The past 8 weeks have passed in a blur of feeding, burping, settling and weighing wee Pickle. I feel like I haven’t had a minute to collect my thoughts much less write and publish them, so I’m in awe of some of the ALI bloggers I follow who have become new mamas and managed to keep […]
After scheduling a c-section for breech presentation for next Tuesday morning, my waters gushed at 9pm last night at 38 weeks, 5 days. Baby was delivered just after midnight on the 21st May by emergency C – just in time for my 43rd birthday tomorrow! She’s a wee 2.6kg (about 6 lbs) but perfectly formed
The first time I heard about meditation I was ten years old. My Mother had just given me a book for my birthday called ‘Meditation for Children’. Although an avid reader, I was unimpressed and uninterested in this particular book. I didn’t like my Mother telling me what to do, especially if it was in
I just dropped Pickle at her orientation for occasional care – a two hour session in preparation for one day in care a week. And I’m sitting in the library next door thinking what should I do with my time? I have a long list of things that need doing, but the thing that
Marcy completely called it. Yes it has also been a ghost town around here. Parenting an infant takes a lot of time and energy and I have been using what little time I have to myself to do stuff (or sleep) rather than write about stuff. My IF feed has really slowed. The fact