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Safe Delivery

July 28, 2014 · by munchiesandmunchkins · Leave a Comment

We have all been there. When you are expecting something through the mail and it never appears. Or you send a special gift to someone and it doesn’t arrive at their end. Using our standard general mail services this has happened to me on more occasions recently than I would like to admit and seems to be getting worse.

I sent some baby treats to a friend using good old R.Mail recently and they simply didn’t turn up. The items weren’t high value so I didn’t send it by signed for or recorded mail and on complaining to my local post office I was told there was simple nothing they can do.

Now if I need to send something and want to be assured it will arrive on time, in good condition and at the right place I use a specialised delivery service. There are lots of companies offering various services these days. Most even pick up from your house which is always a bonus if you are a busy mum like me.

Did you know TNT even offer a same day collection and delivery service? Handy for those little emergencies!

I’ve also been using Ebay a lot lately to shift some of my old maternity clothes and products that I no longer use and it’s great to be able to give buyers a tracking number or company they can call to chase up their purchase. My feedback has increased and lots of positive comments from customers regarding speedy posting.

As a blogger I receive a lot of parcels. My postman usually has a few for me every week and I now seem to know most of the local parcel delivery men – it’s been interesting for me to find out which ones are reliable and which ones will leave my parcel out in torrential rain!

One of my recent parcels contained this lovely hamper:

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* This post is in collaboration with TNT.

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Filed Under: random · Tagged: delivery, mail services, parcels, same day service, tnt

Bring IT on

October 15, 2013 · by munchiesandmunchkins · 1 Comment

I’m nearing the end of my pregnancy.

At this stage in my first pregnancy I was starting to get pretty scared about delivering my baby. The fear of the pain, the after effects of it all and obviously anything going wrong kept me awake for weeks before my waters broke.

I had my birth plan all prepared:

*Water birth – didn’t happen
*No episiotomy – didn’t happen
*Active labour – didn’t happen

In fact labour was hard, harder than I even imagined it would be. My daughter was born at an angle and I was at the pushing stage for a lot longer than I should have been. With every push she came out a little and went back a little. It was hard. In the end I had to have an episiotomy as she was getting distressed. I think the fact that I had to labour lying down, legs in stirrups and all ( as I had been so sick) caused the labour to be longer than needed.

This time around even though I know it can be painful I’m looking forward to it. Labour for me is the finishing line of a particularly gruelling marathon. This pregnancy has sucked. I am not going into this labour with any real birth plan demands. I can’t have a water birth as I will need a cannula for the antibiotics but I am hoping to be more active and have a natural labour with just gas and air. This may not happen. And I am prepared for that.

I have my Tens machine and gym ball ready to go – I found the Tens machine such a help last time.

If I labour for 3 hours or 3 days she will be worth it.

When groups of women who have children or are pregnant get together the discussion about childbirth often crops up and we all tell our war stories/reminisce. Whilst I have heard some (OUCH) unpleasant things the one sentence you always hear is “I would do it all again tomorrow”

Whilst it sucks that as women we have to do this really hard job of carrying a baby for 9 months and then giving birth the feeing of euphoria and adrenaline you get after giving birth is incomparable. No other happiness/legal or illegal high could ever match it. I didn’t really sleep for 5 days after giving birth as we had to stay in hospital but I can’t remember a happier time in my life.

Did your labour/s go as planned? Does anyone’s? Are you nervous about giving birth?

Bump update:

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