Twistshake was founded in 2011 by Vienar Roaks.

I choose a lovely vibrant blue bottle in 260ml size. The bottle arrived a few days later

These are anti colic bottles which is very important to us as Finley has suffered with colic from early on. They are BPA free, have an anti-colic valve and a mixer next which helps dissolve clumps and they come in 6 fab colours

Another appealing thing about these is that you dont just get the bottle you get a milk powder box with it too! Now that’s something I have not seen before with other brands and very handy to have with the bottle.

Finley can be a bit fussy when it comes to bottles but he took to this bottle straight away with no fuss and seemed very happy using this new bottle.

The bottle is Ergonomically designed so is very comfortable to hold for both mum/dad and baby

Twistshake have very generously offered another bottle to giveaway on Twitter, the winner will be able to pick a bottle in the colour and size of their choice. To win all you need to do is follow me here @lisanorfolk , follow Twistshake here Twistshake and retweet this https://twitter.com/lisanorfolk/status/653857978857164800

The winner will be picked randomly on Saturday October 17th 2015

This baby was planned and at 36 I knew this would be my last chance at having another child. We were of course very wary of having another child after all that Tiana went through with her heart defects but after speaking to our doctor we were happy that the chances of that happening again were very slim.

We found out I was pregnant very early on, at 4 weeks, so we had a long and nervous wait until we reached that 12 week mark and got to have our first scan.

we were relieved when our first scan was over and that so far everything looked good, we saw the consultant who explained that we would need more scans than usual to keep a close eye on baby and they would do a special scan later on in my pregnancy to make sure baby’s heart looked ok.

My pregnancy continued very smoothly but we just could not wait to find out the sex of our baby so I booked a private sexing scan with http://www.a4dbaby.com/

We were very excited to find out it was another boy we were having and Dylan, our eldest, was very happy that he was going to be a big brother.

At our 20 week scan, the sonographer took a very good look at our little boy’s heart and it was good news, everything looked perfectly normal but they still booked us in to have another scan just to look at the heart again, we got a call a week or so later to say that our local hospital , Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, would rather we had the detailed scan down at Great Ormond Street Hospital so we got that booked in for 3 weeks later and again at that scan we were reassured that everything was fine but they informed us that the defect that Tiana has been born with could not be detected on scans anyway so baby would need an Echo scan once he was born. That scan is booked for November this year.

We decided, as we had with Tiana, to get a private 4D scan booked in so we could see our little man in 4D so booked that in for when I was 28 weeks pregnant, the day came and we took both our children and my mum, it was so magical seeing our boy in 4D and watching him move around so much and pull faces in the womb.

Here is just one photo from our scan (we got loads and a dvd)

At my 32 week scan the sonographer noticed that baby’s growth had slowed right down so I would be scanned every 2 weeks until I went into labour but at 36 weeks growth had stopped completely so I was booked in to be induced at 38 weeks, this was a relief in a way as I had been 10 days late when I had both Tiana and Dylan.

Induction day came and I got to the hospital on the Sunday afternoon with the hopes of baby being born either later that day or on the Monday but induction kept being put off as the delivery suite had too many emergencies to deal with, I was very frustrated but understood it could not be helped. Monday morning came and again they were too busy to get labour going for me so again it was a waiting game. Finally at around 11pm Monday night the process was started but things didnt really progress so at around 4am I was moved over the labour ward to be put on a drip to get things moving, I then had my waters broken and had a wander around the hospital a while later. Not much was happening still so they kept upping the dose in the drip and finally the contractions started; I was determined to just have gas and air like I did with Tiana’s labour but once the contractions were coming thick and fast I could take no more and had an epidural.

Finally after things progressing very quickly in the final stage of labour our son Finley was born in the afternoon after 4 hours and 30 minutes of labour at 13:40pm weighing exactly 6lb .

Finley is now 7 weeks old, thriving and keeping mummy very busy, especially during the night

As my first born was a boy I was so excited to be able to buy all the pink girly clothes for her. We were so excited to bring her home just 12 hours after birth.

We settled in to life as a family of four and were very happy, it seemed like Tiana was the perfect baby, she slept through the night pretty much from day one and barely cried; she was not a great feeder tho but we just thought she didnt want much each feed as she was small.

At 6 weeks of age I took Tiana for the usual 6 week check up with the doctors and that is where our nightmare began, he discovered that she had a heart murmur so referred us to the hospital for extra checks, the appointment was for 5 weeks time, we were shellshocked but tried to carry on at home as normally as possible but in the next few weeks Tiana started to lose weight and her feeding was getting worse, she would struggle to take even an ounce without falling asleep. Due to the doctor and health visitor’s concerns with Tiana we were sent to the hospital when she was 10 weeks old to try and find out why she was losing weight, the hospital were also now concerned so booked her in for an ECHO on her heart.

