Babies, pregnancy and beyond
As it is often said, ‘The best parents are the ones without children’, and I was certainly no exception. Like most during pregnancy, I was living in a state of blissful ignorance and had many preconceived notions about motherhood and what I would be like as a parent. I had it allll figured out. Since then, our little bundle has arrived and I look back and realise just how innocent I was, how naïve… Continue reading “Life with a newborn baby: expectation vs reality”
Well it’s difficult to summarise down to just 14 things, because to be honest I knew diddlysquat about newborn babies, let alone living with one. But here are a few things that I learned once home with our new human (because it turns out they actually let you leave the hospital without any training or anything). So from one new mum to another (or even mums-to-be), have a read and take comfort in the knowledge that the struggle is real and you are not alone… Continue reading “14 things it helps to know about the first week of motherhood”
I didn’t want my first blog post to be overly negative, but it turns out evicting a human from your ladyspace is far from a glamorous procedure, and as it’s still relatively fresh in my mind (and vagina) I thought I would put together a brutally honest account of some of the things I learned during labour and after giving birth. Not rated PG. Continue reading “9 things I learned about giving birth”