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Bipolar Mum and the Baby

Pregnancy, Motherhood and Mental Health Blog

  • 🖤 About me and Life Updates
    • Photo challenge – ‘I can’t live without…my phone’
    • Self Development = CAREER CHANGE
    • #ThrowbackThursday for photo challenge 📸
    • Thank god September is over 👋🏻
    • How can so much happen in a couple of weeks!?
    • Mum and Dad’s ‘day off’ #MumGuilt
    • Filling my house with Positive pictures
    • Happy 3️⃣5️⃣ Birthday
    • Reflection on my 34th Year
    • I’m scared what the future holds
    • Finally I can drive! 🚗
    • Life and Liberty Update – Confirmed Disestablishment of Post, Spice Girls and Liberty saying ‘Mama’
    • Life and Liberty Update – redundancy, fake weddings and bitchy mum drama!
    • New Tattoo and Hair = New Me
    • I need to start focusing on my dream – Be a full time ‘Mum’ Blogger 👩🏻‍💻
    • Liberty has 2 new cousins from the Skelton’s and the Hughes’s #AprilBabies
    • Happy Easter – Setting Easter Traditions and Liberty’s first photo shoot 📸
    • Blogging – Can I turn one of my passions into a business? 🤔
    • My Blog is celebrating it’s 1st Birthday 🥳 and Liberty sat up unaided 🙌🏻 #DoubleCelebrations
    • #SmearforSmear
    • Happy International Women’s Day 2019 💪🏻👩🏻
    • Hello March
    • Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
    • #10YearChallenge
    • #Bye2018 #Hello2019
    • We made it 2 years!
    • Happy Christmas from the Hughes 👨‍👩‍👧
    • It’s my birthday and I will cry if I want to!
    • #whereistheyeargoing
    • Don’t lower yourself to respond! My first experience with Twitter Trolls!
  • 🖤 Pregnancy Posts
    • 🖤 My Pregnancy and Labour Overview
      • Pregnancy Summary
      • Times up Liberty! – My Labour Story – PART ONE
      • ‘It’s Showtime’ and the aftermath – My Labour Story – PART TWO
      • 🖤 My Pregnancy Updates
        • Happy DUE Day!
        • WEEK 41 – Eviction Notice Issued for 07.09.18
        • Happy ‘full term’ day – 37 weeks today!
        • Sure Liberty will love that outfit Dave?! – Daddy’s first outfit purchase!
        • Happy Liberty Due Date Month! 🎉
        • #babyshowergoals
        • #SkoolsoutforSummer! Maternity Leave starts now!
        • Please stop hiding and let me see more of you – 4D baby scan round 2
        • Hello Liberty! BEST.BIRTHDAY.EVER
        • Living the dream using my husband as a servant!
        • Liberty’s Annoucement
    • 🖤 Pregnancy Help Guides
      • 🖤 Baby Movements
        • Don’t be afraid to call the Maternity Assessment Clinic if you have any problems!
        • Wow your bump is so big?! You are only 6 month!? Dealing with Liberty’s growth spurts – Physiotherapy Advice
        • Is that Liberty moving or just muscle pain? Baby movements in Pregnancy
      • 🖤 Perinatal Mental Health
        • Are you prepared? Physically ✅ Medically ✅ Mentally – ❌ – Overcoming my Fear and Mental Blocks – Open Letter to Liberty
        • You need to plan how to stay well before even thinking about how you want to give birth! – Intro to Perinatal Mental Health Services and other services
      • 🖤 Nursery Decoration
        • Rainbows, clouds and unicorns 🌈☁️🦄 – Decorating Liberty’s nursery – From idea to finished project
      • 🖤 Sober Socialising
        • Just because I’m pregnant, doesn’t mean I’m a boring B*!#h! Guide to Sober Socialising
      • 🖤 Birth Plans
        • WE HAVE A COMPLETE PLAN: The missing pieces to the mental health birth plan have been finalised (only taken 4 months) – Aftercare and Breastfeeding Plans
        • My Visual Birth Plan (sorry meant preference)
        • How am I going to get Liberty out? Planning for Labour using The Positive Birth Book by Milli Hill – PART 1
      • 🖤 Hospital Bag Preparation
        • The scariest packing that I have ever done – What to pack in your hospital bag
      • 🖤 Baby Moon Idea
        • Before candlelit dinners and ‘do not disturb’ turns into Bottle feed and Bedtime stories – Introduction to the trend of babymoons
  • 🖤 Baby Posts
    • 🖤 Baby Help Guides
      • 🖤 Breastfeeding, Expressing & Formula
        • My Breastfeeding/Expressing Experience and Recommendations 🤱🏻
      • 🖤 Sleep Training – TO FOLLOW
      • 🖤 Baby Development Milestones – TO FOLLOW
      • 🖤 Baby Jabs – TO FOLLOW
      • 🖤 Teething (TO FOLLOW)
      • 🖤 Weaning
        • Moving on to Stage 2 Weaning
        • First try of Finger foods!
        • Weaning Journey has commenced – First 2 weeks
        • I got the same feeling about buying this highchair as I do when I make Bobbi Brown purchases! #MumLife
        • Liberty’s first tastes – Carrot and first tastes plan – Week 1
