I've been reading up about push presents lately, Mariah Carey got a $12,000 necklace apparently on the birth of her twins and I wondered what Beyonce might have been given, was it this chunky blue ring in honour of Blue Ivy?! Seems it is the done thing in America but not yet standard practise for new daddy's in the UK! Although I know quite a few friends who had presents, including sparkly ones from their partners.

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I found this article of the top 10 most extravagant check it out here

I have to admit my husband did buy me a present when both my boys were born so I am a very lucky lady!

When our big boy was born he went to my favourite jewellers in Clifton Village, John Titcombe (where we got my engagement and our wedding rings) and had a beautiful diamond ring designed! It featured 3 stones one for each of us!

I wanted to share my most precious jewellery with you to show my husband how much I love them. Sometimes life is so busy I don't get enough time to thank him for all the lovely things he does for me and our little family!

I had small boy just before my 30th birthday so he bought me the most exquisite antique diamond ring from the 1920's and I love that it has a whole history I know nothing about! Also as it was second hand it was much cheaper than you might think!

Don't worry I found a link for ideas for Daddies too!

After reading this article on Ask Men UK listing the reasons a push present is ridiculous as:

• Money should be saved for the kid
• There is nothing less romantic than an expected gift
• Because life itself should be the gift
• Men endure as much pain during childbirth

I decided that the first three are quite valid and made me feel terribly spoilt for accepting such extravagant gifts but the last made me laugh and boil with rage at the same time so I won't be giving mine back anytime soon!

Did you get anything from your husband? Flowers? A card? Something sparkly?!

As a newbie or should I say noobie, I am still getting the hang of this twitter malarky. Here are my top 5 twitter fails so far

1. Tweeting a response to one of my husband's tweets copying in a handle with over 200,000 followers about him tweeting in the bathroom. He was not impressed.

2. Typos. If I do any more no one will accept that they are justified by baby brain or tiredness from 2 herberts who don't sleep through the night.

3. Not tweeting enough about my brother's Kickstarter project TwentyPence. I was too worried about what people thought of my tweets and should have shouted every hour that my talented brother is forging his way into the world of fashion!

4. Not tweeting soon enough or quite simply enough about my friend's incredible new app Curly's Guide. It is the most interesting, pleasing to the eye and informative app I have seen in forever. A guide to every sport you can imagine all written by a girl. Not meaning to sound old fashioned but she has the best knowledge of sport I have ever come across and still is the sweetest girl you could be lucky enough to meet. (Funny thing is, we lived together at Uni and she became known as Curly, hoping that inspired the app name!)

This is Curly!

5. Tweeting whilst holding small boy on my lap. He regularly, magically, manages to click the send button before I have finished typing with either a stray foot or a pudgy hand full of rusk. Maybe he's trying to tell me something!

Anything you could add to this list?!

I wanted to go to all the post natal talks at our local children's centre put on by the team of Health Visitors second time round. Mostly because I feel like my baby brain has meant I have forgotten everything I learnt first time! There was a particularly good talk on weaning which I wouldn't have missed for the world.

I know all the basics, the puree stage, the fork mashing and introducing lumps gradually. But it was great to go through it all again, what are good foods to start with and what to try as first fingers foods.

I was a little shocked when it was questioned why we shouldn't add salt to baby's veg, that it wouldn't taste as nice, but they don't know any better do they, babies!

I am trying to just give small boy water as he seems to be taking it fine and big boy suffers from night terrors on the days he's had squash at a party or at a toddler group where I don't get to him in time to switch it for milk or water!

I suppose babies only get used to what we give them. If you don't buy it, they don't eat it.

The Health Visitor made a thought provoking point, that weaning is an opportunity to revisit the foods you, as an adult do not eat.

I, for example, will eat cooked tomatoes, in a sauce, but cannot bear them whole in a salad. So as a consequence I hardly ever buy them and guess what, my boys won't eat them! Same for plums and kiwi fruit. Bizarre isn't it!

I hadn't really thought about the enormous influence that my personal preferences play in the weaning process.

To start with, I followed a chart, ticking off the foods I have tried, but as time goes on and they get older you get into a pattern, a routine of meals you cook every week, that get mashed and reheated for small people. Please don't judge me, that I give the boys what we have eaten the day before and not cooked from scratch each day. I admire anyone who is able to cook just for the children and then again for the adults but I am not one of them!

I am determined this time round, to make a conscious effort to expose small boy to as much as possible and give a few new things a go myself!

Have you experienced the same? Is there foods you have subconsciously not tried on your baby because you don't enjoy them?

If you want to print the handy list I have on my pin board, find it here!