• Rated PJ (for Parental Judgement)

    August 14, 2015

    What do David Beckham and I have in common?

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  • The great escape

    August 12, 2015

    Places I’ve retrieved my baby from this week, after I turned my back for a fraction of a millisecond:

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  • Breastfeeding: our greatest hits

    August 7, 2015

    As it’s National Breastfeeding Week, I’m taking part in the Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt (yesterday’s post was on my top tips for breastfeeding support). Today’s theme is about the end of breastfeeding journeys,  so I was going to write about pregnancy and breastfeeding, stopping feeding with Eliza and then starting again with Florence. But…

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  • Ten tips for breastfeeding support

    August 6, 2015

    Are you breastfeeding your baby? Here are ten tips for breastfeeding support… Are you breastfeeding your baby? I’ve been breastfeeding now for nearly three and a half years in total, and during that time breastfeeding support has proved vital to help us on our feeding journey. So here are all the people – groups, products…

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  • The trip

    August 3, 2015

    We’re up in Sheffield this week visiting Alex’s family. It’s our second long train trip in a week as we’re just back from a week in Bournemouth at my parent’s house.

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  • How not to do bedtime

    July 31, 2015

    Bedtime is the last event in the parenting Olympics, isn’t it? It’s the final hurdle, with the finishing line – sofa and wine – tantalisingly within touching distance. But you don’t get a medal, and win or lose you’re awarded the same opportunity to do it again the next day. And then over and over…

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  • (Bed)room for two

    July 26, 2015

    Siblings sharing bedrooms…does it work? Is it a lovely and cosy vision of harmony, or a complete logistical nightmare? I ask because this is our future plan, but we’re staying my parent’s house this week and I’m still recovering from this evening’s attempts to get both girls to go to sleep in one room. They were…

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