        • Baby Rice take 2
        • Let’s try baby rice – Result: 😭
    • 🖤 Nursery
      • The great children’s drawings debate – what do you do with yours?
      • Liberty starts Nursery 😩
      • Hitting a low point 😔 no more maternity leave
      • There can’t only be only 1 month remaining?! 😭 – Changes to my return to work
    • 🖤 Liberty Updates
      • One Year Health Visitor Review = Positive feedback 🙌🏻
      • Happy 1st Birthday to my Queen! 👸🏻
      • Can’t believe my baby girl is 1️⃣ tomorrow 😱
      • Liberty’s First Shoes ✅
      • Liberty is 1️⃣1️⃣months today 😱
      • Video: MY BABY HAS FINALLY STARTED CRAWLING!
      • HAPPY 🔟 MONTHS to this absolute beaut!
      • Happy 1st Father’s Day to my baby daddy 👨‍👩‍👧
      • Liberty First Passport Application
      • My baby has her 2 bottom teeth
      • 9months in and 9 months out 🤰🏻➡️👶🏻
      • VIDEO: Liberty – Future Musician?
      • Happy 8️⃣ months Liberty – now it’s time to stop with the charts!
      • Liberty’s Christening- 05.05.19 💒
      • Christening preparations – I wasn’t this stressed planning my wedding 😩
      • Happy 7️⃣ Months Liberty
      • Finally Liberty is better! 🙌🏻
      • #MyPoorlyBaby
      • The great children’s drawings debate – what do you do with yours?
      • Just Me, Liberty and Pegga Pig – First Weekend Solo Parenting
      • Happy 6th Month Liberty – to celebrate get a tattoo to represent her! #GrandReveal
      • Liberty finally rolled over and I caught it on film! #proudmoment
      • Happy 5 months Liberty 🎉
      • Finally Found Liberty’s Christening Dress 🙌
      • What Liberty’s 1st Christmas was like
      • We made it to 12 weeks!
      • YAY! I kept a little person alive now for 8 weeks! Happy ‘8 weeks’ birthday Liberty!
      • My little ghost 👻 #happyhalloween
      • #capturingmemoriesonfilm
      • Welcome to the world Liberty Raven Hughes born 06.09.18
      • Hello September – Hello to be being one of the oldest in the school year Liberty!
  • 🖤 Mental Health Posts
    • #WorldMentalHealthDay
    • Wearing my ‘Mental Health Awareness’ ribbon with pride!
    • My mask is starting to crack!
    • Literally I’m going to lose my S*#t! – Mental Health Awareness Week Guide to Stress Management
    • You are NOT Alone! – Coronation Street’s suicide story raises awareness to male suicide
    • Can you imagine how many ex’s I have that think I’m a psycho!?! – Intro into relationships
    • I’m not CRAZY B*!#h (but I can be) – What you should know before dating someone with Bipolar
  • 🖤 Postnatal Mental Health
    • Hey Mama Club idea – plans to set up a local informal mums mental health group
    • I NEED to get it together! #StayPositive
    • New Tattoo and Hair = New Me
    • COMPETITION running on Instagram – Spa Day for a lucky mum! 🧖🏻‍♀️ #MumsMatter
    • ‘Mamas Talk Event – Inspiration Mums talking during Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week #MumsMatter
    • Happy Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 🤰🏻➡️👶🏻
    • Yet another label to add! #MentalHealthLabelling
    • From googling whether Anxiety can cause physically pain? Do I have GAD?!
    • So they think I’m going slightly manic and alittle OCD 🤔
    • I can’t stop the panic 😩
    • What Liberty’s 1st Christmas was like
    • Self Love & Lipstick – Mum and Baby group Session
    • I can’t stop the panic 😩
    • Just Me, Liberty and Pegga Pig – First Weekend Solo Parenting
    • The Struggle was real #BacktoWork
    • Feeling so alone today!
    • I need to learn to love my life!
    • There can’t only be only 1 month remaining?! 😭 – Changes to my return to work
    • #backtowork
  • 🖤 Health, Beauty And Fitness Posts
    • Never having the ‘just been dug up’ look – Preparing for changes in routines – Make up Routine
    • UPDATED: I’m literally sweating from every part of my body – Surviving Summer pregnant
    • 🖤 Post Baby Body
      • #HearMeRoar – The dress that changed my life!
      • Time to get serious getting back into shape!
      • Time to get rid of the ‘Mum Tum’
      • Fallen off the fitness wagon already – time to bring out the big guns 🏃🏻‍♀️ Three words – GREAT NORTH RUN
  • 🖤 Fashion Posts
    • 🖤 Pregnancy Fashion
      • That top is a little too tight now! What Maternity Clothing essentials do I need? 
  • 🖤 Recommendations
    • Using this forced ‘Me’ time to my advantage – Visit to Harrogate Turkish Baths 🧖🏻‍♀️
  • 🖤 Baby Groups and Activities
    • Baby Swimming Lessons – Waterbabies
    • Baby Massage and Yoga by Hazel
    • Things to do with your baby: Everyman Cinema Baby Club
    • MyLifePool
    • Baby Bells – Hartbeeps
  • Contact

