Last Christmas
with an overdue baby only a week old on Christmas day the images of baby’s first Christmas that had played in my head in the run up to his birth were far from reality. Instead of the glow of Christmas and new birth it was a time of nerves, a tiredness I have never before experienced and of solitary breast feeding between courses at Christmas dinner. In all this, we were still in awe of the tiny, perfect, new person who had joined our family and still are. We started off breast feeding and when it came time to try solids were eager to stick with pure and wholesome home made purees to keep him as perfect as when he arrived. This Christmas I am looking forward to a different type of Christmas. Baby will have just turned one and although he won’t know who Santa is yet he is well aware of the excitement that is a new toy, sparkly lights or a new food to taste. As part of the normal preparations for Christmas day we will have a new challenge, baby’s first Christmas with solid food.
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