I wanted to write this blog post because it’s a question I have not only asked myself about other women’s pregnancies and babies since Samuel being born in the second trimester, but even prior to his arrival, I could never quite make sense of how those around me struggling with infertility, or having suffered miscarriage […]
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You won’t fall pregnant without treatment: My PCOS journey
Around the age of 22, I decided I wanted to take a break from taking the contraceptive pill. I had been on Dianette for moderate acne for some years, and I just knew it wasn’t doing me any good (that drug is evil in its purest form…for me, anyway!) and I found that my ‘periods’ […]
Where have we been?
Hello! Long time no see. I’m not going to flatter myself by starting this blog post with ‘you’ve probably been wondering why I’ve not been on insta…’, as I’m sure you’ll have coped just fine without seeing my sporadic ramblings and clips of my nutty children over the Summer. That been said…to those of you […]
Birth Story – Part 2
Jack had made a garbled phone call to my Mum to let her know what had happened. It was about 11pm and he could hear Thea very much awake and playing in the background. She had woken up when my Mum arrived and hadn’t re-settled on realising Mummy wasn’t there. It’s always me who comforts […]
Birth Story – Part 1
Our second pregnancy wasn’t planned, but a lovely surprise and a welcome blessing, nonetheless. After the initial 12 weeks of feeling incredibly tired, sick & depressed, all whilst enduring a mammoth sleep regression from Thea and her month-long ear infection to boot, it was pretty much textbook. I knew I didn’t want more than 2 […]
How #MummaMakesItWork
I was adamant throughout my pregnancy that I would continue to live as close to my ‘normal’, ‘pre-pregnancy’ life as possible once the baby arrived. That I would not get ‘lost’ in Motherhood and become detached from the traits of my personality and the characteristics of my lifestyle that made me ‘me’. I called for […]
The End of the ‘Dummy Dash’
Isn’t it incredible how before they’re born, you can raise your hypothetical children in such a particular and methodical way until they’re actually here, and suddenly you begin to play back and cringe at all the times you have described this picture-perfect upbringing to other parents, who for the most part practise enough restraint to […]
“Nothing Changes, if Nothing Changes”
Normally my Saturday evenings are spent at home, in my jammies, usually horizontal, chilling with my husband and largely ignoring one another as we lay side by side, scrolling on our respective phones. Last Saturday was different. I was lucky enough to be invited along to an event at Brighton hidden gem Powder Beauty Boutique […]
“From One Mama, to My Own”
Where do I begin? Everyone always says their Mum is the best in the world, and that may well be true. But in the words of the super sickly Megan Trainor song that I came across when trawling YouTube for ‘Mummy’ songs, ‘you might have a Mom, she might be the bomb, but ain’t nobody […]
Thea’s 1st Birthday
I cannot quite believe our little girl is now one year old! We wanted to do something to celebrate, but since both our families and many of our friends do not live nearby, it meant few of our closest family members would have been unable to travel or to make the date, so we decided to […]
