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November 23, 2019

Those mother glances – a poem

Not the disapproving ones you might read about in books or see in films. Not simply the ones with eyes misty in love. But the room temperature checkers, the comfort toy locators, the ‘are they about to tumble’ surveyors, the ingredients stock checkers, the time keepers, the weather gaugers, the rear view mirror performers, the bath water height measurers, the rash investigators, the ‘are they…

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November 22, 2019

HOW I GET THROUGH SOLO PARENTING WHEN MY OTHER HALF IS AWAY

So, maybe I’ve mentioned it before? Once or twice? Ok, possibly 1,367 times; my husband has a job that sees him travel a fair bit. Sometimes long haul, sometimes closer to home. Things get plonked in his diary, sometimes at short notice. And thank goodness, as those things have single handedly paid the bills for much longer than expected given our baby needed heart surgery…

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August 14, 2019

‘Your baby needs open heart surgery…’

These were the words that we heard on June 5th this year. The words that took my legs and turned them to mush. The words that made my own heart break. The words that saw me lifting my face to the sky and begging, desperately pleading, for our little girl to be ok. Fear, guilt, sadness. Boiling over. Staring at nothing, motionless. Staring at everything,…

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July 9, 2019

Toddler grub – 14 months old

So I haven’t used ‘weaning’ in the title of this blog because…are we now weaned? We’re off formula so is that it done? We have completed the weaning mission? Who knows. Since last writing about baby and her food exploits though, a few things have occurred: She had a birthday cake – refined sugar free, more info below She has morning and afternoon snacks Bye…

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May 9, 2019

One year on: my birth story

I read somewhere, some time that the birth of your child is also a bit of a rebirth as a woman. A year on from the early arrival of our girl, I am finally putting finger to keyboard to tap out the story of her welcome to the world. There’s no real reason why it’s taken this long to get this out there. I didn’t…

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May 1, 2019

Holidaying with an 11 month old

I’m sat here in our little Portuguese garden while John nips out for supplies (nappies, wipes and nappy sacks) because we’ve run low. The baby monitor we’ve borrowed from the resort doesn’t work well outside so I’ve propped it up at the exact threshold of the house and garden while I try and catch some morning sunshine. It’s 10.10am. We’ve been out for breakfast and…

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April 20, 2019

Why we kept our pregnancy 100% secret on social media

I cannot believe it was a year ago since I packed up for maternity leave. I’d wanted a nice run into having baby and getting everything ready knowing I could like a lot of people do, bolt accrued holiday on at the end of the leave in case baby came late. At this time, John, Rupes (dog) and I were in our rental house while…

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March 23, 2019

Weaning, part two; 10.5 months

Hokay so here we are again with a further instalment of ‘making it up as I go along’, AKA weaning. Only this time, I am enjoying it more than 3 months ago. Don’t get me wrong, I still have days where I’m like ‘we’ve got NOTHING she can eat in the house, she’s going to STARVE’ and moments where I’m all ‘why oh why am…

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March 12, 2019

GUEST FERTILITY STORY; LOW AMH, ENDOMETRIOSIS & UNSUCCESSFULL IVF

I’m so pleased to be able to share another real fertility story from guest blogger, Claire from Newcastle upon Tyne. Claire has had some real ups and downs but is currently expecting a baby this summer (2019). Claire suffers with endometriosis and also has low AMH. She also had real difficulties even undergoing fertility procedures without falling ill…read on for her full story. The road…

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March 4, 2019

Castor oil therapy for endometriosis (& fertility)

{Caveat: I’m not a medical or alternative therapy professional. Me doing castor oil therapy does not mean you should do it on a whim. I did research into lots of different things to help my endometriosis and settled on this as one of them, with a particular personal interest of mine on how it is also said to help fertility.} In line with Endometriosis Awareness…

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Hi! Thanks for swinging by…You’ll see posts about being a new mum after years of trying and fumbling through all that, some bits about wellbeing and likely a house extension project because are you even a blogger if you don’t do up a house? I live a little north of London with Mr G, Elodie Willow our precious bubs and Rupert the mini sausage dog.

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