As a newlywed (many, many years ago now) one of the best Christmas presents I received was a one year subscription to my favourite cooking magazine. It really is the present that just keeps giving! Each month you receive your favourite magazine before it hits newstands and I don't need to tell my busy mummy readers how nice it is to sit down with a magazine and a cup of coffee and take some time out. Let the kids run around you like crazy but we all need a little time out.
So the nice people at magshop sent me the latest issue of Mother & Baby since, well you know, I did just have a baby. And I didn't really know how much I'd learn from the magazine since I've had 4 babies in 4 years and don't buy baby magazines anymore. But, I've got to say I really enjoyed reading it and especially the story of a mummy who had 3 under 3. She was describing perfectly what life was like once those newborn twinnies come home to live with you. Oh the memories, here is a little of what she wrote..........
'Nights were worst. I'd feed the girls at 11pm, burp them and put them to bed, only to have the first baby wailing at 2.30am, the second baby an hour later. By the time the second baby was sleeping, the first one would be up again. An hour later they'd both be awake, in need of a feed and nappy change.'
my twinnies as babies
Yes, yes, yes that was my life! I read the whole article nodding my head in agreement and all the memories came back.....ahhh those sweet, sweet memories of yelling at the top of my voice from upstairs for retro daddy to hurry up with the bottles! Thankfully, we are so much nicer to each other now.
best buddies from the early days
The magazine was full of articles on pregnancy, birth, the latest baby equipment (and a great range of prices, not just the super expensive stuff which you don't buy for baby 4), parenting, an excellent gift guide for the little people which has given me a few ideas as well as lots of reader stories. A perfect read if you're pregnant or a new mummy.
And you can win one of 3 subscriptions to any of the magazines in magshop just by telling me your funniest memory is of being pregnant or a new mummy. Mine was when my sweet first born keira was in the hospital, she looked so perfectly angelic. I was changing her nappy and experienced my first pooplosion right onto my dressing gown. I couldn't believe that my sweet little bundle of chubby had just done that all over my cream dressing gown! So tell me your funniest memory and don't forget to leave your email address in your answer. Magshop is not responsible for the promotion offered by Nuffnang Australia and you should read the conditions on www.nuffnang.com.au.
Plus magshop are also running their own promotion, subscribe now to any title and you could win one of 10 trips for two to discover Hawaii. Each price is worth over $10,000. Oooohhhh nice, I could do with a trip to hawaii right now. Plus there are loads of great titles to subscribe to including Mother & Baby, AWW, House & Garden, Australian Good Food, Gourmet Traveller to name a few. The perfect present this Christmas.
I can't enter since I'm in the UK, but thought I would share my funniest memory.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter was a very refluxy baby. My husband is a very umm...boistrous daddy. Cue him waving a just fed Madeline around in the air squealing at her. They were both having a fab time until Madeline vomited her entire feed into his mouth. I didn't know whether to cry with laughter and cry at the fact that my body had spent hours producing that milk for him to make her sick it up in his mouth. What a waste! :D
He's still won't wave a baby around in the air, he's scarred for life!
I so love those pics of the twins as babies. You must be breezing through the newborn days with Elodie now that there's just one to deal with again :-)
ReplyDeleteMy funniest memory of my first born, my son Finn, is when my husband was changing his nappy at the change table. Hubby took Finn's nappy off and bent over to get a new nappy from the shelf below. While doing this, Finn decided to wee, as boys do. The wee wee shot up into the air and trickled in a steady stream right down hubby's bottom crack. What a warm surprise! Hubby needed his 'nappy' changed after that too!
ReplyDeletenot sure this was funny for me, more like embarrassing... but probably funny for those around me...
ReplyDeletei remember being at the shopping centre with my little one when he was a little baby... he was in the pram and started to really cry...
well, i managed to settle him down, but withought me knowing it, my breast pads had leaked... i walked around and finished my shopping with 2 enormous wet patches either side of my shirt...
To many funny ones to write about...this is more embarrassing - I would have to say...forgetting to button up my shirt after a feed in the DJ'S parent room. It was my first visit to the shops/parent room with a new born and it was all a little overwhelming. Thank goodness the DJ'S sales assistant quickly clued me into my shirt situation! Looking back it really is so funny...and clumsy of me!
