Parenting posts
I’ll come clean. As a first time mum, I was naive. I wasn’t ‘my baby does x because I’m a perfect parent’ naive or ‘I’ll never give my child a dummy and they’ll only eat organic vegetables and never tantrum in public’ naive. I wasn’t that kind of arsehole (I hope), but I did not appreciate how good I had […]
The perils of a mobile baby Read More >>
A big welcome to any new readers who followed me here from Facebook. As lovely as it is to meet you all, the pressure is on a bit now. Rather than ranting anonymously into the abyss, I feel like I should probably put a bit of thought into attempting to be witty and engaging since ‘coming out’ on Facebook. You
Hell’s teeth: The molars are coming through Read More >>
Today was going so well. As well as a day with a toddler and a baby can go, at any rate. After two decent nights (and I can barely believe that a 5.30am wake up counts as decent, but it does. Childfree people take note) last night was the kind of night where you think it would probably be easier
There is nothing that delights me more than a Shit Parenting Meme. I am fortunate, perhaps, that the majority of my Facebook friends are fairly intelligent decent sorts and my feed is often meme-less, but the occasional doozy does slip through. I have compiled a number of these for your delectation. These have genuinely been shared by friends, friends of
Shit parenting memes Read More >>
I don’t think any parenting blog would be complete today without sharing this wonderful Facebook status rant. Part of me hopes it’s a deliberate troll post (of course, the easiest way for me to make this blog go viral would be to make offensive statements about breastfeeding being close to abuse or how you’re all way more crap at parenting
*That* viral Facebook rant Read More >>
I haven’t updated in a while because, well, there hasn’t really been a lot to update. Potty training went to shit (fortunately figuratively rather than literally) as soon as daddy was back at work. Suddenly weeing on the carpet was more fun than stickers or chocolate. I made the executive decision to bring back the nappies and revisit it in
Big firsts: With two under two I’ll take all the wins that I can Read More >>
I could write a long post about the difficulties of looking after two children. Maybe one day I will*. Things you may take for granted when there’s just the one, like spending all day feeding, going back to bed straight after breakfast, or even just taking twenty minutes (and the rest) to get your baby to take a sodding nap
…From a very tired mummy. Of course I was not foolish enough to stay up to welcome the new year in, however my delightful neighbours treated us all to a half hour firework display at midnight to ensure I wouldn’t miss it. Still, I may have been up with a screaming baby in the small hours last night but on
In that weird time between Christmas and New Year? Why, attack potty training and sleep training together, of course. One for each child. I have a singing potty, a sticker book, carpet shampoo, some earplugs and a timer and three bottles of wine. See you at the other side, if it exists.
I downloaded Timehop for Facebook recently, hoping it would jog my memory about my daughter’s early days. In fact, it appears I never really wrote much before I had a blog to put it all in. However, today’s festive status, posted at 2.44am, was about being up breastfeeding. It’s definitely true that most of the baby stage is wiped from
Breastfeeding: What NCT neglect to tell you Read More >>
