Lipstick & Babies

It's been nearly a year since I last blogged and I don't think I've missed it. I don't think I was in a place to write also and I've had a lot to keep me busy. I've been out of work for over a year. Since being made redundant and being pregnant, it wasn't easy to get work before having F. In one hand I was lucky to have the time to have a relaxed pregnancy. However, in the other hand I was living off of Job Seekers Allowance, redundancy pay and some savings. Not the best situation to be in when you are pregnant, especially with some big purchases to make. If I was lucky enough to have worked up until I needed to go on maternity leave, then I've had about the same amount of time off before going back to work, if I still had a job. And now I need to get back into work to help support my family. Where I live, it was kind of becoming the new "norm" of being made redundant. It was in the local news everyday. Not a trend I want to be apart of...

Last weekend, myself, OH, mum and MIL drove down to Birmingham for The Baby Show. The show is a great place to see many of the items you may need for your new journey and get a great deal! I wrote a list, which was a great help!, so I could keep track of what I needed, make notes and included anything else we hadn't thought of. After our 6 hour drive we made it and had no idea of what was in-store for us. We had expectations that it would be a relatively decent size, but when we got there it was massive and very busy! Mums-to-be, new mums and mums in general all swarming up and down the isles looking at everything on offer. We decided to look around first and get an idea of everything on show. On our second walk around, we started looking more in depth at things. We asked for demo's of the travel systems we were interested in, we asked questions about the furniture we liked and I asked many questions about bottles, sterilisers, bottle-making machines, breast pumps and acc...