So you have a newborn. And they are so cute, and they smell so good, and they make the cutest sounds ever… and all you want to do is watch them. Your time is consumed with everything baby, you’re still recovering from birth and at times it feels like your body is so foreign to …
Pregnancy cravings strike when you least expect them. When you’re laying in bed at 2am, immediately after you’ve ordered something different for lunch, or when you’re stuck in traffic on the motorway. And you’d do anything to get what you’re craving – regardless of how obscure it is. Pregnancy cravings hit hard and fast. Despite …
Like most mums, I went a little crazy when I had my first baby. I bought just about everything anyone proclaimed I ‘needed’ or that promised to make life easier. For the record, that was a lot of ‘things’. It turns out, I barely used any of them (partially due to my son being in …
I have to admit… I’m quite the minimalist. Not the ‘all my furniture is white and if it doesn’t speak to me I throw it out’ kind of minimalist. But more the ‘do I actually need this’ kind. So when it came to pregnancy, I knew I needed to approach it with the same sort …
For many women, connecting with their baby during pregnancy doesn’t come quite as easily as they thought it might. Perhaps you feel a little awkward during pregnancy, or maybe you feel as though you have to wait until your baby is born to start connecting with them. When I was pregnant, I had debilitating Hyperemesis …
Labour and birth can be likened to running a marathon. You wouldn’t just rock up on the day and hope you make it to the finish line. You wouldn’t prepare yourself mentally, but completely skip the physical prep. Regular exercise in pregnancy is known to promote easier labour and birth. No one could deny they …
To say I was naive about pregnancy and in particular, the postpartum phase is an understatement. In my defence, I knew my son was going to be in NICU and likely to have surgery and all of our birth prep centred around getting him earthside safely and what was going to happen after that. There …
When you think of what life is going to be like when you’re pregnant, there are all these ideas of beautiful moments with your husband, planning the nursery together, cooing over your growing belly – it all seems like a blissful time. How could you possibly drift apart? But with pregnancy comes all kinds of …
If you’re like every other breastfeeding Mama, and have no idea what IS actually a safe level of alcohol to consume, well… the good news is you don’t need to pump and dump! In my naive Student Midwife days, this is what we were taught, and I cringe to think how many women I’ve told …
Many years as a Midwife means the opportunity to see fabulous variations of hospital bags. Some genius, some comical, some a little WTF? There are always a few stand outs – The bags with items grouped and labelled in zip lock bags, my personal fave. Organisation at its finest. The ‘going overseas for 3 months’ …