June 2008

Daily life with four children under six

The last few months have been busy, tiring, sore and fun. But mostly busy. If I am crazy to have had so many children so close together, I am at least loving every minute of it (OK, maybe not the 3am ones) and somehow I make it through the days without losing my mind. Or [...]

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Ten things that motherhood gives you

From Caitlin Moran, at Alpha Mummy, comes quite possibly the best description of new motherhood I have read: As I discovered in the first few weeks of motherhood, having a newborn is a very special era in your life, when you have so little time that you often have to split having a poo between [...]

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Breast gymnastics

Mastitis has struck. Not a milk blister which was the cause of so much ongoing trouble last time (like for about eight months), but fortunately just a simple blocked milk duct. But, holy crap, if it doesn’t hurt just the same. The baby and I try out all sorts of exotic feeding positions. The best, [...]

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Week three with this new baby of mine: longing

There is no baby more beautiful than mine and nothing you can say will convince me otherwise. Although night times are terrible – the endless cycle of feeding, changing, winding and what feels like only a few minutes of sleep before it all starts again – they are also wonderful because he and I really [...]

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When will my baby sleep through? When?

Why is it that when you most need caffeine to cope with sleep deprivation, you can’t have it? Unless you want a baby that is awake more than it is already (see my Tweets over there on the right, where I’m already complaining). Every one of my children was up at some point last night. [...]

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The first month with a newborn

March 27 2008 The first month with a newborn: umm, nothing gets done. Except feeding, changing nappies and not getting any sleep. In between, you can find me and him like this: Cute, no? But not conducive to getting stuff done, including looking after his three older siblings, none of whom can look after themselves [...]

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