I don’t normally run commentary on news stories, but the story in the Manchester Evening News today really got me (and a lot of other people) a little bit riled up.
- 1o'clock club
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- activism
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- babyshower
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- Better for Babies
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- birthday
- Bloggers Living Naturally and Consciously
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- Bonding
- book
- BPA
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- bread
- breast
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- breastfeeding; campaign;
- breastmilk
- breast pump
- Bronchitis
- budget
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- camping
- camping with a baby
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- childbirth
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- child health
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- Chistmas
- chocolate
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- cloth
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- Cloth Nappies
- co-sleeping
- conference
- cooking
- cover
- Crackers
- crafting
- creativity
- crying baby
- cry it out
- culture
- cupcakes
- dad
- daddy
- dads
- dangers
- daughter
- Day Out
- death
- decoration
- decorations
- desert
- detox
- development
- diapers
- difficult
- dinnerpar
- disaster
- discount
- documents
- domestics
- doula
- Dreaming of her future
- East Dulwich
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- eco living
- eczema
- edible plants
- elimination communication
- emotions
- empowering
- England
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- equipment
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- expanding horizons
- expressing
- F1
- family
- family history
- father
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- Fear
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- food recipes; food; recipes; breastfeeding; breastmilk
- foraging
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- frustration
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- godparents
- Grand Prix
- growing
- growth spurt
- guest post
- guidance
- Haiti
- hand made gifts
- hard
- healing
- health
- healthy
- helping
- herbal
- herbal medicine
- herbs
- holiday
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- homebirth
- hospital
- hot chocolate
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum
- i am woman
- invitations
- jewellery
- kids
- kindness
- kisses
- learning
- legal right
- letters to Kyra
- letter to my daughter
- life in general
- London
- Looking back
- loss
- love
- manners
- march
- medicine
- memories
- midwife
- milk
- Mommytography
- money saving
- monkey
- mother
- Motherhood
- mothering
- music
- nappies
- nappy bag
- nappy rash
- natural
- Natural Birth
- natural healing
- Natural Parenting Blogs
- nature
- Night Out
- nursing in public
- officials
- opera
- organic
- Out and About
- outdoors
- outing
- pain
- papercraft
- paracetamol
- parenting methods
- park
- Parks
- party
- photographs
- Photography
- photos
- pictures
- plants
- play
- point of view
- poo
- potty
- potty learning
- Prague
- pregnancy
- prepare ahead
- project
- protectivenes
- Quality time
- Rain
- Reading
- recipe
- recycling
- Red Tape
- relationship
- relaxation
- Resolutions
- resources
- respect
- review
- Reviews
- Role model
- safety
- SAHM
- salad
- saving
- savings
- science museum
- seminar
- sexual offences
- sharing the love
- shoes
- shopping
- Sickness
- SIDS
- sleep
- sleepless nights
- Sleep Training
- sling
- smile
- snow
- south africa
- special offer
- Spring
- stay at home
- stranger danger
- struggle
- summer recipes
- sun cream
- support
- sustainable living
- sweet
- sweets
- sweet tooth
- swimming
- technorati
- Teething
- thank you
- time
- toilet
- toilet learning
- toilet training
- tommee tippee
- Tonsilitis
- toothache
- Top 10
- toys
- training cups
- travel
- traveling
- traveling with a baby
- upbringing
- valentines
- Vitamin C
- voice
- walk
- waterbirth
- week in pictures
- with a toddler
- workshop
- Yoga
- zoo
Whose Baby Is It Anyway?
New parents are bombarded with information from their first visit to a medical professional, throughout their pregnancy and the early days of their babies’ lives. My daughter is only ten months old, and as far as I can tell, this doesn’t stop for some time.
The problem with this is that so much of your pregnancy, birthing experience and early motherhood is influenced and affected by the opinions of the person you’re listening to. And I do specifically use the word opinion, because being a doctor, paediatrician or midwife does not, in fact, make you an authority on any of these.
If I Should Die…
Dear Kyra,
As I lay feeding you tonight, watching your eyes grow heavy and your breath deepen, I wondered what you would want to know about me one day, if I were to die. I imagined you sitting on a beach, lost in thought. I imagined your Aunty coming to you, and I imagined you asking her about me. It made me sad, seeing you there, staring at the stars and the waves, with your toes digging holes and your fingers massaging the sand as I love to do.
I wondered what she would say; what people would tell you, if I were gone.
For the Love of Co-Sleeping
I love co-sleeping with my daughter, Kyra. She was born at 4.40am, and by 6am we were asleep in our bed, her cradled in my arm. She used her Moses basket for a while and uses a travel cot now for daytime naps and in the early evening, but once I go to bed she is there with me.*
365-98 to 365-104 A Week in Pictures
Our weeks are sometimes so diverse, it’s hard to find a common theme. This is one of those weeks. From Folkstone to Norway, a bit of London, some nature and some routine, but always two constants: the people I love in the life we live.
Taming the Tigress – the Protective Parent
I’m a Gaga Mama
I was accused recently in an article I wont give credence by linking to, of being ‘gag worthy’ for a post I wrote when my daughter was four weeks old, in which I took a humorous look at the things that have changed in my life since becoming a mother.
This person went further and said that I ‘perpetuated the myth’ of all the tough times being worth it, and that I was toeing the party line.
Said the Bitch to the Cow
As a species, women are quite hard to understand. There, I said it.
We fill the complete spectrum with our differences, yet at our basic core, we are not all that dissimilar. We all have basic needs of love, acceptance, belonging and so on.
Why, then, do we bash each other, berate each other’s viewpoints and pile on guilt where extra isn’t needed?
E45 Giveaway and Eczema Resources
Yesterday I shared with you the main points covered by speakers at the Against Childhood Eczema Launch event in London. Today I’d like to continue by looking at some of the suggestions they offered and what to avoid, as well as the products recommended by the representative from the National Eczema Society, Margaret Cox and Dr Steve Hewitt, a skin specialist for E45
Uncomfortable Truths about Childhood Eczema
My mom suffers from eczema. Actually calling her skin condition eczema is like calling the Sistene Chapel a painting: somewhat of an understatement. I’ve been blessed to never suffer much from eczema myself, yet unfortunate enough to see the effects of it in its worst form. Whenever my daughter, Kyra, develops as much as a spot, my heart skips a beat and my stomach clenches and I watch the redness till it goes away, so afraid am I that this condition may have skipped a generation and passed on to her.
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