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”
9 things I learned about giving birth
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”