I became a parent in November 2009 and, as the cliché goes, my world turned upside down. PHP posts turned to pregnancy, midnight gaming turned to midnight (and 1am, and 2am, and ...) feeds. Here lies documented tales of poop, boobs, toddler tantrums and the nitty gritty that goes with being Mum.
Non-parenting readers will have to bear with me while I complete my experiment ;) Yesterday Izz spent most of the day in cloth, with no leakages! My mum picked me up late morning and we went to Boots to get some terries/pins/waterproof pants (until I can afford some nice wraps) and she showed me various… read full entry »
A couple of weeks ago, I sat down and worked out how much we’ve spent on disposable nappies in 7 months. It turned out to be some ridiculously huge figure like £120. As Izz gets bigger and the size of the nappies get bigger, the price per pack gets more extortionate and you get less… read full entry »
There’s a thread on one of the forums I read, “Did you plan on being a natural parent?” Hahaha, I don’t think anything could be further from the truth. I had two plans: 1) that I’d breastfeed, and 2) that I’d try for a ‘natural’ birth to decrease the risks of buggering up plan 1…. read full entry »
When I was in school, my drama teacher told the class a story about women in Africa who’d been given Nestle formula milk samples shortly after they’d had a baby. They used the samples, believing that formula was superior to their breast milk, which led to their milk drying up. Because their milk had dried… read full entry »
I realised earlier that I’ve not updated on Isabel in a while. I tend to assume you all know what’s going on in my daily life, which is a ridiculous notion even if I do tweet about it a lot. So, Izz is 6 months old. She’s been sitting unsupported for about 2 weeks, give… read full entry »
I am seriously without words at the moment at the way some people choose to parent. I thought forcing early weaning was bad enough, but then I found this thread… I wont let her grnadparent put pillows behind her when she is sat on the floor saying “the more she falls the sooner she’ll learn”… read full entry »
A lady on babycentre started a thread for people she’d like to thank for helping her as a new parent, and I wanted to contribute… but also wanted the people I’m thanking to see it, so I thought I’d pop it here too :) So, I would like to thank… My mum, for breastfeeding me… read full entry »
It was Karl’s birthday on Monday, so to celebrate the day and to fill in a bank holiday, we went to Acton Scott Historic Working Farm. Acton Scott was featured in a BBC series “Victorian Farm” in 2009, which we’d watched when it was broadcast, so it was actually a great way to follow up… read full entry »
So, clearly being one of these crazy rambling mummy types now it’s only logical that I browse a few of those crazy rambling mummy type forums. The first baby-oriented site I joined was babycentre. It’s shite; loaded down with adverts and full of total muppets who shouldn’t be allowed to breed. However, that aside, there… read full entry »
Confession time: we co-sleep. Shock! Horror! Apparently this is going to cause me to roll onto and murder my child, yadda yadda yadda. It’s all accidental of course. I didn’t plan to co-sleep, and we didn’t start this way. Still, when you’re feeding a newborn who’s waking every few hours for a feed there’s nothing… read full entry »