I’m currently on my third lot of night feeds and it really does blow my mind thinking about how many I must have done over the last seven years. In fact it’s probably not a healthy thing to do, working out how much sleep I haven’t had. You wouldn’t think maths has anything to do … [Read more…]
Being a mum automatically makes you thirsty because you never have time to drink. Night feeds however make you even more thirsty than usual and it can become some kind of vicious circle. You drink, you need the loo. You get the raging thirst, you drink, you need the loo. If you’ve never experienced night … [Read more…]
When my eldest was about two months old, we were at the checkout in our local Sainsbury’s waiting to pay. I was bagging up shopping. That week, I had read a story in the newspaper about a super market worker finding a scorpion in a box of bananas. As I but some bananas in my trolley, I … [Read more…]
There’s one thing all mums are guilty of. Maybe dads too, and that is, not really listening to advice. We’re parents for goodness sake. So you gave your baby brandy to sooth teething 60 years ago? Things have changed. The other mothers who weaned their babies on rusks before six months despite the gluten allergy … [Read more…]