ReplyDeleteOne of my funniest moments as a brand new mum was when I was trying to breast feed Alexander in hospital (which never ended up working as I had absolutely no supply) and my husband came in from collecting some stuff at home and saw me on the breast milk pump and all he could say was "moo" - this would be offensive to some but to us it was funny because he grew up on a dairy farm and I had been having so much trouble since day one with the midwives not understanding that there was no supply,they kept on insisting that breast was best (which I agree is correct, but not if you can't)- that this was the last straw for him and he knew it would make us both laugh it off. We giggled for about ten minutes straight and it definately made us both feel sooooo much better!
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ReplyDeletewhen i was pregnant with the fatman, now 6 months old, i did seem to be putting on a bit of weight.... at one of my appointments the midwife suggested i should try "one of those biggest looser type diets". the cheek of her!! i was pregnant and i needed chocolate! i was so indignant about it and came home to tell my bloke how cheeky the midwife was, and he said "well honey......"
bahahaha its funny now cos i lost most of that 30kg in the first month; and i sooooo wasnt that big!!!
my blog is: http://bubbaandthefatman.blogspot.com/
OH i used to write for Mother & Baby magazine in 2003/2004, they wanted someone NOT having their first baby, i qualified as i was having my 4th in 4 years. I had a dream run, they all slept 12 hours over night from 3 weeks, so pretty sure they ended it there as no one wants to read that??!!
ReplyDeleteNo need to enter me, my eldest is hitting high school now, love Posie
My funniest memory of being pregnant is very recent - from last week-end. I am six months pregnant with baby number three. My four year old daughter had drawn a picture of her family. I was depicted as a very large round circle on legs out in the garden. When I asked her where everyone else was as she normally draws the whole family she explained that Dad was in the very narrow house at the edge of the picture with her and her brother as "mummy was too big, and there was no room for anyone else in the garden". Imagine what her drawings will show when I get to nine months!
ReplyDeleteI have been trying to think if something for the last 2 hrs....I had postnatal depression with son no.1 and had to go on medication, and with son no.2 I had it again but only mildly.
ReplyDeleteMy most recent memory is more cute than funny. Ty is 5 and loves "the wheels on the bus/truck/execavator" he makes it up as he sings and Blake who is 2 trys really hard to do the actions and sing along. It is too cute for words!
I was so out of it after I had my first baby. A week or so after he was born I had to change his entire outfit during a nappy change (big, huge leak through everything wee) and when I was finished, got up to get rid of the dirty clothes and nappy.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't until a couple of hours later when I went to put something in the rubbish bin that I realised there were a heap of clothes sitting in there....went to the washing machine only to find I had put the nappy in the machine AND washed a load! YUCK!!! I had put the clothes in the bin and the nappy in the machine...
Thank goodness it was just a wee...
My mother had three in two years and nine months and I'm the middle one! She then waited another four years before having my youngest brother. Wise decision!
ReplyDeleteMy "funny" story about pregnancy concerns the frequent need to wee (well, use the bathroom). I worked in Sydney city when pregnant, right in George Street and near the shops, and during lunch hour, would go shopping in Myers or other shops, and needing to empty my bladder, went to the bathroom at Myers. The smells in the bathroom as I sat in my cubicle were so vile, I vomited all over myself, my long woollen black jacket (middle of winter) and then had to walk back to my office (vomit everywhere and smelling divine) and tell my boss, who then was very nice and paid for a taxi home for me. Oh, the joys of pregnancy. I have two children. There is a reason. Perk.
My funniest story is with my first child. He was only 8 weeks old. We went to visit my Nan and I forgot to take the nappie bag! Of course we didn't realise until we needed to change his nappie and had none. My Nan was very excited to come to the rescue with an incontinence pad! The sight of my tiny baby wearing that pad was priceless! He is 16 now - I still havn't told him that story!
ReplyDeleteHaving a mental blank about my funniest moments with a newborn (they were usually those 'laugh or you will cry' moments. I take my hat off to anyone who has twins, well done!!
