With my parental experience so far, what piece of good advice would I give to a new mum? The main information would be that they should never allow their babies to fall asleep while eating. Always follow the rule: eat first, sleep later.

Unfortunately Yannick never learned this. As he wasn't putting on a lot of weight at the beginning I was going by my midwife's advice to feed him at every possible opportunity. As newborns fall asleep easily while nursing this became a habit. Even now, quite often he thinks eating means sleeping. And sleeping definitely means eating first. When I put him to bed I have to nurse him, he will not fall asleep any other way. If he wakes up at night I have to nurse him, or all hell will be loose. The good news is that our son hardly ever stays up for long during the night. After 10 minutes of nursing he's usually fast asleep again. But as he still has to learn to sleep for longer stretches, I have to nurse him anything between 6 to 12 times per night. Aaaah, sleep, what's that???

Hey, where's that remote?

As much as I hate putting pictures of Yannick into this category all the time, I couldn't stop myself from posting this one. He looks suspiciously like daddy in his arm chair…

Aaaargh, will this ever stop? In September we will move again, this time into a three bedroom house in Winchester. I am not looking forward to this experience whatsoever, as I will not be able to do much with Yannick at my hands. We have to move as we are only renting at the moment and I really want to get out of this house that has far too much mould for my liking.

We chose this house as it is nicely done up inside and the garden doesn't offer too much of a challenge currently either. Neither Frank nor myself are able to do a lot of work at the moment, so this is perfect for us. We would have liked four bedrooms but the Winchester area is quite expensive. So we had to make a trade, either a nice area or more space. Right in front of the house is a large green area with a play-ground that's just far enough away to not be a nuisance but close enough for Yannick to enjoy in a year's time or so.

The really good news is that we have some absolutely wonderful friends who will come over from Ireland to help us move. There are a few more people who might be able to help who live over here. We'll find out soon enough.