First, allow me to preface this post by saying that I do not care how you choose to parent your child. I am a single working mother, and frankly do not have time to judge you for your actions. This post is merely about my thoughts on a popular parenting Read more…
Arch, he is being such a little shit today! She’s such a little bitch He’s being such a dick She’s such a brat, winding her sister up… This week, a particular blog post has been very popular. It’s about “how to visit friends with children” and begins with “children are Read more…
The other day, S and I were talking to a lady and her little girl, who was the same age as S. The mother whispered to me, it’s her birthday today. Just as I was about to start making a big fuss of the child, her mother quickly added, she doesn’t Read more…
S and I went out for the day the other week, with my sister and a friend. While S was happily running around the zoo we were in (more on that in another post) I commented to my friend that I was really lucky with S in that she doesn’t Read more…
I’ve mentioned before that I’m reading Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman; I mentioned it in this post about the difference between a good mother and a good father. I’m really loving this book; it’s made me laugh out loud and also cry out loud. I’m beyond jealous that I cannot Read more…
This is the latest in a series of posts about my experiences of early motherhood. The story begins here. The next morning, a Friday, I woke up and found the ex’s message from the night before. I replied that he knew very well I had not used him for material Read more…
This is one of a series of posts about S’s birth and my first few weeks of motherhood. The first post in the series is here. The morning after I had looked after the ex’s children overnight, I was exhausted and miserable. I could not see a way this was Read more…
This follows on from a series of posts about S’s birth and my first few weeks of motherhood. The first post is here. While I was still pregnant, the ex had told me of his idea to allow him to spend more time with me and the baby – he Read more…
This post is one of a series I have written about S’s birth and first few weeks of life. The first part is here. The next few weeks were very stressful and confusing for me. I have already posted about how the ex hated my midwife, and I was therefore Read more…
This is the latest in a series of posts about my daughter’s birth and first few weeks. The first of these posts can be found here. We came home from hospital on a Thursday afternoon, my sister driving very slowly and carefully. It was raining, and had been almost the Read more…
This post forms part of my Birth Story The first part is here. S came out of NICU on a Saturday afternoon, and I believed we’d probably be going home the next day. Maybe, at a push, the day after. She had been starting to try and feed, and I Read more…
This post follows on from my post about my first day of motherhood, here. The next day, a Wednesday, continued much as the previous one had: I wandered about in a daze, NICU nurses came down every three hours to feed S for me, visitors came and went. I eventually Read more…
This post follows on from my birth story, which can be found here and here…I woke up on the ward in the morning with people bustling around me… my baby was still asleep. Someone brought me some toast for breakfast. A lovely lady came to see me with an electric Read more…
This post follows on from Part 1 here. I woke up at 1am; my contractions had started again. The midwife came in and made sure the monitors were in the right place to pick up the heartbeat and contractions, and told me to call if I needed anything. Between then Read more…
This is S’s birth story. She was due on 13th May, 2012. On Easter weekend then, at the beginning of April, I wasn’t expecting much excitement past eating my body weight in chocolate. I’d had a bad cough, and not slept much. On the Saturday afternoon I sat on the Read more…