Dear Isabelle Woohoo you are a year old!! One year!! 12 months!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!! What a roller coaster ride it has been would you agree? A very happy birthday girl When we first held you in our arms on 25th December 2017, it felt foreign to start with. After such a traumatic labour, all I felt was exhaustion after the c section. Then came the constant and inconsolable crying which really drove us to our wits end. We had no idea what to do with you and the first six weeks was a blur. Me trying to recover from the wound, and also trying to process that my baby was now here and it was our responsibility to, first and foremost, keep you alive. But how do I do that when I barely had any sleep? It was super on the job learning: we learnt how to change nappies, feed you, rock you to sleep, and then all over again. We learnt how to cope with poonamis (as in tsunamis) and clean you up without freaking...