Eco-Friendly Family Life
My darling baby girl:
You are now six months old.
Please, stop growing.
I can hardly believe it was only six months ago that you were born: A tiny, red, wrinkled bundle of pure joy, and complete innocence.
You’ve grown so much and have developed into the little human you are now, with her own cheeky personality and funny traits.
It makes me so proud to see how far you’ve come.
But please, stop growing.
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Mum and Baby Groups are a fantastic resource for new and not-so-new mums alike.
I’ll admit, before I had a baby myself I wasn’t quite sold on the idea of Mum and Baby groups.
A whole heap of crying babies in one room plus a bunch of strangers with whom the only thing I share in common is that I too recently pushed a little human out of my vagina*?
No thanks, don’t think it’s for me.
Continue reading “6 Reasons Why Mum and Baby Groups Are Awesome”
Recently I posted on Instagram relating to mental health, parenting, productivity, and that feeling of having not gotten anything “done”.
The post got such a fantastic response, so I wanted to expand on that topic a little more here.
Continue reading “Measuring ‘Productivity’ by the Little Things”
The postpartum stage is a beautiful, difficult, overwhelming mess of a time. It’s a shock to the system, whether it’s your first child or fourth.
I know I had a tough time adapting to motherhood and all that comes with it after the birth of my baby girl, Ada: The sleeplessness, the full-body exhaustion, the mental load of postpartum.
To help any other soon-to-be mothers out there, I’ve compiled a list of my postpartum essentials – just like I did with my pregnancy essentials list – to help you through this hectic time.
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Motherhood is hard.
Harder than I ever thought it would be.
There, I said it.
Everyone acts like being a mum is this blissful little bubble that feels like rainbows and butterflies 24/7.
In actual fact, motherhood is a rollercoaster – yes, it soars upwards into those moments of heaven on earth, but then catapults into stunning depths of stomach-sinking emotions.
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Tracksuit pants, endless cups of tea, Netflix binges, and napping with my baby – Life in isolation from Coronavirus, or COVID-19, on a day-to-day basis isn’t all that different from my life as a mum on maternity leave, but with a crushing weight of anxiety and a whole heap of life disruption sprinkled (or, rather – poured heavily) on top.
We’ve all been affected one way or another by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Either you’re self-isolating to help flatten the curve of the outbreak and keep others safe (Or you’re refusing to do so, complaining that your football has been cancelled, protesting that this has all gone “too far” and think it’s all a bunch of bullshit – in which case: You, my friend, are bullshit).
You or someone you love may be in actual quarantine with symptoms or following exposure to the virus. You may be working from home or unable to work at all. Your children may not be able to attend school or nursery.
Continue reading “Fears and feelings on COVID-19 pandemic”