birth

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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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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I Only Whisper

Before I even decided to get pregnant, I knew there was a choice I needed to make. There were so many things I wanted to do – like go back to University and become a forensic scientist, travel the world, climb mountains (not figuratively, actual mountains). But I knew that I wanted to be a [...]

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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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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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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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