Just when you have gotten your little ones into some sort of sleep routine and life begins to get ‘normal’ it starts… Our of nowhere, your perfectly happy little one starts waking in the night. She cries, she is scared and is hard to settle. She has had her first nightmare. Life is rough for […]
I don’t really do new year’s eve or new year’s resolutions, but as we had been away over Christmas, I can’t deny that it has felt like a really good time to make a fresh start… My own new years resolutions were simple: get my driving license start a new journal and keep writing in it […]
A step by step plan from birth to one year. Having a baby puts an incredible amount of stress on your body, both physically and emotionally, and is a major change to the routine you’ve been used to, whether it’s your first, second or third child (or more!). The most valuable piece of advice I […]
For the month of September Im doing an E-Lab with Mama Scout. Its hard to define it absolutely, but it is about creatively connecting with your family and yourself. Im really enjoying it (though wish I had more time to immerse myself in it) and it is definitely inspiring some change in my thinking, and […]
Some mornings I wake up, often with a baby big toe wedged between my teeth, and think, I’m going to do that proper mothering today. I’m going to be creative and patient and nurturing, and do singing, and point to things in the sky and on the floor and repeat words over and over and […]
… and how you can help! There is an expectation that babies sleep a lot, 12 hours at night, 4 or 5 hours during the day, that they will start ‘sleeping through the night’ from 6 weeks old, that they can be popped in their cot and they will happily drift off to sleep with […]
Ed and I are going to the Gorey Fete next week and if there’s a bonny baby competition, we’ll probably not enter Sonny as he’s just had a very distressing haircut and now his head looks even wonkier. However, should there be a ‘terrible parenting’ competition, I think we could win it. Here’s why:1) […]