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Sleep deprived but in love and blessed

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Being Amelia’s mother it’s a blessing! But let me tell you that I have dark circle around my eyes. I am sleep-deprived!

She is teething and using my breasts as a dummy during the night, or wakes up crying 5-10 minutes and then back to sleep.

Oh, yes, I am trying to wean her off but takes time.

We are in 2024 not 1995 when my inexperienced mother listened to a “witch” neighbour to apply some chilli powder around her breast to wean me off. My mother stated that my mouth was swollen and I cried all night long, well what would she expect!?

Amelia is just fine, playing while myself is sitting and wishing for 2 more hours of sleep.

Wait, are you wondering why I am not calling a family member to look after her while I rest? Good joke, there’s no one, apart from me and her Dad!

All her so-called family is in Romania, but even if we were in Romania I don’t see anyone coming to help, or maybe one of my sisters 🤔…

Some parents were blessed with childcare for free and others with this statement “Please pay your childcare fees by the 10th of this month 60% of your salary!”

With the rest of the 40% pay half of your rent, and welcome to the UK!

Amelia will be starting nursery in 1 week. Blessings and tears surely are about to happen 🙏

Parenting is all about loving unconditionally, waking up at 2 AM, paying nursery fees, wishing for 2 more hours of sleep when you know the Genie is blocked in the teapot 🫖  and drinking 5 coffees a day to keep that motivation and so much more.

Stay humble and honest, parents!

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Blessings to you, reader.

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Happy 2024!

We wish you a blessed new year!

The year 2023 was a blessing to me as a Mommy to Amelia
Started in early January to be a 24/7 Mommy and it was tough! Why, you may wonder, well not having anyone (apart from my husband) to support, and comfort you when the baby is sick, colicky is though, overwhelming!

Wished I had a friend, mom, or mother-in-law to at least tell me “Hey, let me hold her for 5 minutes, this shall pass too”.


My husband did all he knew and felt was responsible in that moment but having a woman support you as a new mom must be a blessing!

I learnt a lot this year, how to be more patient, resilient, emotionally stable, and organised as a Mommy while taking care of my home and family. I did it! In a week Amelia is turning 1.

Now, at the end of 2023, I can only be thankful for becoming a Mother.

Thank you as well for your support towards our families from Budila. 41 kids and 12 families had a splendid ✨️ Christmas 🎄

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Social Phobia

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A phobia is an extreme fear of something or a situation.

This is a complex phobia that can be developed after the adolescence period. We also call this ”social anxiety”.

Social phobia makes the person feel anxious when they have to be in contact with other people. They might be frightened that other people are going to criticise them or that they will do something embarassing.

Social phobia can be about only one social activity like speaking to group, called public speaking. This is common known as stage fright and can result in vomiting and may render the person literally speechless and unable to performe.

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Words of encouragement

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Do you often feel discouraged or overwhelmed by life? Like how everything seems to go wrong and you need words of encouragement to get by?

You need to feel weak for you to be strong. Your failures, while they do not define you as a person, determine your success.

Some bible verses here

  • Philippians 1:6 “…being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
  • Psalm 37:23-24 “The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.”
  • Hebrews 10:24-25 “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
  • Luke 12:32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.”
https://crinamorpho.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/there-is-nothing-more-important-than-a-good-safe-secure-home/: Words of encouragement
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There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.”

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Please support my fundraising for mom and little ones. They been kicked out from Mom’s boyfriend house recently. I am supporting them with all I can, but always a blessing to have others help too.

This is the link. If you would like to share or support it’s a huge THANK YOU!

https://gofund.me/4d49b24a: There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.”

Or you can buy my book from here and all funds goes towards them.

Childrens book https://crinamorpho.wordpress.com/childrens-book/: There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.”

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Let them be…

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Being a parent comes with lots of responsibilities, worries, unanswered questions, challenges, headaches BUT the blessing is way greater than the 2 minutes of headache.

My baby loves playing with food, especially fruits 🍉 many parents will choose not to fulfil their wish but take the little joy away.

I know, playing with food can be categorised as waste of goods but I found a way not to. Here it is, let them be the way you want, you lead them.

Playing with the food can be beneficial for them, the texture, smell, taste, hand eye coordination is important and it’s happening at the same time they having fun.

Amelia had fun with the watermelon (rind) think is called.

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Feeling depressed after childbirth

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The baby blues

Women can experience a low mood and feel mildly depressed at a time when they expect they should feel happy after having a baby.

“Baby blues” are probably due to the sudden hormonal and chemical changes that take place in your body after childbirth.

Symptoms can include:

  • feeling emotional and bursting into tears for no apparent reason
  • feeling irritable or touchy
  • low mood
  • anxiety and restlessness

All these symptoms are normal and usually only last for a few days (NHS website)

Is it postnatal depression?

Depression after a baby is born can be extremely distressing. Postnatal depression is thought to affect around 1 in 10 women.

Symptoms such as tiredness, irritability or poor appetite are normal if you’ve just had a baby. But these are usually mild and do not stop you leading a normal life.

When you have postnatal depression, you may feel increasingly depressed and low. Looking after yourself or your baby may become too much.

Emotional signs of postnatal depression may include:

  • loss of interest in the world around you and no longer enjoying things that used to give you pleasure (like you “cannot be bothered”)
  • feelings of hopelessness
  • not being able to stop crying
  • feelings of not being able to cope
  • not being able to enjoy anything
  • memory loss or being unable to concentrate
  • excessive anxiety about your baby

Other signs of postnatal depression may also include:

  • sleeplessness
  • extreme tiredness
  • feeling generally unwell
  • anxiety
  • loss of appetite

Proverbs 12:25 – Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down (depression), but a good word cheers it up.

https://crinamorpho.wordpress.com/childrens-book/: Feeling depressed after childbirth