A few people have asked me what the most useful or essential items you need for a new baby and the reality is this: all your baby needs in the beginning is clothing, a safe place to sleep, a car seat, and some means of getting from A to B (e.g. a pram or a sling – though I would recommend both). You do not need to spend huge swathes of precious maternity money on much else. That said, I’ve compiled a list of the things that I have personally found most useful.
I love a good birth story. Before I was pregnant I would spend ages reading them. Birth always seemed to be this bonkers, beautiful, visceral experience. No two births seemed to be the same. Birth is simultaneously familiar and yet completely unknown: you did biology at school, you’ve seen birth in movies, you’ve watched One Born Every Minute, you’ve read...
They say parents – particularly mothers – are born when their children arrive. I think this is beautiful way to look at it. Becoming a mother has rewritten parts of me down to my very bones and to go through such a metamorphosis without friends seems like an impossible feat.
When my son was three weeks old, I wrote a little brain dump post of the things I had learned so far. He’s now nearly four months old and I’ve learned a heck of a lot since then. Below is another brain dump of the advice/thoughts/tips from a mum who’s three months in. Again, let me stress that I have...
For the last three months, I have been using my boobs to feed my son. It still blows my mind that this is A Thing, and that my enormous son has grown so large and rambunctious because of my boobs. Breastfeeding is truly a unique experience – and one that I do not take for granted. When asked while pregnant...
Being a mum is my favourite thing in all the world but there’s no doubt about it – there are things about motherhood that make me so CROSS. I spend a huge amount of time gazing adoringly at my baby: smiling with him, giggling with him, cheering him on when he farts or poops, chatting to him when he makes...
None of my jeans fit. This shouldn’t really be a surprise given I only gave birth a few weeks ago but still. My jeans don’t fit. I have never enjoyed an easy relationship with my body but I loved being pregnant. I was very lucky to have a smooth and easy pregnancy and it felt like my body was finally...
Several people have asked me recently what we packed in our hospital bag, so I thought I’d pop it into a post on here just in case it’s helpful for any expectant parents. I’ve broken down what we actually used and what we took but didn’t use – though everyone’s experiences will of course be different! I found it a...
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Hello! I had my first baby three weeks ago. While it’s all fresh in my mind, I thought it would be worth writing down all the practical things I’ve learned so far, with first time parents-to-be in mind. This isn’t particularly elegant or deep I’m afraid – turns out it’s quite hard to write beautiful prose on broken sleep…! Some...
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Hello! I’ve had this little blog since 2011, where it started off as a space for me to share recipes and write food features. Over the last few years, life got somewhat busy and this little corner of the internet got rather dusty, with only a handful of posts over the last couple of years. Oops. My life has changed...
We visited South Africa in November and had the trip of a lifetime. I’ve been recommending it to virtually everyone so thought it was high time I write up some recommendations for anyone who’s thinking of visiting. I’ve outlined what we did below and over the next few posts I will cover Cape Town, Franschhoek, Hermanus, Wilderness, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay,...