“Is she sleeping throught the night yet?” Ahhh… That immortal question you are asked more than any other. It tops the tops in the repetitive baby questions chart – more than: “Is it a girl or a boy?” (she’s wearing pink – what do you think love?!) “How old?” or “How are you finding it?”. …
I wanted to write a post about the current method in 3rd stage labour of instantly clamping and cutting the cord when babies are born. There is so much evidence to suggest this is not the best idea, and the most advantageous thing for the baby is to wait (at least) 3 minutes until the …
“Baby formula milk should come with a health warning” That is the message this week from Save the Children, the children’s charity. I’m really hoping that this quote has been taken out of context by the media. Formula already carries the message that “breast is best” but they want formula packaging to carry a much bigger …
One thing no one is really brutally frank with you about when you are pregnant is what will happen on your first night home from hospital. But let’s be honest – that’s probably a good thing. If there were a list of things not to do to when pregnant (to save your sanity) you could …
OK so another righteous ramble of mine about the dated methods of labour that still seem to be the majority and still are viewed as the “norm” (I am pleased to see opinion slowly changing on this one). So let’s talk just dive RIGHT in there and I’ll ask a (personal) question… When you are …
I thought I’d write a list of things that I found very useful when my little one was just born as I was just thinking the other day about things that have become to be a ‘can’t live without’ and things that were a waste of money – the latter I will write a list … Continue reading »
My god you look huge!! One born every minute is on!! Did I tell you about the tear/cut I had in labour? Being pregnant isn’t hard – having children is the hard bit I never lost the baby weight – not matter how hard I tried My labour was short – 48 hours Don’t be … Continue reading »
