I’ve been thinking a lot about motherhood recently. Mostly during the pitch black evenings and grainy grey mornings of the nightfeed, mainly because of the toddler’s upcoming birthday. You naturally flash back to the delivery date on your children’s birthdays, don’t you? Every year on ours my mum would always recap our birth stories, and…
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Babies, building work and big home renovations
Read moreThe week before Christmas marked a year since we moved into our new house (how long is it considered new for? I should probably stop calling it that). In that time we’ve done a lot of work; there wasn’t a single room in the house that didn’t need something doing. We’ve replaced the boiler, bathroom and kitchen,…
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SnuzPod Bedside Cot Review: Ten Weeks Of Newborn Baby Sleep
Read moreThe Snuzpod Bedside Crib – We Review The Snuzpod Cot We review the Snuzpod bedside cot – a co-sleeper cot that attaches to your bed. Here’s how we found ours with our newborn baby. Are you pregnant or have a newborn, and are interested in buying a co-sleeper cot that attaches to the side of…
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What we watched in 2014
Read more2014 was, for us, a year of pregnancy, new babies and house renovations, so we were at home a lot. This is where Netflix came in really handy. It can be such a sanity saver as there’s never anything to watch on normal TV when you want it, is there? Throughout the year I’ve been…
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New Motherhood: 7 Things No-One Ever Tells You
Read moreJust Had A Baby? Here’s What No-one Tells You About New Motherhood New motherhood doesn’t come an instruction manual, does it? If there was one about pareting handed out in the Bounty pack it would make negotiating the occasionally rocky roapmap of nightfeeds, hormones and emergency nappy changes a lot easier. Here are seven things…
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Have a more enlightened Christmas
Read moreWho has their decorations up already? Despite Eliza telling everyone at nursery to the contrary (!) we are holding out till the weekend. She does have advent calendars though: my mum bought us the one with a tiny illuminated snowy village in the picture. She’s also fascinated by the Christmas lights we see outside and…
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Plus one month: four and a half weeks of Florence
Read moreSo one month in, how are we getting on with our newborn? It’s all a lot better than I’d thought. So many things – from pregnancy, through to the birth, recovery and the early baby days – have been easier and more enjoyable. Is Florence a less difficult baby? I don’t think so, but it…