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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
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