20/09/2024
To our dear family and friends 👼🏼👩🏻🍼🍼
We will be welcoming our little boy earthside any day now and we certainly can’t wait to meet him. We’re sure you’re very keen to meet him too.
As we’re brand new to this whole parenting thing we’re not exactly sure of what we’ll want and need directly after his birth; Although, we have down a lot of reading & research to assist us in making the best decisions for ourselves and of course for our little man!
So, what is important, is to do what feels right for us, and to clearly communicate our wishes to you also so that you can lovingly respect them & help us to make this magical time as stress free as possible for everyone!
There are some things we know for sure.
👼🏼 Please don’t come over without checking with us first, we’re not sure when we’ll be ready for or wanting visitors.
👼🏼 We won’t be letting anyone hold the baby other than us for a little while to help with establishing breastfeeding and bonding. (We’re not sure how long this will be, but at least 5 days).
👼🏼 We’ll likely want initial visits to be short & with not too many people at once.
👼🏼 If you are coming for a visit that we’ve agreed to, we’d love it if you could see if there is anything we need on your way over. (Likely coffee or food or both 😂)
👼🏼 If and when you are holding our baby please don’t kiss our baby.
👼🏼 Please don’t wear strong perfumes if you’d like to hold our baby. We will not be allowing anyone to hold our baby if they have been smoking and potentially have smoke on their clothes.
👼🏼 Please stay away if you are sick, unwell, or have any kind of infection.
👼🏼 Please reach out to us if you feel to, with encouragement, support and offers of help, and please don’t be offended if we don’t reply for a while, I assume we’ll be doing lots of adjusting. Of course our top priority will be caring for our new little family 🤍
We really appreciate all of you and the wonderful people we have around us. Your support during this huge time will mean the world to us, even if we don’t know what we want that to look like yet.
We’re sure we’ll figure it out 😉
Much love Tash, Mal and little baby Lyons 🦁