Who is Pappy .... Pappy is the baby: Mother's Group 1st Birthday Party

Today my Mother's Group held our joint 1st Birthday party for the babies.

Here in Australia, when you have a baby the fantastic South Australian government set you up with a Mothers's Group of babies born around the same time. You have 6 weeks of structured learning at the local Child and Youth Health Centre, then you can do what you like. We have met every week since then, and it has been an amazing journey of sharing and friendship. We only have 9 in our group, most have over 12 mums.

I have loved hearing other people's stories, and I am not ashamed to admit that I like hearing other people's problems because it helps to put yours into perspective. Everyone goes through hard times, and it helps to hear how others have dealt with it.

And it amazes me how all the babies can develop at so many varied rates. Some are walking at 10 months, some don't have teeth at 11 month, others slept through the night at 3 months and some still aren't. Yet they are all classed as perfectly normal!!

After a year, 3 mums have returned to full time work, and everyone else is working at least some time. So we are going to miss out on seeing some of the babies grow up. Even today we saw Evan and him mum after not seeing him for 3 months. And he has really changed.

So here are a few choice pics of our Mother's Group, from day one, to 1 year on!!