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Baby Bite #9

A DAY from hell. Charlotte woke at 1am with fever and cold. Crying, vomiting, sneezing and coughing - I had it all.Read

Simply Charlotte: Let's skip the crawling bit

Charlotte has reached all her milestones except for crawling.Read

Simply Charlotte: Contact! We are not alone

Today was the day Charlotte and I got back out there, in the mix, and visited a children's centre for Busy Babies Group.Read

Baby Bite #8

You leave it three minutes after 9.30 opening of Ickenham clinic and you are already number 15 in the queue.Read

Simply Charlotte: Nodding off after weighty matters

What a palava to get Charlotte weighed at the drop in centre. Could not find a car park space so had to park about five minutes away which cost 20p for one hour.Read

Baby Bite #7

For the first time in a long while the Charlotte alarm has gone off. There is no way I am playing peek-a-boo at 4am.Read

Simply Charlotte: Here we go again!

AS PROMISED before Easter, our big news: Helen is pregnant again with our second baby and, yes, it was planned.Read

Simply Charlotte: Baby Bite #6

HOW can two days be so different ? Yesterday Charlotte woke up early, clingy and miserable.Read

Simply Charlotte: The time in our house is always 'tooth hurty'.

A TOOTH, a tooth, my kingdom for a tooth. When will this first 'little piggy' arrive? Read

Simply Charlotte: Baby Bite # 5

Charlotte is feeding well and not just banana.Read

Simply Charlotte: Technology goes bump in a sleepless night

It was 4am and I am awoken by Lady C. For the last couple of nights she has been sleeping through but not tonight.Read

Simply Charlotte: Big bro James, my new secret weapon

Lady C was very excited as big brother James came to visit for part of his half term holidays.Read

Simply Charlotte: In sickness and in health - but mainly sickness

CHARLOTTE decided to have a cold and a teething bout last weekend, particularly on the Sunday.Read

Simply Charlotte: One from the mum

Long before I started a family I always worried about what sort of mother I would be and how I would be able to manage my feelings for wanting children and my desire to work.Read

Simply Charlotte: On night manoeuvres with the girls

It is 4am and I am awake. Charlotte on the other hand is asleep.Read

Simply Charlotte: Baby Bite # 4

Charlotte is now demolishing a whole banana and porridge for breakfast.Read

Simply Charlotte: Less of the baby, but no less of the banana

IT WAS 5:08am, Charlotte went right through from 6pm til 4.45 and is now changed and fed. I must be doing something right but it is very disheartening when she won't eat her meat and veggies. Read

Simply Charlotte: Fishtanks good and swimming better. Is my daughter a mermaid?

After a 2am wake up call from HRH the night before, I have to change tactics to get her clickety clack and back on track and sleep through.Read

Simply Charlotte: Baby Bite # 3

Me and Charlotte went for a walk in the snow at Ruislip Lido. Read

Simply Charlotte: A poo in the hand is worth two in the boot

CHARLOTTE and I leave at 11am to fetch our family photo from the photographer's in Chorleywood. We had won a session at an NCT course but it still cost us a lot of money.Read