What did I wear to my Daughter's Christening?

Hello Guys!

Yes I know...Another christening post, Last one I promise!

This is a ChiChi London OOTD

I've always wanted to own one of the beautiful ChiChi London dress and this was the perfect opportunity.

The dress did not disappoint me. It was truly beautiful and I felt like a million dollars wearing it!

This ChiChi London dress was part of their "plus" collection which goes from sizes 18-26. I did find I needed to go up a size in the dress which made it fit a lot better.

The dress I bought was called Gwen, it was a floral midi-dress with digital floral design, fitted bodice with "V" neck front and back with a perfect bold box pleated midi skirt.

I think this dress would be perfect for any special occasions, Parties, Weddings, Christenings & Cocktail events

ChiChi London have a lot of sales which happen quite regularly. The dresses are popular and I had to try a few times to order the dress as they sell out very quickly but again replenish quickly too. I will leave a link down below for the Gwen dress which is now on sale £39 down from £69.99

Thank you for reading

Elyssia x

https://www.chichiclothing.com/products/Chi-Chi-Curve-Gwen-Dress.html

Christening Photos

As promised, Photos of Daphney's Christening.
Daphney has 4 God-parents Chris and Loren Organ - Mine and John's Best Friends
Megan and Michael - John's Sister and My God-father

Let's see!!

Father Paul, John, Myself, Loren, Chris, Megan & Michael

The Organ Family with their 2 Beautiful Children

My mum Cheryl, my Great Auntie Mu (*98! Let's just take a second..how great does she look!!) and Michael

Beccy, Daphney and Myself

Myself and Lorna (I've known this beauty for 21 years)

Things No-One Tells You About Pregnancy!!!

Hello Lovely’s

I thought I would do a fun post about the things no-one will tell you about pregnancy, I gave birth to my daughter Daphney on 11/11/16 via Csection – To read my story there is a post below!

So here goes…

1. Every pregnancy is different!! You will have a different experience to another pregnant mums
2. *TMI* Constipation!! This is THE most annoying thing ever!
3. Hip/Pelvic pain also know as SPD (Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction) – towards the end of my pregnancy I struggled with this a lot and finally got signed off work at the end of 37 weeks, I ended up having physical therapy but in some cases woman end up with crutches or even wheelchairs!
4. Midwives don’t know everythinkg!!! I cant stress this enough, and yes most of the time they are right and you should listen to them but I used to hang on everything my midwife said. I was told Daphney would be small – She was 8lb 11oz, I was told she was engaging (late pregnancy) when Daphney was still breech and it was her bum engaged. I learnt to take everything she said with a pinch of salt! *AGAIN this is just my expericance*
5. Peeing, I normally sleep through the night but nope, not when I was pregnant, I would be up every couple of hours needing a wee
6. If your fuller figured like myself you might not show as quickly as other mums to be. I think I started showing about 24+ weeks
7. Hormones - I cried my eyes out over not having Thai curry for dinner...
8. Weird cravings – now this is something I was so excited by! I craved Limes, honesly I could eat a whole lime, but settled for REALLLLLY strong lime squash (I remember buying squash and having over a ¼ of the bottle per glass but I would add sliced limes to drinks and also I LOVED spicy foods, which is not me at all, I used to eat at Turtle Bay and order a curry packed with scotch bonnets! Needless to say I couldn’t eat it now
9. Teeth – where do I start on my teeth!!! My gums were constinatly bleeding, my teeth got so wobbly and just hurt. I had so many trips to the dreaded dentist and everthing was fine. I came to the conclution it was due to their being no Calcium in my pregnancy supplement and I don’t eat a lot of dairy so all the calcium I was taking in was going straight to Dapheny – easily solved by having a glass of milk a day!
10. Everyone will want to touch your growing tummy... this is something that really annoyed me... when I was fat you didn't want to touch my tummy, but when I was pregnant it was like I had a sign on my tummy which said "go on have a feel, don't ask me just do it!" URGH! And people would ask if Daphney was kicking, I would tell them the truth, if she was kicking if would be down near my vagina beause she was breech so you will have to feel very far down and that might make all parties uncomfortable!! 

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Daphney 6 week update

Hello lovely people! 

I hope you are all well. I thought I would do a blog post about Daphney and her 6 week update! 

