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Instagram post 2147191624325036174_908534 HELLO to a) Friday b) the weekend and c) anyone who’s main achievement this week was making it through to the end of the week. Life can be busy and overwhelming when you have small children, can’t it, when you’re juggling school runs and work and deadlines and keeping everyone smiling and fetching food and matching socks and wiping stuff up and wiping pen off the table and trying not to be submerged by the emotional load or the looming washing pile while remembering to do homework and all of the stuff, soundtracked by a million snack requests. So it’s OK not to have achieved anything major or shiny, today, this week or year. As getting everyone through the week happy and hugged is an achievement in itself. Here’s to slightly more relaxing weekends, though (My main aim for this one = drinking wine while watching Grand Designs, I reckon, you?)
Instagram post 2144228535447067081_908534 SO, has everyone with a new school starter started full time now? After our long phased start last week was the first full week (finally). How’s it all going? It’s all tentatively fine here so far, I think. Fingers crossed. And despite feeling sad that it had finally happened I’m kind of giddy about all the *time* it gives me. I caught up on work. I worked some more. I did a stereotypical September-sort of the house and made some charity shop trips. I went shopping without feeling guilty that I should be doing something else. I made many an Instagram scroll without hiding my phone behind a cushion. Silver linings, right? ⛅️ This week I’m even going to a gym class...wish me luck! I’m mildly terrified that I’ll be the reddest person ever to have graced the gym. (Also - this photo is what happens when people really, really match places, for @heyitsromeca and @georgina_patient #WhatMamaWoreMonday 👗)
Instagram post 2140163224414633674_908534 Is this it now, weather-wise, until next year? Are we doomed to raincoats on the school run and permanently frizzy hood hair? ☔️ 😭 (on the plus side, red wine and hugging the central heating, right?!) One of my children looked hopefully out of the window this morning at the rivers of water running by and asked ‘Does school get cancelled when it rains?’ Sorry, kiddo. All the school run mums and dads wish. If you’re stuck inside on a rainy day this week, I’m on @iamalisonperry ‘s latest Not Another Mummy Podcast episode, if you want to have a listen, talking about breastfeeding way beyond babydom and how it’s completely and utterly normal, plus loads of other things about babies, boobs and new motherhood (including the thing you don’t get told about c-sections! And *that* scary moment when you bring your new baby home for the first time). Link is in her profile🍈 🍈
Instagram post 2134803283235315644_908534 ‘What are you going to do NOW?’ Is the question everyone asks me when I mention Flo going to school, usually followed by ‘will you go back to work?’ (does everyone who works freelance-type-jobs-from-home get this question?! Although someone did ask this to my friend who’s a doctor). While having my youngest at full-time school instead of part-time nursery means I’ll have more time to do more work, I am looking forward to having some actual breathing space to do amazing things. One of the school mums told the only way she got through the baby sleep deprivation was by telling herself she’d go back to bed every day for a week once her youngest was at school (how amazing?!) I also might listen to some podcasts (ten years behind everyone else!) and I also have loads of grand schemes and plans in mind. 
I suspect the day-to-day reality will involve doing some work without feeling stressed, unloading the dishwasher and then messing around on Instagram before pick-up comes round really, really quickly. It’s nice to dream though, right? What’s everyone else going to do, now?!
Instagram post 2131205434908170217_908534 How are all the new school starters getting on (and the children?!) It’s been going suspiciously well over here but today we had our first case of the school run blues - or greys - this morning when Flo decided a third day at school was far too much and that she’d been in enough this week. She’s loved it when she’s there, but just...wanted to stay at home today (I can totally sympathise!) I was so worried about this as she was only in nursery for two days, and 😭. It’s hard, isn’t it? You can listen and acknowledge and address their fears, but then they’ll still have to go. Anyway, she went in then end and is still on a phased start so I’ll be picking her up shortly (Related...pre-children me: I’ll never bribe my kids! Post-kids me: 👀👀👀) PS new path is nearly done, we just need it not to rain today so we can have it grouted and finished ☔️
Instagram post 2127533910577697655_908534 Here’s to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them and may we see them...It’s all change around here next week as school looms large so we had one last day out with just the two of us yesterday, that turned into a mini tour of inspiring women in one corner of London. Florence chose to go to the @florencemuseum (the clue’s in the name!) which we both really enjoyed - it’s small but very sweet, is beautifully presented and there’s lots of detail for children (although I think my 7-y-o who learned about this era at school could have spent ages in there). We also visited the Mary Seacole statue and park and headed over to Parliament Square to see the Millicent Fawcet statue, both of which are beautiful and powerful and incredibly moving. So yes, school next week then... PS here’s to all of us parents raising future strong women (and here’s the giant cup of soothing tea we all need 😂☕️)
Instagram post 2123913059806616082_908534 It’s SEPTEMBER (how is it already September? When did that happen?) Which only means one thing...it’s time to get the winter coats out. Not really, it means my baby is starting primary school this month 😭 How did this happen, they were just born, right? Three things that are currently terrifying me: 1) What if she hates it?! 2) What happens when she realises it’s five days a week, forever? 3) And what if I cry so much on the first day it’s embarrassing? 😭 I’ve written about those and seven other things that are keeping me up at night about school, over on my blog (link in profile if you want to read). How’s everyone else feeling? Hold me...
Instagram post 2122731545433591509_908534 After a week of going arghhhh 😱(anyone / everyone else?!) we joined hundreds and thousands people in London and all across the UK to say #StopTheCoup 📢 Best sign from today: bus wanker. Who’s coming with me next time?
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    My pregnancy diary in Pregnancy & Birth magazine

