I’m going to be working as the BFC at one of our new local BF Peer Support groups and I’m so excited about it! Yes, I’m getting paid for it, which is wonderful, but the funding is not secure after March so I may not get paid for long but I don’t care - I just want to be working officially as a BFC and I can’t wait. I’m starting officially on the 27th, but am filling in for the BfN Trainee Supporter who’s been attending up until now tomorrow, and next week we’ll both be going for a sort of ‘hand-over’.

I’ve been working on the NCT Breastfeeding Helpline a lot, which I’m really enjoying. We’re allowed to do up to 30 hours a month and I started out doing 2 hours in the evenings, but listening for 2 hours is hard work, so I’ve changed it to doing 1 hour most evenings and the odd hour in the morning when DH is off work and it’s going really well.

We’re changing our lives a bit at the moment - trying to get the girls to have a ‘bedtime’ is getting more and more stressful, so we’ve decided to give up. We have enjoyed our period of having evenings to ourselves, but it’s really not worth the battle we’re having to endure at the moment in order to get an hour in front of the tv (as that’s all we have the energy for by that point!). We’re going to just play, play, play with the girls all evening until we all go to bed together…maybe they’ll decide they want a ‘bedtime’ again in the future, but for now, we’re going to enjoy our family and put our ‘time to ourselves’ to one side for a bit.

Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail continue to be a delightful trio of sisters - we are very much enjoying being the parents of three and are finding it a whole lot easier than when Mopsy was born. We seem to be lucky enough to be in the group of parents who can report that the impact of the third child is much, much less than the impact of the second.