Daphney had her last visit from the health visitor this week and has put on weight which is great! 

Daphney is sleeping though the night now and has been from about 2ish week, it takes her about 2 hours to get to sleep but when she does drift off she stays asleep until about 7.30/8am! 

She's still having breast milk as a first feed and at her last feed and is bottle fed formula milk as the other feeds which is working really well for us. It means John can help with feeding and we're not tied down to the house

Daphney has started to really smile now which is soooo cute, and she looks around the room to the sound of our voices which I think she can tell it's us! 

D (Daphney) has been a lot more vocal now and gurgles away to us and seems to be awake and a lot more alert in the day times now which is nice, she's also grunting now like a little piggy which is adorable.

Daphney's started to enjoy baths now which is good as we have booked her in for a trail swimming lesion at the end of January! 

We went to the Dr for her 6 week update and they were really happy with her, they checked D's head and chest and answered the questions I had.

Daphney's been loving all the Christmas lights and she will turn to look st then and seems to be focused more on them now which is good.

She was getting a bit spotty but they seem to be cleaning up now, she's had colic but again clearing up and now I think she has slight cradle cap on her eyebrows so that's the next thing we'll have to sort out!

But all in all Daphney is on track and doing great!!

Thanks for reading

Mummy Stephens 

Long time no posts!

Hello Lovely people

Sorry its been a while since I posted anything, so much has happened but most excitingly I can now announce I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on Friday 11^th November 2016. Ill do a serperate blog post about the birth so look out for that.

But this is just a quick post to say im coming back! Ill be posting blogs every Wednesday and Sunday, ill be doing baby updates, hauls, reviews and anything eles I want to talk about really.

I hope you all had a great Christmas.

Thank you for reading

Mummy Stephens x

Mothercare baby event

15/06/16(photos to follow!)

Today Myself and John popped along to our local mothercare for one of their expecting parent events which ran from 6pm-8pm.

We arrived and were greeted by the lovely staff at the Gloucestershire with a goodie bag which included a 10% off a shop! 

We walked around the store and talked so different local venders they had, swimming is something Myself and John want our little munch to do from an early age, so for us it was a really good to find out more about it.

The staff were really helpful when we were looking for crib/mosses basket . We have already bough a cot bed so the lady advised us to get a mosses basket, so we could make full use of our cot. 

We also bought some Mothercare own crochet shoes in cream for a new born which were so cute, plain white vests for sleeping, mosses basket fitted sheets and some Pregncare supplements which were cheaper than when I buy them from boots!

(I'll leave links to everything we bought below)  

All in all I am really happy we went to the event, it was great to speak to Kim (a shop worker in mothercare) as she had loads of good advise and tips as she had a 8 month old herself!

If there is an event near you I would highly recommend it!!

Happy reading

Mummy Stephens

Moses basket (on sale) 

http://www.mothercare.com/Mothercare-Bear-and-Friends-Moses-Basket/721652,default,pd.html&loadMoreCurrentStatus=1&returnCgid=nursery_cribsandmoses&returnSrule=null&start=&returnScrollPos=275

New born baby shoes £15

http://www.mothercare.com/Knitted-Booties/LF1068,default,pd.html?dwvar_LF1068_color=Cream&q=Baby%20shoes&loadMoreCurrentStatus=1&returnCgid=&returnSrule=null&start=10&returnScrollPos=289

Baby vests x7 in a pack

http://www.mothercare.com/Mothercare-My-First-Sleeveless-Bodysuits--7-Pack/641556,default,pd.html&loadMoreCurrentStatus=1&returnCgid=unisex_nightwear_underwear&returnSrule=null&start=20&returnScrollPos=303

Moses basket sheets £7.99

http://www.mothercare.com/Mothercare-Cotton-Fitted-Moses-Basket-Sheets--2-Pack-Cream/367601,default,pd.html&q=Moses%20sheets&loadMoreCurrentStatus=1&returnCgid=&returnSrule=null&start=&returnScrollPos=231

Pregnacare £13.25!!

http://www.mothercare.com/Pregnacare-Plus---28-Tablets/630603,default,pd.html&q=Pregnacare&loadMoreCurrentStatus=1&returnCgid=&returnSrule=null&start=&returnScrollPos=197