Mother's group

Ollie and I have been attending the mother's group at our local child health centre for the last three weeks. There are about nine other mums from the neighbourhood with their bubs who are all about the same age as Ollie.

So far we have learnt about sleep settling techniques (a topic to which everyone paid a great deal of attention) and moving onto solid foods, but most of the time is just spent chatting about the babies and what we have experienced during the week. It is reassuring to know that everyone else is going through the same issues and interesting to hear how different people are dealing with things.

Everyone is really lovely and we hope to continue to meet as a group once the classes finish. I suspect that like me, most people only really went to the class in with a view to meeting other mums.

Like most of the babies, Ollie's favourite part of the class is at the end when we sing along to a DVD of nursery rhymes. Today Olliebear gave me lots of smiles during this time, especially during "Gurumph went the little green frog". He always comes home super tired and sleeps for a few hours. I on the other hand find my mind racing with the lyrics to the nursery rhymes until quite late in the night.

Today we had a photo taken of the babies who were there today. Ollie is in the red outfit (his head looks HUGE next to the baby beside him). Unfortunately Olliebear had just had a massive spew all down the front of his outfit. I think this was the first time in all of our classes that not one of the babies was crying. It didn't last too long after the photo was taken with each baby cracking it one by one - of course Ollie was one of the first to cry.