Amélie is 41 weeks old this week. We have gone full circle together and she has been ‘out’ of me for as long as she was ‘inside’. I think this is quite an important milestone and life is feeling almost normal again. Normal probably isn’t the right word because things certainly aren’t as they were before but there is a new balance and a new routine. I have gone back to work for one and Amélie has started crawling and now spends her days at nursery.

This certainly seems like a very long time ago: