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The Squishy

Piper Ebony (aka ‘the squishy’) has arrived! She was born at 12:50pm on Friday, weighing in at a very slight 2.8kg (or 6 pounds 2 oz). She didn’t have to be induced and was delivered via VBAC. If I could have taken more drugs I would have. As it was, other than the initial morphine [...]

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Nothing to See Here

I have officially crossed over from pleasantly zen to totally over it. I’m a generally patient person, but even I have limits. It’s probably not a good sign that baby goog is already testing said limits before actually being born. But I can’t say that I’m overly surprised. This is where I start to get [...]

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Calm Blue Ocean

So it’s not actually an ocean, it’s a lake. And this is the local lake on a good day. Most days it resembles much more of a swamp. And on pretty much all days it smells that way. But it’s the idea of the calm blue ocean more than anything that I’m attempting to channel. [...]

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Guest Post @ The Feminist Breeder – Skipping Chapters

I’m guest posting today at The Feminist Breeder. You can check it out here. filed in

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My Birth Story

I’ve written about Riley’s birth in bits and pieces but never really told the whole story from beginning to end. And as this is my 300th post, it seemed like I good idea. I was overdue. I hadn’t had any contractions or braxton hicks contractions for that matter, or so I thought. I felt as [...]

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Great Expectations

This is a joint post with Amber at Unlikely Mama. You can follow her on twitter here. We thought it would be fun to look back on what our expectations were before we had our babies and how they’ve changed a year on (for Amber) and two years on (for me). Having Children Amber: Let [...]

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Just Wonderful: Love and Partners and Natural Parenting

Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to [...]

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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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A Letter

For a while now I’ve wanted to write a letter to the Googy – and after reading other letters here, here and here, was finally inspired to do exactly that. All letters like this begin exactly the same way. I can’t believe you’re 18 months old. Little people make time speed up. It’s true and not [...]

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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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