Hi mama! I honestly can’t believe I’m writing this as a mum of a 1 year old. It’s true what they say, it really does go so fast. It feels like yesterday that I was pregnant with Jacob, but it’s funny because at the same time I look back now and see a totally different …
I recently read Giovanna Fletcher’s latest book, Letters on Motherhood (which I highly recommend) and it got me thinking about who I would write a letter to. I would write a letter to pregnant me, and any other first time pregnant mamas. So here it is… Dear mama-to-be, Congratulations! You’ve probably been waiting for those …
In the next few weeks, I’m going to be finishing 12 months of Maternity leave and heading back to work. So how do I feel about it? Oddly, I’m really looking forward to it. I know after about a week I’ll be pulling out my hair but even in this time of uncertainty, I think …
So Jacob is now 10 months and we are creeping towards that 1 year milestone. It seems so strange to even imagine what the next few months are going to bring, it’s just so sad to think that whatever happens, it’s unlikely to be what we thought it would. But I’m not going to start …
I think that I’ve always been an anxious person. I remember being as young as primary school age and worrying about the silliest things. I would lose sleep over something someone said to me in the playground. Growing up I internalised a lot of it until it was dragged out of me, my mum could …
It would be easy for me to look back on my labour with disappointment, but in all honesty whenever someone asks me about it, the first image that pops into my head isn’t the 48 hours of unbearable pain and the birth plan that went wrong, but the image of Jacob being placed on my …
9 months.. I feel like we’re edging closer and closer to that one year mark. And I can’t quite believe that in a few months time, I’ll have a one year old and will be back in work. But I’m trying to stay positive! I actually think going back to work is going to be good …
How we started I have been married for just over 2 years, and been ‘dating’ my husband for over 5. After meeting, we moved in together after 5 months and over the next 5 years we rented a flat, got engaged, bought a house, got married, got pregnant and became parents. It’s been BUSY! Getting through …
Before I became a mum, only one of my best friends was already a mum. I remember telling her first that I was pregnant because I knew how excited she would be for me, and she cried.. and cried and cried. She was over the moon for me, and she knew what I had ahead …
I had always known that I wanted to breastfeed. My mum breastfed all 7 of us and always talked about what a positive experience it was. I was quite naïve and didn’t really think that it would be anything but positive. Now that I’ve started to wean Jacob off the boob I’ve been reflecting back on …