Image source As you may (or may not!) have read in my goals for 2012, I’m ready to finish working and be a mum. I thought I could do it all. But all it has brought with it is stress and what seems like bad mothering! This is the year. This year I’ll be playing…
Category Archives: Birth
Is it normal for a baby to have a flat spot on their head?
From my research, no. Common and normal are not necessarily the same thing. I have had a draft of this post sitting here for the last 3 months now but have never been game enough to post it as there are SO many babies who have ‘flat spots’ or misshaped heads. I have come across…
Crazy pregnancy questions
Yesterday I was lying down in my Acupuncturists office and my thoughts led me to ‘What was I doing this time last year?’ I don’t often have time to sit down and reflect but I made a conscious effort to go along with these thoughts and guess where it took me? Back to a scary…
The great age gap debate: The Shower Cap
Todays Shower Cap: My latest thoughts are dedicated to my children. Ok, that’s not unusual so more specifically… when to turn ‘child’ into ‘children’. I need someone to give me an answer: What is the perfect age gap between children? Time for all of you party poopers to roll in and tell me there is…
Birth how you want to… errr unless your midwife doesn’t do that!
I was talking to a close friend of mine yesterday who is about 30 weeks pregnant. We were discussing the usual things – how she was feeling, how she felt about having a baby, the questions she had about my pregnancy and birth, her excitements, her concerns, and of course where she would birth. At…
Empowered Birth Awareness Week
5th – 12th September 2011 I recently came across the Empowered Birth Awareness Week Facebook page. I had never heard of it before but I am all for empowered births so I had a quick look – and realised it is this week! I put myself down to attend the ‘event‘. Well, it’s not really an…
