Child's Farm

In one of the many baby events that I shopped in during pregnancy I stocked up on a well known brand of baby bath products. I won't mention names but it is THE brand that springs to mind when you think baby products.

There was daytime bath, night-time bath, lotion, talc, shampoo and nappy cream, all of which I received samples of during pregnancy too, my cupboard was well stocked!

During a routine health visitor check I asked for rash advice as my son had struggled with mystery rashes from a very young age. The health visitor immediately told me what brand I'd been using.

"Its awful stuff" were her exact words as it was too harsh for babies skin.

I was mortified, wasn't this what everybody used?!

I then tried a few different brands (with extreme caution) fragrance free and all that jazz, and then my friend introduced me to Child's Farm.

She'd become an ambassador for them and gave me a sample of tangerine bubble bath.

I literally wanted to eat the bubbles! The smell was so amazing, my husband and I fought over who was getting in with my son! And as it's hypoallergenic and designed especially for sensitive skin, no rash either!

Child's Farm do an amazing range, even sun cream (my husband even took our sun cream samples in his bag a charity golf day!) My absolute favourite has to be the baby oil, it smells of holidays and doesn't leave your skin greasy at all. (I say this from personal experience because I've been so busy getting the hubby to rub my shoulders with it that it is yet to be used on my son!!)

I was so impressed that I became an ambassador for them myself and get to share free samples with my other mummy friends (we recently got their new baby range to try and its lovely too)

If you would like to try Childs Farm please visit their website I have a lovely 30% off code for you, just enter CFAMB145 at the checkout!

Quick Disclaimer: Childs Farm have not asked me to write this post, nor am I paid to be an ambassador! I just really like the products!

Easy labour

A fellow c section mummy informed me she'd been told that she'd had it easy and not had a real birth because her baby was born by c section. It's played on my mind for some time so I wrote this in response...

Don't tell me I've had it easy. 

You suffered contractions and pain for hours at a time. You pushed a human out of your body, you were tested to your absolute limits I understand.

But don't tell me I had it easy.

After 32 hours of labour, the terrifying 4 and a half hour wait to go down to theatre was not easy. 

Lying flat on a cold operating table surrounded by a masked medical team. Feeling somebody's hands inside you, pushing, pulling and tugging was not easy. 

Hearing a baby cry, from behind a screen was simultaneously the best and worst experience of my life. I wanted to jump off the table and grab him.

Seeing him put into my husbands arms instead of mine was not easy. 

The wait for the surgeon to put my bladder and bowel back in and stitch the seven layers of muscle back up so I could finally hold him was not easy. 

Holding him was easy, snuggling his tiny body on my chest was easy, natural, wonderful. 

Trying to breast feed was not easy, but I believe it's not easy for most of us. 

When your baby cried in the night you were sore and possibly bearing stitches. But I bet you got to your child a hell of a lot faster than I got to mine. That was most certainly not easy. 

Dragging my swollen sausage stump legs out of bed was not easy, I had to use both hands to pick a leg up most days. 

The 45 blood thinning injections were also not easy. The sepsis that nearly killed me was definitely not fun. 

I envied the ladies who had natural births, they seemed to stroll back from the labour ward and with proud looks on their faces. But guess what? I did not tell them they'd had it easy because I don't believe it ever is.