Tag Archive: Birth

Giveaway. Competition. Free stuff. I’m excited!

I am here to announce that the super lovely people at Simon and Schuster Publishers have sent me a book to use for a giveaway. A book, you ask? Well it’s not just any book. It is this book: Image source Mum told me about this book and about Mayim a few weeks ago. That…

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…

Evangeline’s birth story

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 event but in the world…