Feeding update
Yeah, I know, boring. But this is my new world so if you want my perspective on motherhood then you’ll just have to suffer it. (See how I’m practicing my lecturing parental tone? Now go and do your...
View ArticleBoob kicked the bucket
Well it’s official, I’ve stopped pumping. I’ve run out. Dried up. Milk has left the building. Once Amelie started sleeping through the night it was very difficult to keep it up (this is because you...
View ArticleMotherhood, the beginning, again
Sunday – day 1, hospital Well I didn’t sleep last night. Not surprising. I’m beginning to realise how hard it is to function with a broken wrist. It’s really really ridiculously sore, and they’re only...
View ArticleAnd then I got mastitis…
…because dealing with a broken wrist and a failed homebirth and an unmedicated labour and a newborn wasn’t quite enough fun, life decided to throw me another curveball. But we’ll get to that later....
View ArticleLuna makes me lactate
I am continually fascinated by the non-baby-related things that make me randomly lactate. How’s that for an opening sentence? But seriously, it’s weird. Like, I was out walking the other night and I...
View ArticleTen things I wish I’d known about breastfeeding
1. You have to want to breastfeed. You can’t put your fingers in your ears (or your hands over your nipples) when it comes to preparation for breastfeeding. You have to learn about it while you’re...
View ArticleGrowing
I had a list of things to tell you. Just life. Gearing up for Christmas, our amazing advent extravaganza, baking gingerbread men that resemble road traffic accidents, the incessant crafting demanded of...
View ArticleNine
Don’t let people tell you that breastfeeding helps you lose weight. It doesn’t. It gives you an insatiable otherworldly never-satisfied GIVE ME ALL THE BISCUITS hunger. There are people who will tell...
View ArticleA Charlie update
I haven’t blogged in ages. Again. I’m going through one of those MUST DELETE BLOG AND EVERY REFERENCE TO MYSELF AND MY FAMILY ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE ANXIETY kinda things. Or I was. I think I’m over...
View ArticleTrade-in
I’d like to think I’ve kept things fairly gender neutral for my kids. I’ve always tried to stay away from the really obvious stuff, not that it’s been entirely successful – my daughter definitely has a...
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