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My new Dreami Carry Cot

I have a dream of pushing my new baby around in a beautiful pram, the kind of pram that nannies push in parks, a pram that had Silver Cross style but without the old-fashioned styling. It seems my dreams are not out of reach. The Quinny pram I’ve bought has an additional bit you can buy that looks like one of the traditional prams. It’s called a Dreami carry cot and new, it costs around £140.

Him indoors has been on a mission to help me buy one of these from an auction site and gloriously we have had success. We paid around £70 for a carry cot that has been used a couple of times at most. Gloriously it also comes from Rutland and so it does not have to travel very far to get to me. We bought a black one because I thought it would look quite stylish and it would also keep the light out in the summer and allow the baby to sleep. 

The carry cot arrived in its original box with all the original instructions, bug nets and rain cover as well as the sheet for the mattress inside. I can’t get over the fact that it has hardly been used at all. Why would you buy something like this and only use it a couple of times? We put it all together last night and I pushed it around the living room. It is fab. I can’t wait to put my baby in it and go for a walk.

Ok so in order to prepare for the arrival of my little one we have gone a bit hippy dippy. Not only have I been doing a pregnancy yoga course run by Nerrisa Fields in Leicester, we have also taken a hypnobirthing course.

I think this fits into the recycledbaby.co.uk ethos because the aim is to reduce the resources you use and have as natural a birth as possible. I’m not planning on giving birth in a yurt on a mountainside and frankly if something goes wrong then I want all the consumables at the hospitals disposal.

The idea behind hypnobirthing (and the yoga) is to make sure the mother is as relaxed as possible during all the stages of labour. If she is relaxed then a mother is able to cope if things don’t go to plan but she is also able to use the power of her mind to help ease the baby’s passage into the world. So I guess I’ve lost some of you there and it does sound crazy but I’ve been using Neuro Linguistic Programming at work for a long time now and I’ve been hypnotized quite a few times. I use a very basic form of self hypnosis to cope with going to the dentist and I recently saw a tv programme where a guy used hypnosis instead of having a general anaesthetic for an operation and it really does work.

We are in the middle of going to see this lady http://www.haveagoodbirth.com and she’s taking us through the process. I’ve got homework and hypnosis cds to listen to and I’m being pretty good about doing it most days. The postman caught me putting on my silver glove of numbing the other day – he watched me through the window and now thinks I’m insane!  The nice thing is that there are a lot of positive affirmations. Everything you do reinforces the fact that this is my birth and whatever happens I am in control of myself. I guess we’ll see how it goes.