Month: Sep 2019

How can so much happen in a couple of weeks!? Sep 14, 2019
Happy 1st Birthday to my Queen! 👸🏻 Sep 6, 2019
Can’t believe my baby girl is 1️⃣ tomorrow 😱 Sep 5, 2019
Hello September! The Bittersweet Month Sep 2, 2019Sep 2, 2019

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Pregnancy, Motherhood and Mental Health Blog covering what it’s like living with a mental health condition during pregnancy and motherhood. It includes recommendations of products which have been tired and tested and recommendations relating to things to do with your baby in Harrogate and the surrounding area.

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Liberty's 1st BirthdaySep 6th, 2019

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Today is the day that I started my new job following my dream career! It literally must’ve been waiting for me as Happened so soon after my redundancy! Now to get back into the routine of full time hours and managing life again as a working mum! thank you to all those who have supported and believed in me! #OnwardsAndUpwards #newjob #newcareer #followingdreams #childcare #nursery #preschool #workingmum #harrogate #oneyearold #harrogatemum #Libertyhughes #daughter #babygirl #newmum #motherhoodjourney #pregnancyblog #mummyblogger #mumlife #mumssupportingmums #harrogateblogger #babyblogger #mentalhealthblog #mentalhealthawareness #bipolarmumandthebabyblog
Day 17 of the #GirlAboutOctober and Today is a good book! the book - ‘The positive Birth Book’ by @milli.hill This book was literally my Bible when I was pregnant! As you can see there are so many tabs and it literally went everywhere with me! It helps plan and mentally prepare for my birth help me gauge and understanding of what to expect and to highlight what my rights were! The visual birth plan was very helpful for Hospital to show them what I wanted, what was acceptable and what under no circumstances was allowed to happen! The part of the book where Milli Hill talks about overcoming mental blocks this really helped as I wrote an open letter to Liberty before she was born to explain how I felt about her and about myself which really helps focus on the future! I literally got my husband to read that letter to me over and over again for three hours before my epidural was put in so I could remember why I was actually doing this! I highly recommend it to anyone who is pregnant or knows of anyone that’s pregnant as it really is the best book ever! #positivebirthbook #pregnancyguide #mentalhealth #selfcare #thoughts #overthinker #worrier #harrogate #oneyearold #harrogatemum #Libertyhughes #daughter #babygirl #newmum #motherhoodjourney #pregnancyblog #mummyblogger #mumlife #mumssupportingmums #harrogateblogger #babyblogger #mentalhealthblog #mentalhealthawareness #bipolarmumandthebabyblog @girlaboutblogsquad
Day 16 of the #GirlAboutOctober and Today is #WellbeingWednesday! I have posted this picture because it means a lot! My thoughts literally run my life sometimes and sometimes ruin it! Therefore on wellbeing Wednesday I am focusing on mental health and ensuring that only positive thoughts fill my head going forward! I know that’s easier said than done #positivethoughtsonly #positivequotes #positivethinking #mentalhealth #selfcare #thoughts #overthinker #worrier #harrogate #oneyearold #harrogatemum #Libertyhughes #daughter #babygirl #newmum #motherhoodjourney #pregnancyblog #mummyblogger #mumlife #mumssupportingmums #harrogateblogger #babyblogger #mentalhealthblog #mentalhealthawareness #bipolarmumandthebabyblog @girlaboutblogsquad
Day 15 of the #GirlAboutOctober and Today is ‘a proud moment’. There are about 5 life ones which were graduating university, successfully completely the York 10K (never ran before), the Great North Run In 2017, getting married and the birth of my beautiful daughter! I’m struggling to think of other proud moments apart from the usual baby milestones from Liberty first smile, to sitting up, to her first word! But this video where Liberty climbed onto the windowsill, slipped off and then went back and successfully achieved her goal was definitely a proud moment for me! Love her saying ‘Yay’ at the end 🙌🏻♥️ that’s definitely one of the things I want her to learn in life that if you can’t do it first time keep trying! #ProudMoment #ClimbingBaby #DustYourselfOffAndKeepTrying #KeepTrying #babymilestones #harrogate #oneyearold #harrogatemum #Libertyhughes #daughter #babygirl #newmum #motherhoodjourney #pregnancyblog #mummyblogger #mumlife #mumssupportingmums #harrogateblogger #babyblogger #mentalhealthblog #mentalhealthawareness #bipolarmumandthebabyblog @girlaboutblogsquad

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