A doctor from Great Ormond Street Hospital who runs clinics at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital was the one to scan our little princess to check her heart and it was then that Dr Derrick told us the devastating news, our princess had been born with a rare heart defect called Alcapa (Anomalous Left Coronary Artery arising from the Pulmonary Artery) and the more common Mitral Valve Regurgitation defect. Dr Derrick then informed us that Tiana would need open heart surgery as soon as possible and that we were to be rushed down to Great Ormond Street Hospital the very next day.

On March 5th 2008 we arrived at Great Ormond Street Hospital where we spent a sleepless night with Tiana worrying about what she was having to face; It was decided that surgery to sort the Alacpa was to take place the very next day;

Tiana was taken to theatre by her daddy as I just could not face it, I kissed and cuddled her and told her I would see her soon, the next 5 hours felt like a lifetime while our princess was operated on but finally we got word that it had all gone well but the next few hours were critical, Tiana was on the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and hooked up to all sorts of machines with wires all over her tiny body; We were told to expect to see her improving over the next few days and then weeks but something was not right, she was not getting any better at all, had the surgery not worked? After 3 weeks of no improvement we were then told that Tiana’s Mitral Valve was not working as it should and that she would need another operation on her heart so they could repair the valve. To say we were gutted was an understatement, it was bad enough seeing her go through her first operation at 11 weeks of age and now at 14 weeks she had to go through another.

Her second operation was scheduled for March 27th, this was her brother’s birthday, we were so stressed as Dylan (her brother) had been bought to London to be with us for his birthday and now it looked like all the focus would be on Tiana but on the morning of the 27th Tiana developed a slight temperature so surgery was put off for a few days, we were relieved for Dylan’s sake and got to spend some much needed time with him.

Tiana’s surgery to repair the valve went well and over the next few days she started to finally improve, she was still quite poorly but better than after her first surgery; mid April we were told that Tiana was well enough to be transported back to our local hospital in Norfolk so were overjoyed, after a few weeks at the Norfolk and Norwich she was discharged and we were so happy that we could take her home after all she had been through.

Life settled into a routine of feeding Tiana through the tube in her nose and giving her medicines throughout the day to help her heart recover and her daddy even decided to do a 13,000ft solo parachute jump to raise money for GOSH; after a few cancellations due to the weather Kevin finally did his jump at the end of August 2008 but that day Tiana was very grizzly which was not like her at all and I just didnt know what was wrong with her, she became very poorly again and was admitted back into hospital and an emergency scan was arranged for very late in the evening. The sonographer came and did the scan, we discovered from the scan that Tiana had Endocarditis (a rare and potentially fatal infection in the heart) . Our local hospital got straight on the phone to Great Ormond Street to report their findings, on their advice Tiana would again be rushed down to GOSH again the next day but would have to be put to sleep before her journey.

Tiana was taken down to the Intensive Care Unit the next morning where we stood by her bedside while all the equipment was being prepared by the CATS team (Children’s Acute Transport Service) The time came for them to administer the drugs to put her to sleep so we were asked just to wait behind the curtains outside her cubicle; we stood there listening to the machines and suddenly Tiana’s heart stopped beating, I went into meltdown and was totally distraught thinking we had lost her after all she had been through but after two or 3 of the longest minutes of my life the doctors had managed to get her heart restarted, wow what a relief that was but at that point we realised how very very poorly Tiana was; she was finally stable enough for her journey to GOSH to begin, she was being transported with lights and sirens on due to the urgency to get her there but it was still going to be a 2-3 hour journey and her dad and I were to follow down in our car.

On arrival at GOSH we went straight to Cardiac Intensive Care to see Tiana as she had arrived a while before we had and on September 9th Tiana went back to theatre for the 3rd time, whilst in surgery doctor’s were unable to repair her valve which had been damaged by the infection so had to replace it with a Prosthetic Valve. This meant Tiana would have to take blood thinners for the rest of her life and would need a 6 week course of strong antibiotics through a hickman line that went into the side of her chest and would remain at GOSH for at least that duration.

Tiana was finally discharged from hospital in November 2008 and since then she has really come on in leaps and bounds but will always remain behind her peers developmentally due to the amount of time she spent in hospital in her first year of life

Tiana is an amazing little girl and makes the whole family proud on a daily basis

This photo shows Tiana in June this year