first-time parent

Being the first one of your friends to have a baby is really exciting, but it can also be kind of lonely and confusing. You’re starting down a road of baby wipes and breast pads and weak pelvic floor muscles while they might be somewhat bemused by your newfound specialist knowledge of and interest in […]

7 years ago

Fifteen completely mad things. Despite having nine months to prepare for the arrival of your newborn, when they actually come out they can seem, well, pretty alien. It’s a strange experience going from knowing them so intimately that you feel them when they roll around or hiccup inside you to then suddenly being presented with […]

8 years ago

B is for birth plan, breasts, book club and, of course, baby.

8 years ago

As the first of my friends to have a baby, I am now in the difficult position of having to come up with reassuring words for my soon to be first-time mum friends. Reassuring words do not come naturally to me; I’m a bit of an over-truther by nature and so am liable to scare […]

8 years ago

Thirty thoughts I had during my first day as a mum to a newborn baby boy. I often think back to the chaotic very first twenty-fours of parenthood and all the random, disjointed shouty thoughts that plagued me all day. There is probably no other day that is so totally and utterly INSANE in any of […]

9 years ago

That first stretch at home with a newborn as a first-time parent has got to be the most surreal period of anyone’s life. It’s like being gifted a very demanding, high maintenance, thoroughbred pet, without any clear instructions on what to do with it. There’s no shortage of lists of the supposed new baby essentials, […]

10 years ago