TELIA Day 9 + Bernadette

Stalking the Stalk has summed up beautifully just how many of us feel about the irrepressible, inspirational Bernadette! If you are able to contribute at all to this amazing fund raising effort please  do so and THANK YOU so much on behalf of all the IPs currently in India attempting the 'high wire' sport of surrogacy and motherhood in a wonderful but foreign land.

Telia my precious little girl has taken pity on her temporarily single mother and conceded some ground on the feeding, drinking, sleeping fronts. We had a few nights of heated discussion about it - Telia more heated than me - I was too tired to exert that much energy - but in the end she made a couple of excellent choices:

*to drink her bottles at room temperature (cutting out all that wasted bottle warming time)

*to drink all 60 mls in one sitting (and not 10mls here, 20mls there, sucking like a dummy blah blah)

* to settle better between the 10pm-ish feed and the 2am-ish feed YIPPPEEEE

These three simple adjustments have made a world of difference and I thank her immensely for that!

We celebrated her One Week birthday with a trip to the Svelte and play dates with the "Saskia - From little things, Big things grow" family and the "Our journey so Far" family! It was REALLY lovely and I had a great time - I'm pretty sure Telia did too coz she barely let out a squwark the entire time! Good Girl! Thanks again for such wonderful company guys and looking forward to more of the same in the future! Except my treat this time!!!

We also got to experience the 'Famous' City Walk Mall and I was simply blown away! The shopping options around Kalkaji are very ummmmm rustic and charming and the M Block Market is bustling and intense whereas the Mall . . . Is just like a big MALL ha ha! It was like an upscale "Westfield" shopping centre! ... And amongst other things I was finally able to buy myself a notebook!! . . Or four! . . As well as some tins of tuna! Some stuffed olives! Some Pringles! Some Nescafé coffee and some cracker biscuits! Ha ha yep - I went nuts and bought crazy stuff! But seriously you can get pretty much everything you need from that Mall from Saris to Sandshoes! :)

We've spent the last couple of days chilling out at home and waiting, waiting, waiting for whatever the next move might be. My husband has all but given up hope of ever getting here now and has returned to the oil and gas rigs in the desert. It seemed ridiculous wasting all of his hard earned holiday leave sitting around at home being lead up the garden path day in day out by all involved in the visa process.

So Telia and I are going to attempt this exit gig on our own it seems. Wish us luck! And talk again soon! XX