combination of jet lag and a bug that I must have picked up.. Little did I know! 

After almost fainting at Sainsbury's and feeling repulsed by the smell of freshly baked cakes at work which would have once had me sucked right in, we decided it was a sensible idea for me to take a test. And BAM at 5am the next morning I did. We found out we were pregnant in mid October 2013. 
 

Excuse the picture quality!

 

Seeing the big blue cross when I checked the test result - I felt a mixture of emotions; surprise, excitement, panic, joy, anxious, nervous, fear, ecstatic! It was all so overwhelming and I was so shocked! My husband was cool as a cucumber in comparison!

I was over the moon that we were blessed enough to be given the opportunity to become parents but I was also terrified of embarking on the journey of motherhood and having a precious tiny little human dependent on me. Would I seriously be able to do it?! Well it was too late by then!! 

I called the GP that same morning who quickly deflated my excitement by telling me that things don't always end happily and to not get too excited. That set me off in to a panic frenzy. It soon went from self doubt and questioning myself to my maternal instinct kicking in and doing everything in my power to protect my little bean. 

I decided to keep a pregnancy journal to record my thoughts as I knew each day would be different and I felt it would be a way for me to communicate to my unborn child - even though he couldn't even see the journal let alone read it!! It gave me a sense of comfort. I would highly recommend it!