Here’s Our Six Month Baby Update I wasn’t going to write a six month baby update this month, as I had thought that there would only be tiny developments which would verge on the tedious for everyone apart from the Grandmas. However, six months for babies seems like a massive turning point! She’s changed so…
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On weaning, feeding, and teaching my daughter to love food
Thinking back to my childhood, my brothers and I were notoriously picky eaters. One of us would only eat mashed potato with salad cream, one wouldn’t touch anything which had bits in it, and there was a particularly traumatic incident involving some fish that my parents still regularly bring up now. So when it came to weaning…
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On Separation Anxiety: Moving The Baby Out Of Our Bedroom
Separation Anxiety – Moving Your Baby Out Of Your Bedroom… When’s the right time to move the baby out of your bedroom? And when do you move the baby to their own room? It is normal to have anxiety about your baby sleeping in their own room? How do you deal with separation anxiety (in…
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In the family
Top row: Eliza with Grannie Gill and Grandad Keith. Bottom row: also with my brother Steve, and Grandma and Grandad (my mum and dad). Like a lot of people we know who live in London, Alex and I don’t live very close to most of our immediate family. I grew up in Shropshire, and after…
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Art for babies: Andy Warhol and Phillip Haas at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Last week we went to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, which is just down the road from us in Dulwich Village. As well as the permanent collection of old masters, there’s currently an Andy Warhol exhibition as well as Phillip Hass sculptures in the Dulwich Picture Gallery garden (the Four Seasons, the giant fruit heads in…
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On having one of those weeks
It’s fair to say that both myself and the mini-me and are having one of those weeks. One of us is right under the thundercloud on the latest Wonder Week leap, and as a result the other one of us is suffering from an exhaustingly dull lack of sleep. It’s pretty predictable to talk about…
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The Olympic torch relay: Crystal Palace
I realised I must be a proper mum when I got excited about taking five-month old Eliza along to see the Olympic Torch this week. It’s hardly like she’ll remember it, is it? But it seemed like a nice thing to do; plus it’s something to tell her about in years to come (hi, future…