    December 11, 2012

    I’m really thrilled to have been asked to appear in the December ‘Pregnancy Diary’ feature in Pregnancy & Birth magazine, along with lots of photos of all three of us (I loved reading P&B when I was pregnant, and also appeared in it last year). Although I did document lots of my pregnancy highs and woes…

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    On fertility problems, and finding out I was pregnant

    June 1, 2012

    Did you suffer from any fertility problems when trying to get pregnant? A year ago this week I found out I was pregnant. It was the biggest shock of my life,  in the best possible way. It was a shock because I’d least expected it to happen then, as we’d been trying for what felt…

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    Pregnancy week 28: baby, one more time

    November 16, 2011

            This week served up a double helping of Crawshaw Jnr sightings; the scheduled 28 week scan, and an unplanned second viewing at my hospital clinic appointment. My very un-sexy thyroid problem can cause issues with growth – hence the extra planned scan – but the good news was everything was fine…

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Instagram post 2147191624325036174_908534 HELLO to a) Friday b) the weekend and c) anyone who’s main achievement this week was making it through to the end of the week. Life can be busy and overwhelming when you have small children, can’t it, when you’re juggling school runs and work and deadlines and keeping everyone smiling and fetching food and matching socks and wiping stuff up and wiping pen off the table and trying not to be submerged by the emotional load or the looming washing pile while remembering to do homework and all of the stuff, soundtracked by a million snack requests. So it’s OK not to have achieved anything major or shiny, today, this week or year. As getting everyone through the week happy and hugged is an achievement in itself. Here’s to slightly more relaxing weekends, though (My main aim for this one = drinking wine while watching Grand Designs, I reckon, you?)
Instagram post 2144228535447067081_908534 SO, has everyone with a new school starter started full time now? After our long phased start last week was the first full week (finally). How’s it all going? It’s all tentatively fine here so far, I think. Fingers crossed. And despite feeling sad that it had finally happened I’m kind of giddy about all the *time* it gives me. I caught up on work. I worked some more. I did a stereotypical September-sort of the house and made some charity shop trips. I went shopping without feeling guilty that I should be doing something else. I made many an Instagram scroll without hiding my phone behind a cushion. Silver linings, right? ⛅️ This week I’m even going to a gym class...wish me luck! I’m mildly terrified that I’ll be the reddest person ever to have graced the gym. (Also - this photo is what happens when people really, really match places, for @heyitsromeca and @georgina_patient #WhatMamaWoreMonday 👗)
Instagram post 2140163224414633674_908534 Is this it now, weather-wise, until next year? Are we doomed to raincoats on the school run and permanently frizzy hood hair? ☔️ 😭 (on the plus side, red wine and hugging the central heating, right?!) One of my children looked hopefully out of the window this morning at the rivers of water running by and asked ‘Does school get cancelled when it rains?’ Sorry, kiddo. All the school run mums and dads wish. If you’re stuck inside on a rainy day this week, I’m on @iamalisonperry ‘s latest Not Another Mummy Podcast episode, if you want to have a listen, talking about breastfeeding way beyond babydom and how it’s completely and utterly normal, plus loads of other things about babies, boobs and new motherhood (including the thing you don’t get told about c-sections! And *that* scary moment when you bring your new baby home for the first time). Link is in her profile🍈 🍈
