Ten pieces of terrible parenting advice… If you’ve just had a baby, no doubt you are on the receiving end of some terrible parenting advice aimed at you, the new mum, and your newborn… When you have a newborn baby… Have you just had a baby? Congrats! One of my friends just had a baby,…
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The one where I get locked out of the house
Read moreLast Friday morning our front door slammed, leaving me outside with one child, while the other child was inside, alone in the house, on the other side of the door she’d shut. ‘Oh…I’ll…call you back’ I said to my mum, who I was on the phone to at the time. Florence, who I was holding, poked…
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Signs you’re a mum in the autumn
Read moreYou want to hunt down the people letting off fireworks after 8pm and give them a really good telling off (Bonfire Night was ages ago …how is this still happening?)
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Ten things I love about being a mum of two
Read moreWhat is it like, having two children? It’s a question I get asked a lot and indeed one I used to ask a lot when I was pregnant. So a year in what is it like, really? With twelve months under our belt I’d say it’s swings and roundabouts and a see-saw balancing act (mainly…
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10 things that are worse than teething
Read more‘Isn’t teething absolutely brilliant?’ said no mum, ever. Humans. We think we’re so clever, don’t we? But if we are, why on earth have we not yet evolved to the extent that babies can teeth without any pain at all? Answer me that one, Darwin. Maybe we’re just not quite there yet and at some…
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