ReplyDeleteRecently I was running my daughter's bath while she was playing in her room. When I went to grab her, I could hear crying but couldn't work out where she was - until I saw a tiny face peering out amongst all the stuffed animals in her toy tub - she must have fallen in and had no way of knowing how to get out again :)
ReplyDeleteWe took our son on a holiday to New Zealand when he was 3 months old in May (freezing cold!). We'd stopped for lunch at a dodgy coffee shop in the middle of a long day of driving. After we'd eaten, I asked my husband to change bub's nappy while I went to the toilet (which was a public toilet down the street).
ReplyDeleteAs I came through the door, I heard my son screaming. My husband was holding him up completely naked, with a horrified look on his face. My son had had a massive poo-plosion, and then my husband had run out of wipes. The ladies running the shop came to his aid with napkins.
The funniest thing was I asked my husband to restock the wipes container before we hit the road, and he said "No, we've got plenty!".
Corrie - goodness! You're not far behind us! 4 in 4 years, yes? Your children are beautiful, and you are one talented (busy) woman! Here's a laugh for you. A few days ago I fed my boys breakfast, went to change them out of their jamies, and one of my boys felt wet. Hmmm... maybe the diaper leaked. I unzipped his footies and... no diaper! I searched both legs - maybe it slipped down - nothing! I did NOT put a diaper on him when I got him ready for bed the night before. I put one on his brother, but yep - zipped this little guy right up and didn't even notice! It has to be a twin thing, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteThe first night after giving birth to my eldest daughter I was asleep but could hear a crying baby and couldn't understand why noone was attending to the baby to make it stop crying...wasn't until the midwife woke me to tell me that the crying baby was my baby and she needed feeding...lol..
ReplyDeletejust clicked onto your blog! and that is the most gorgeous banner ever! I love it. We have the same little people nativity scene too and I am going to keep it forever! Hopefully my grandkids can enjoy it too! Love the Banner.
ReplyDeleteIn the middle of a stinking hot night last summer I was changing my newborn's nappy when she had a massive poo explosion all over my pyjamas. I still had to feed her, so I just stripped off the poo-y pyjamas and fed her in my knickers and bra. Walking back to her bedroom I had her over my shoulder trying to burp her when she vomited all down my bare back! Thanks baby!
ReplyDeleteLove your baby pics! We are due with our second in 4 weeks. Back to the night feeds oh dear I really don't miss them!
ReplyDeleteMy story is only recently with our little girl who is a toddler. She was restless so I popped her into bed with us and she hadn't been there long and she vomited through the bed so I changed everything and then she feel asleep finally next to me, she then had a huge leak out of her nappy and the bed was wet in the morning, so I had to change her and all the sheets again, she didn't sleep in my bed the next night and the washing machine was going like crazy the next day, phew learnt my lesson, my Mum thought it was very funny!
Don't ever tell my twins but even though they are a boy and a girl and were over 500gr apart at birth I do have some 'early days' photo's and I don't know which twin it is!
ReplyDeletemy funniest was when I used cloth nappies for the first time on my third baby.. we went out and I um..forgot a nappy bag..(seriously ! how could that happen, I used to take half the house with the first baby and hours to get ready!).. and while visiting a friend she had a poop explosion right out the sides and straight into my lap... lovely...
ReplyDeletedont enter me, just wanted to join in the reminiscing... I have too many funny/embarassing stories..
I'm not a mummy...but I lived with my sister when she had her two. The funniest (although I didn't think it was that funny at the time) was the night my baby niece went on a vomit fest..vomited in her cot and then my sisters bed. They at 3am they both came into my bed and she vomited again. Gross! We all ended up sleeping in the lounge on mattresses.
ReplyDeletethe funniest thing would have to be when bubs and I were driving up the coast ( my sis and her new boyfriend behind me) and bubs just started screaming, I was on the highway and couldn't pull over straight away so 20min later I pulled over , grabbed bubs and OMG POO EVERYWHERE!! My sis and her new man pull up to see me holding bubs at arms length..Im covered in poo, shes covered, car seat is covered. Layed bubs down in back of sis's ute cleaned her up whilst sis is cleaning me up whilest sis's bf is cleaning the car seat! had to laugh and needless to say I dont think those two will be announcing a pregnancy anytime soon lol
ReplyDeleteWhen my sister was getting married, Callum was just 10 days old. Of course we were runnng late and Matt when to change Callum before the big event, while I caught up with my sister. As soon as that nappy was off, Callum shot out a big newborn poo and covered Matt's "good" pants. He was cautious changing nappies from that point, and didn't smell that fresh at the wedding either ..
