Pregnancy & Birth

A baby boy at twenty-two. I will start, as I did in life, with Leo. My pregnancy was a surprise. Cradling a tiny pink baby against my chest my twenty-two-year-old…

A complicated pregnancy.  Months have passed since Norah was born and already there are grey, smudged spaces invading my memory. Exhaustion, pain and the clever innate ‘forget’ mechanism that keeps…

Don’t tell me how to have a baby. Pregnancy, I have come to realise it is not always, or often, coupled with simplicity. When I had my son I was…

What is a Birth Plan? Sometime around 32 weeks pregnant my baby app encouraged me to consider creating one. The app highlights many things, some useful, some not. I am…

Everything you will need for your baby for the first six weeks, and a few things you don’t. Buying for a new baby can be overwhelming, especially for first time…

#Justfeed You would have to be living in a parental cave not to be aware of the debates between bottle and breast feeding babies and which option is considered ‘best’.…

Less midwife appointments second time around. Yay or nay? Twenty one weeks in with foetal passenger number two and I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed. Perhaps disappointed is…

What it is? Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) is debilitating morning sickness on evil overdrive. It is not regular morning sickness. It’s your worst hangover and the Noroviruses psychotic older sister. It’s…

I had the perfect birth plan, then I went into labour. Two days early. At two am I am woken by a simultaneous sound and sensation. A pop, a snap,…

I went naked sunbathing the other day. Now there is a way to begin a blog post. Don’t panic I have not got arrested for public indecency I was solo…