Now don’t get me wrong, Master Menzies is only 11 weeks old so we are still in the ‘Early Days’ but I mean the early, early days. Those days where you have only just left the hospital and you are breathing a sigh of relief that you have kept this new little person alive for a whole week. Most of that week you were in hospital with the help of people who know what they are doing more than you do, but your baby is still breathing after a week. I know I checked if Master Menzies was breathing every 5 minutes, and yes he was breathing… every time I checked.

This is the time when your whole world changes. Everything changes. Your feelings towards this new little person you have brought into the world are indescribable. You will have an enormous sense of protection over this person. I can clearly remember when I fell in love with Master Menzies and felt that overwhelming sense of protection. It was as he was being yanked out of me with forceps by a pocket rocket of an obstetrician. I hadn’t even laid eyes on the little man I was was taken. Taken by his presence, taken by the responsibility of being a mother, taken by him.

Having people come and go from the hospital and then at home kind of pissed me off. My husband and I did not communicate too well and there were times when we had both told different sets of people to come over, at the same time, which meant a house full of people and an overstimulated baby. My advice is, sort your diary out. You and your partner are a team in raising this little person, communication was the first lesson I learnt.

In the early days don’t expect to know everything, or anything. My friends who had kids all seemed to know exactly what their child needed or wanted. I had no idea. None at all. It wasn’t until Mackie was 8 weeks old that I managed to have a whole day where I thought I’d read all of Master Menzies’ cues and then they changed the next day.

My advice to new mummies in the early, early days. Team up with your partner and be kind to yourselves, make sure you have time together as a new, wonderful family and block out whatever you want to. Don’t worry about anyone else wants you need to bond a a family.