sensitivity

Pre-Baby Jitters

It seems that my first baby is having some pre-baby jitters. Last night she woke up at about 9pm and came out into the lounge room. It rarely happens, but when it does she’s usually pretty easy to get back to sleep as long as she comes back to bed with us, which I don’t [...]

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Too Loud, Lily!

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“Too Loud, Lily!” That’s what Riley says every time she hears a loud noise, while covering her ears with her hands. It’s from a book she has where a rhinoceros (Lily) is too loud for everyone and they keep saying ‘Too Loud, Lily!’ Anyway, it’s stuck. It doesn’t seem to apply to her being loud. [...]

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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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She's Sensitive

I say that alot. Of course she’s particularly sensitive at the moment, with a bad cough and nightmare teething. But even aside from that, she’s a sensitive creature and she probably always will be. I try not to apologise for her sensitivity, even when it’s expected that I will. Or worse, that I will actively [...]

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She’s Sensitive

I say that alot. Of course she’s particularly sensitive at the moment, with a bad cough and nightmare teething. But even aside from that, she’s a sensitive creature and she probably always will be. I try not to apologise for her sensitivity, even when it’s expected that I will. Or worse, that I will actively [...]

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She's Got Her Whole Life to Be Tough

Childcare is one of those things that everyone has an opinion about. It might be that it’s too expensive, or the waiting lists are too long, or it might be something more controversial like it’s ‘good for them’. When I was pregnant I didn’t really think about childcare that much except that I vaguely thought [...]

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She’s Got Her Whole Life to Be Tough

Childcare is one of those things that everyone has an opinion about. It might be that it’s too expensive, or the waiting lists are too long, or it might be something more controversial like it’s ‘good for them’. When I was pregnant I didn’t really think about childcare that much except that I vaguely thought [...]

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