DIY Baby Neck Pillow (Strollers, Carseats)

I was tired of my babies head drooping down so I decided to make him a neck pillow.



I enlarged the pattern to make one for video purposes. Enjoy!

Welcoming William (Our Newest Addition to our Family)

My previous post was about his birth, here is the after!



Once my little man came, it felt like everything changed. Since he's been born I have been told I am different with him then I was with the girls. I don't see this! I am doing things different with him then I did the girls I know. We are doing cloth diapers, I am trying to breast feed (still trying here were at 5 weeks) and a lot of his stuff is made by me.



I said with this baby I didn't want to do the 'new parent' thing where you go crazy and spend a lot of money. As you have seen in my prior posts 'baby on a budget' is my attempt this time. So far so good.



Question for you, did you find yourself treating one sex different as an infant then the other?

DIY - How to make a pocket burp cloth

This is more for a gift then on a budget, but an easy way to make this on a budge is to take a towel you already own and a receiving blanket you like and if you want some ribbon, ribbon isn't needed. Follow these instructions and you have an awesome pockey burp cloth.



We have been using ours for amonth now and love them. We still use the good old receiving blanket, but our baby tends to throw up quite a bit, he is still getting used to the let down and the fast flow, so these are great for him. They are super absorbant!!

DIY - How to make your own Baby Wash Cloths

These are not the wipes I made for bum changes but the cloths I made for bath time and clean up faces ect. I choose this one sided terry cloth for this project. It was super cheap, mainly cause I had the fabric already, and easy to make. You can choose to make them any size you prefer, but I went with the standard size. If you want to buy this fabric check your local fabric store, I normally find it in the ends bin for pretty cheap.

How to make you own Baby Wipe Solution

So I haven't shared how I made my baby wipes here but I will share soon.

1 tbsp. no rinse Baby Wash

1 tbsp. Coconut Oil

1 cup of warm to hot water

mix all ingredients together and pour over wipes in wipe warmer.



Please note because coconut oil goes soild it needs to stay warm or be used quickly. It can not be used in a spray bottle.



We have been using this for the past month and even the hubby says he prefers cloth wipes over disposable now. He made the comment with disposable he would use 3 to 6 a change for dirty bum changes and with cloth he ends up using 1 to possibly 2.



I will do a post later about how I laundry these. It is super simple and no my wipes are not all stained up they are amazing clean.

Our Baby is here!!

Well as some of you know we were expecting a new baby. We didn't know what we were having.

WE HAD A BOY!!

Our 4th child but our 1st boy. When they showed me he was a boy, I was filled with joy but fear as well. He is now a month old and is doing amazing. The first couple weeks I was still in awe that I have a boy and did A LOT of reading about baby boys. I learned so much in such a little amount of time. I am still learning, but feel more confident with having a boy now. It is a big change for me as the last boy diaper I changed was my little cousin Tyler which was more then 10 years ago. Most of my friends had girls too, so never needed to change a boys bottom.

Anyways, as some of you have asked how the delivery was I thought I'd share a little.

We were due on the the Tuesday and everyone kept telling me baby is coming soon. On Wednesday my work invited me to the secretary dinner and my boss informed me I was going to go in labour on Thursday. I laughed and told her. 'I don't think so it will happen by induction I bet'. So Thursday day hubby took me to lunch and didn't let me do a lot of sitting around that day. I was trying to finish up some spring dresses my girls had requested. When they home from school we said we'd take them to the park so they could ride their bikes. We walked over to their school park and let them play, our middle one neede to go pee so Daddy left me alone at the park with the other two and took her home to go pee. Right when he left I felt a tummy pain, which I ignored as just having to got to the bathroom pain, then just as I saw him returning (about 15 minutes later) I got another tummy pain, but this one more so. I told him about them and we told the girls 15 more minutes then we neto go home. I proceeded to walk to the other climber, which my youngest had run to, when I felt a pull in my lower stomac. I froze, must of shown a face cause hubby came running to me asking if I was okay. I reassured him I was fine just a weird feeling. then I took a step, felt a little wet, and said, " I think I peed myself a little" he laughed and said "okay, we will go home so you can change." Instantly it gushed out. I never had a pregnancy where my water broke fully. I said, "Um nope my water broke, yep my water broke, im soaked, we need to go home" He gathered the girls as I started the walk home, with soaking wet pants and shoes, leaving little feet trails as I walk.

I knew I wasn't having contraction and didn't need any medication or anything but still wanted to go to hospital to make sure everything was okay. We went, they didn't believe me that my water broke, until they did test. My contractions were inconsistent and said I they were to busy to move my labour along so wanted me to wait till it had been 12 hours since water broke. I was fine with that and went home. Layed in bed while hubby got lunches and school bags together for kids for their grandmother to get them to school in the morning. By the middle of the night I had to go to the bathroom and that's when it started. I new I was having contractions but didn't tell hubby. He started checking on me and timing them. Being the pain that I am I didn't tell him everytime I had one. I wanted to wait till I felt they were strong enough to in to the hospital. I called hospital when I felt they were close enough and they told me to come on down.

The trip from the car to the hospital bed took a while as I wanted to walk up. I remember telling hubby how nervous I was to go into labour again. It has been 5 years since last child. He reassured me that I was a pro at it and would do great, he had no worries. When we got to labour and delivery he told them the information. The nurse didn't believe I was in labour that close cause I was walking but said they'd check me out and see. Sure enough I was having major contractions, she couldn't believe I wasn't screaming or saying anything and still walking around. She had a resident check to see how far I was, which was 5 cm. So they moved me into a delivery room. It was only a couple hours later and he was born.

I don't remember a lot of the time as I just focused on breathing through contractions and stay relaxed. I think my favourite thing was opening my eyes to see hubby falling asleep and telling him to wake up and then the next time I saw him falling asleep my body threw up on him. The one nurse was making me drink water constantly so I wasn't dehydrated. well it went all of daddy to be. I kept apologizing to him, as I didn't mean to, and he said, "stop apologizing, I get the hint, don't fall asleep"

Anyways that's my labour story. I was longest time in labour out of the 4, but the hard labour was only about 20 minutes. It was all worth it to have my little boy now!!