It’s summer (I think…*looks out of window and sees sun behind a cloud.*) So that hopefully means holidays, and lots of travel. But just because you have children and now have to cart an awful lot of stuff around with you doesn’t mean you have to have boring and unstylish things. Here’s a featured post about…
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Nap drops, sleep, and the eternal battle for bedtime
Read moreThe midday nap is nature’s gift to mothers, isn’t it? A blissful amount of peace, quiet, and time to yourself. It’s the pause in the middle of the day, the pit stop in the never-ending baby Grand Prix. It’s not quite as intoxicating as a large glass of wine, but it’s twice as refreshing. I…
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The early baby days
Read moreHow did you feel in the first few days of new babydom? Blissfully content, wafting round full of love and all the good hormones, gazing in wonder at your baby? Or slightly confused, clueless, tired, tearful, tired?
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Potty Mouth
Read moreThere are several subjects I swore I’d never talk about on this blog. These include things that are too personal, too boring or, well, you know, too icky. I don’t think anyone wants to hear about the time that happened. Or anything about the strange thing after I gave birth. Or the intimate details of…
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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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