Hello, really – how is everyone? It feels like it’s been ages, probably because it has been. For a million reasons, and because like so many women working and parenting in a pandemic, life has been busy and occasionally, pretty overwhelming. And every time is feels like things are kind of back to ‘normal’, there’s…

Modibodi Period Pants Review… Would You Switch To Reusable Period Pants? I Tried Them And Here’s What I Thought Would you try reusable period pants? I’ve been reviewing the Modibodi period pants and here’s what I thought of them. I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of reusable period pants. So when was contacted about…

Here Are Five Thoughts On Breastfeeding…Eight Years On From The Start… One) It’s not just you. We really struggled with breastfeeding first-time-round, for a long time. It seemed to me like everyone else ‘got’ it, easily, and even people who had problems sorted them out when their baby was a newborn, and not weeks old…

Here’s everything I wish I’d known about my child starting school… Is your child starting school soon? I know how you feel! Last September my youngest started school, and I walked her to the gate, in her too-big dress and her too-shiny shoes, desperately trying not to make it too obvious how much I was…

Here Are 13 Thoughts On Parenting In A Pandemic, Three Months In: Here are 13 thoughts of parenting in a pandemic, but firstly, how are you? How are you doing, really? And secondly, if you’d told us all on 1st January 2020 that we’d be spending much of the upcoming year on lockdown, parenting in…

What’s It like When You Have A Newborn In Coronavirus Lockdown? Having a newborn baby is a rollercoaster of new experiences, different emotions, extreme sleeplessness, joy and all the hormones at once, mixed up in one crazy, amazing bundle. But what happens when you have a newborn in coronavirus lockdown, and when the birth of…