Welcome to #MaternityMondays week 8! Thanks so much to everyone linking up, last week was my turn to host and I really enjoyed reading everyone’s posts!

Emma is hosting this week ao she will be doing the commenting and sharing but you can still link up below!

There was so many lovely baby bump updates, I love reading them all and watching everyone’s pregnancy progress, it is so lovely to think we will be reading up to birth and beyond when these lovely little people enter the world! Aside from the bump updates (which I just couldn’t choose between) I had a few favourites from last week.

There was a fascinating post from 23 weeks socks about working in the NICU and the challenges this presents when you are pregnant. Really interesting post and well worth a read.

Steps with Sarah shared some lovely advice for new mums – I think we would all agree that no matter how prepared you think you, having a baby is a real shock to the system and lovely advice like this would really help new mums!

On a slightly lighter note I also loved El and Baby A‘s list of baby items that multi-purpose as beauty products, this was absolutely genius and every mummy should read!

It’s been a bit of a week here with LM teething, hubs getting a flu like bug, me heading to London on Saturday night to catch up with some friends and now Monkey has caught Daddy’s bug, Quite a few ups and downs for us but Sunday was a lovely chilled day having lots of snuggles with our poorly boy and all of us mooching about in pjs and jogging bottoms, a real rarity so silver linings to everything and I am sure Monkey will be on the mend soon.

This weekend our Little Miss turned 4 months so I am sharing a little update post with you all about how she is getting on 🙂

Now it is over to you! Please grab our badge and share the linky love by commenting on a few other blog posts, it would be lovely if we could grow a little community to share the highs and lows of motherhood and parenting.

The linky is open Mondays only from 6.30am to midnight.

Don’t forget to tweet your link using #MaternityMondays, and if you tag us in we will retweet, we are @EmmaLander2 and @BecomingaSAHM

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