ReplyDeleteI don'tknow about funny but embarrassing!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe had friends coming to visit, not close friends but the distant type that you don't see all that often or know all that well really. I had just had my first bubba and suffering from a case of severe sleep deprivation (well so I thought!) and decided that I would give her a quick feed on the couch before they arrived.
Sure enought they arrived! Only I didn't hear them! I was fast asleep, sitting up on the couch with baby snoozinginmy arms and my boob just hanging ot for all to see! They knocked on the front glass doors a couple of times (they being the two men), noticed my boob and bck peddled pretty quickly to the car! I woke up (what I am hoping was only seconds later!!!) noticed them at the door, wavedand then looked down to see my boob waving at them too! Total embarrassment on everyone's behalf! To this day I am not sure what they thik of me and my boob or really how long they waited for me to wake up outside the house! Mother shame at it's finest!!!
Hmmm I don't have any funny stories yet. Can I have 15 more weeks? :o) I'd love to win!!!
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After having my first bub I went into work to show off my precious bundle of joy. He had lots of cuddles with the girls in the office before sitting down and having a good feed to settle. Our final stop was the office of the big boss who wanted to talk to me about when I was coming back to work. I handed him the baby and sat down ready to start the rather difficult conversation - no sooner than I sat down and my son did the biggest poo of his entire two week life! It went straight through the nappy & grow suit and onto his pristine white business shirt!! As he stood up in absolute horror the fast movement must have been too much for my little Izaak because he then proceeded to vomit his entire feed all over my boss!! The girls in the office, watching through the window, were in histerics and I was trying desperately hard to keep a straight face. Izaak really showed him what he thought of mumma going back to work all right!!
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well I am not a mum but I hope this entry is still valid?
ReplyDeletemy funniest memory of my sister's early days as a mummy is one day when we were hanging out together, she feeling a bout of the baby blues with a baby who didn't sleep but preferred to scream and didn't like being cuddle tightly and who was not the best at breast feeding either. Trying to be a supportive sister I asked her how feeding was going and she revealed to me ' well I feel a bit like a cow' only to have me reply 'well you kind of are!' - not my best sister moment but thank goodness she could see the funny side of it despite her emotional fragility!
thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Our precious son was only 24 hours old and dressed in a beautiful, pristine white all-in-one when his Pediatrician came to visit. The moment the Dr opened the nappy up Micah's bowels opened as well...all over his gorgeous white outfit and all over the doctor's hands (thankfully not on HIS clothes, too!).
ReplyDeleteMy funniest memory of being pregnant would be with my second. I was in a lift when a man got in and asked me to breathe in! Humm - I was standing with my back against him and my tummy was leaning (pressed hard) against the pram - I turned and said "Sorry mate"
ReplyDeleteI would say my last baby was the funniest, my husband never handled any of it that well, but I was well ready to have my baby and I had gotten up to go to the toilet and had just come back to bed and sort of flopped down, there was a kind of a pop and then an onslaught of flooding waters. My husband woke up horrified refused to come any where near me in case he got "that" water on him and then proceeded to run around for half an hour in a panic because he was worried I would stain the carpet. As if there wasnt more important things to be concerned with than the carpet at that precise point...lol
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Not quite a baby story, but a friend came to visit to me and new first baby, and brought a plant for the garden as well as gift for newborn, unfortunately our rather ill-mannered dog, decided he liked the look of the large plant, and decided to cock his leg on the plant and my friend's leg as my friend ws walking up the path. Husband was watching and nearly wetting himself. Was a funny memory of being home with new baby.
ReplyDeletethought I'd add to the poo-plosion stories ...
ReplyDeletenot long after we had returned home from hospital, my husband was changing our daughter Lia and, it would become obvious that he had little regard for all the advice we had received, particularly to always have a clean nappy at the ready.
There was a loud "shout" and, on investigation, I discovered the brand new OFF-WHITE carpet covered in a shower of poo ... and my husband,congratulating himself that he had managed to get out of the way and not get any on his old and manky t-shirt :(