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The Backslide

The Backslide

When Riley was about 14 months old she started reliably sleeping through the night and no needing my presence to get to sleep. Up until that point she was up three or more times a night and at nap time I would need to rock or stroke her to sleep. Perhaps it was because I [...]

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Favourite Blog Posts of 2009

Favourite Blog Posts of 2009

I read Best Blog Posts of 2009 at Scary Mommy and thought it was a pretty cool idea – if I have only got 6 months to choose from. I started this blog in July, thinking that it would be fun to do every now and then, but it quickly became more addictive than I’d [...]

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10 Things I Didn’t Read in What to Expect

10 Things I Didn't Read in What to Expect

1. Babies Never Settle into a Routine, Ever As soon as you get used to one thing, they change it. And then they change it again. 2. Dirty Nappies are the Least of Your Concern You may think that changing dirty nappy after dirty nappy is the worst part of having a newborn but really [...]

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Crying It Out to Create Soldiers

Crying It Out to Create Soldiers

“War babies cry it out shut down’ was a search term on google that landed not just one person on my site, but two this week. A little odd, but it reminded me of the Channel 4 Show: Bringing Up Baby which attempted to measure the successes and shortcomings of three different parenting methods for [...]

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Things I Learnt in My First Year – Part II

Things I Learnt in My First Year - Part II

Sleep is for the Weak! I have to say that I never really thought that much about baby’s sleep while I was pregnant. I vaguely remember my father saying that I wouldn’t get a solid night sleep for the next two years and thinking he was a lunatic. I also remember reading What to Expect [...]

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Death of a Perfectionist

Death of a Perfectionist

I admit it – I am a reformed perfectionist. The first time I wrote a prologue I re-wrote it hundreds of times until it was ‘perfect’. That is not an exaggeration by the way, literally hundreds of times – on a manual typewriter no less! I had flirted with the idea of ditching my perfectionism [...]

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Tuning out the noise . . .

Tuning out the noise . . .

I was never very good at keeping my mouth shut about anything, although post-baby this is a skill that I am apparently honing. When I was pregnant it amazed me how many people believed that they were entitled to have a say in what I should/should not do/eat/drink etc. and if anything that gets much [...]

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Things I Learnt in My First Year – Part 1

Things I Learnt in My First Year - Part 1

It’s Never as Easy as It Seems . . . It seems impossible to start a series on all the things I learnt in my first year as a mother without starting at the beginning with breast-feeding. It Didn’t Come Naturally (At First) I had always assumed with all the beautiful images I had seen [...]

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