ABBEY Clancy gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday – her third child with husband Peter Crouch. The couple, who married in 2011, already have daughters Sophia, six, and two-year-old Liberty. Now, Katie Ellison, blogger at Mummy Daddy and Me Makes Three, has penned an open letter to Abbey, 31, revealing what it’s really like to welcome a boy into a predominately female household. And, by the sound of things, she’s in for some surprises… Abbey, congratulations on the birth of baby Johnny! I’m a mum-of-three – I have two girls, aged six and four, and a one-year-old boy – and I wanted to share my experiences with you. Warning: it’s going to be a crazy ride! I guessed I was having a boy during the first weeks of my pregnancy. My first two pregnancies were very similar, but from the off with my little boy I felt exhausted, sick and craved burgers. When the sonographer pointed out his boy-parts at our scan, and explained there was no mistaking he was a boy (my husband did the whole embarrassing, “Oh yes, you can tell, he’s just like his dad”. The nurses must get sick of that joke), I began to feel a bit nervous. I was so used to sweet, little girls – would raising a boy be different? Twenty months in, raising a boy is completely different to raising girls – but in other ways it’s exactly the same. My son didn’t sleep for a good year, while the girls… [Read full story]
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