Instagram post 2134803283235315644_908534 ‘What are you going to do NOW?’ Is the question everyone asks me when I mention Flo going to school, usually followed by ‘will you go back to work?’ (does everyone who works freelance-type-jobs-from-home get this question?! Although someone did ask this to my friend who’s a doctor). While having my youngest at full-time school instead of part-time nursery means I’ll have more time to do more work, I am looking forward to having some actual breathing space to do amazing things. One of the school mums told the only way she got through the baby sleep deprivation was by telling herself she’d go back to bed every day for a week once her youngest was at school (how amazing?!) I also might listen to some podcasts (ten years behind everyone else!) and I also have loads of grand schemes and plans in mind. 
I suspect the day-to-day reality will involve doing some work without feeling stressed, unloading the dishwasher and then messing around on Instagram before pick-up comes round really, really quickly. It’s nice to dream though, right? What’s everyone else going to do, now?!
Instagram post 2131205434908170217_908534 How are all the new school starters getting on (and the children?!) It’s been going suspiciously well over here but today we had our first case of the school run blues - or greys - this morning when Flo decided a third day at school was far too much and that she’d been in enough this week. She’s loved it when she’s there, but just...wanted to stay at home today (I can totally sympathise!) I was so worried about this as she was only in nursery for two days, and 😭. It’s hard, isn’t it? You can listen and acknowledge and address their fears, but then they’ll still have to go. Anyway, she went in then end and is still on a phased start so I’ll be picking her up shortly (Related...pre-children me: I’ll never bribe my kids! Post-kids me: 👀👀👀) PS new path is nearly done, we just need it not to rain today so we can have it grouted and finished ☔️
Instagram post 2127533910577697655_908534 Here’s to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them and may we see them...It’s all change around here next week as school looms large so we had one last day out with just the two of us yesterday, that turned into a mini tour of inspiring women in one corner of London. Florence chose to go to the @florencemuseum (the clue’s in the name!) which we both really enjoyed - it’s small but very sweet, is beautifully presented and there’s lots of detail for children (although I think my 7-y-o who learned about this era at school could have spent ages in there). We also visited the Mary Seacole statue and park and headed over to Parliament Square to see the Millicent Fawcet statue, both of which are beautiful and powerful and incredibly moving. So yes, school next week then... PS here’s to all of us parents raising future strong women (and here’s the giant cup of soothing tea we all need 😂☕️)
Instagram post 2123913059806616082_908534 It’s SEPTEMBER (how is it already September? When did that happen?) Which only means one thing...it’s time to get the winter coats out. Not really, it means my baby is starting primary school this month 😭 How did this happen, they were just born, right? Three things that are currently terrifying me: 1) What if she hates it?! 2) What happens when she realises it’s five days a week, forever? 3) And what if I cry so much on the first day it’s embarrassing? 😭 I’ve written about those and seven other things that are keeping me up at night about school, over on my blog (link in profile if you want to read). How’s everyone else feeling? Hold me...
Instagram post 2122731545433591509_908534 After a week of going arghhhh 😱(anyone / everyone else?!) we joined hundreds and thousands people in London and all across the UK to say #StopTheCoup 📢 Best sign from today: bus wanker. Who’s coming with me next time?
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