It’s officially been 3 months since I welcomed my tiny little man into the world and started the best chapter of my life- being a mum. So I thought I would share an update as to how we have been getting on.

So how is Ozzy getting on?

After feeling so terrible for my entire pregancy I had a new lease on life and loved getting out and about. Ozzy came with me on long dog walks, supermarket trips and everywhere I went. He got a lot of attention wherever we went, with people stopping me to ask how old he was, how much he weighed and then starting a whole conversation about their kids. It was lovely and the little man has always behaved himself either sleeping the whole time or looking around at everything he could set his eyes on.

Well after coming home from the hospital I felt amazing and had family come around to meet him, within the first 2 weeks he had met most of the family; both sets of grandparents, 3 great grandparents, 6 uncles, 3 aunts and 4 cousins. We had been out visiting people from mine and my partners work who were so excited the whole pregnancy. He’d even come on a pub crawl (I drank Pepsi Max, he had milk but hey it still counts)

He’s grown so much already.Starting life at a total of 6lb11oz (weirdly the exact weight I was at birth) and now weighs 12lb 4oz, staying nicely in the 25th percentile since he was born. He started life in size 0 nappies and stayed in them for 3 weeks along with tiny baby clothes. He graduated into to newborn clothes which he outgrew at 6 weeks. He is now wearing 0-3 months and at this time is showing no sign of outgrowing them as well as still being in size 1 nappies.

So what has he been up to?

Development-wise, he’s been coming on in leaps and bounds. At just over a month old he decided he could hold his own head up—and he hasn’t looked back since. He is incredibly nosy and loves to spin his head round to take in as much as he can. This proves to be a problem sometimes as he refuses to lay down and just wants to be sat up so he can see. Which is lovely until you’re busy and can’t hold him.

Also at just over a month old he rolled for the first time, and that too has never stopped. He can now roll from his belly to back in both directions and loves to do so, finding it very funny to escape from tummy time.

Speaking of finding things funny, Ozzy never seems to stop smiling. The ceiling lights, the dog, complete stranger making eye contact- all make him break out in a massive gummy grin. A few days ago I even managed to record his first giggle. His dad was clapping his little hands together and out came the cutest laugh I’ve ever heard (Yes I did cry).

He loves to lay under his play gym and bat at the little toys, smiling when he sends them flying. His hand eye coordination gets better every day. At first it was pure luck if he hit a toy, now he looks directly at the one he wants before reaching out and batting it. He has even started grabbing hold of his favourite toys as they swing above him.

His sleep is getting better and better each night. In the first few weeks he would wake every 4 hours to feed, then moved on to 6 hours and now sleeps comfortably for 10 hours. I occasionally hear him in the night clearly awake but he will wiggle around and then fall back to sleep. We have the same routine every night- with a bath, moisturise and massage with calming music playing. Then move to a dark room, swap to white noise, put him in to a sleep sack. Finally, he has a story and then has a feed. I go to bed every night waiting for the time his sleep stops being so good- the four month regression will probably hit me like a train.

Ozzy took his first round of vaccines like a champ- he cried for maybe 10 seconds after every injection and then was fine. After following the advice on giving him Calpol he never got a temperature or anything. The first day he was more clingy than normal, but after that he settled. The only real side effect he had was from the rotavirus vaccine- he seemed to have terrible trapped wind for the 2 weeks the virus was live.

His second round of vaccines he had 2 days ago and thus far he has been fine. A bit windy again thanks to that lovely live virus and other than being slightly more sensitive than normal he’s been his happy self.

How have I been getting on?

Well since having a nightmare pregnancy everything post preganancy has been amazing. I have loved every second of being a mum and I adore watching Ozy grow. I healed really well after the birth. My stitches never really slowed me down—I was wandering around Tesco on day two because I was bored.

I’m soaking up every moment of time with Ozzy. The night time feeds where it’s only us. The contact naps. When I pick him up when he’s upset and he just melts into me. Making him smile. Playing with him. Watching him learn new stuff every day. I can’t believe it’s been 3 months already. It weirdly feels like way longer than three months, but also only 5 minutes since I bought home my dinky newborn. He has changed so much from a teeny tiny wrinkly newborn, to now a cheeky little monkey.

I can’t wait to see what the next three months bring and watch him keep growing into his own little person. At the same time, I’ll always miss that tiny wrinkly newborn I brought home from hospital—and I’ll never forget the first time I saw him.