Hands up who loves long weekends? Or should that be, hands up who doesn’t love long weekends? Technically, as a midweek worker / mum they don’t make that much difference to me, but Alex is off so it means three whole days of just the three of us. Which is one of my favourite things…
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Pregnancy week 16: keep on moving
Read morePregnancy week 16…So the big and really exciting news this week is…our bathroom is finished! What’s that, you say – this should be a post about your pregnancy? Well, the bathroom has been the main focus of my life for about 100 years and I’m just so thrilled it’s done that I can’t really think…
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Leaving the house with a 2-year-old, or 25 reasons why we’re always late
Read moreOK, I admit it. I’m frequently late. It’s a really unappealing habit*, I know. but I’m not quite sure how it happens. One minute there’s hours to go, and the next I’m sprinting down the road, hoping that time itself is incorrect. And it never is. Add a child into the mix and things get…
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The truth about two children
Read moreWhat’s the truth about two children? “You’re going to have your hands full!” a nurse told me at my very first antenatal appointment, on hearing it was my second baby. She would shortly jab me in the arm with a needle, so was probably only trying to distract me with small talk, but sheesh, thanks…
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A positive message about public breastfeeding
Read moreHere’s some of the places I’ve breastfed my daughter in public: cafés, restaurants, shopping centres, waiting rooms, train stations, station platforms, on trains, on a train full of drunken football fans, on beaches and on board boats, on packed tubes and buses during rush hour in central London. In museums, art galleries, at the zoo,…
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Pregnancy week 15: inbetweeners
Read morePregnancy week 15…I’m comfortably wedged in that liminal space of pregnancy where nothing much is happening. It’s just between the ‘there’s actually a baby in there!’ excitement of the 12 week scan and then the major events after about 20 weeks leading up to the countdown (big movements, proper bump, giant flowery smocks and so…
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Sock squirrelling, and other small things to remember
Read moreTaking your socks off at every given opportunity. Then hiding them in unexpected places around the house. Meaning I’m constantly on the hunt for matching mini pairs of socks. Eating everything you can get your hands on, then saying ‘Mummeee, I’m HUNgry.’ Calling being in the swing ‘flying.’