Shortly after bringing our girls home from hospital after their extended stay due to being born early, I started to look into local baby and toddler groups. There seemed to be quite a few of them around, but it would be another 7 months before I managed to pluck up the courage to actually go…
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Girls Night Out
Read moreI wrote a post not long ago which was a little update on the play dates I’ve been having. If you haven’t read that post you can find it here. In short the play dates have been going well. I’m so glad that we ditched play group in favour of them and I think R…
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Bye bye play group! Hello play date!
Read moreA little while ago I wrote about how I felt lonely at one particular play group. We go to a few groups over the course of the week. Since my last post I have had two ‘play dates’ with another mum in our homes. We both went to the play group mentioned above, but both found…
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Is it irresponsible to take your child to play group when they're ill?
Read moreUndoubtedly, the first time you ever take your baby to a mum and baby group the chances of them catching a cold are probably quite high. I remember the first time I took the girls to baby, a few days later they had both caught colds and from then on every other month they would have runny…
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Finding Mummy Friends (continued)
Read moreI wrote a post (click here to view) a while ago about how to make friends with other mums. I explained how I found it diffcult to find someone to chat with at baby group each week because most of the mums already knew each other. I would say hello and have a brief chat with…
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Finding Mummy Friends
Read moreBefore our twins were born I didn’t have many friends outside of work. I have my twin sister which is great but friends from school have all moved away or had families of their own and were too busy or too far away to socialise. Now that our twins are here and they’re almost 16…
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First Trip to Soft Play
Read moreI’ve wanted to take the girls to soft play for some time now but unfortunately the local leisure center changed the time of their soft play session from the morning to the afternoon which meant we couldn’t go as it’s during our girls nap time. It took me a little while of searching online but…
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Knowing what I know now….
Read moreHindsight is a wonderful thing! Knowing what I know now about being a twin parent, I thought I would share with you what I would do differently if I could start again! * Put our girls in the same moses basket/cot for naps and bedtime. This is so they get used to each others noise…
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Back To Baby Group – Get it out of your mouth!
Read moreIt’s probably been a good month since I have been to baby group. The main reason I haven’t taken the girls for a while is because they were ill. The first time I took our girls to baby group was Thursday, September 27th. Read more about our first time here. Just over a week after…