babies

The first week with a newborn

I started this when I came home from the hospital. It’s taken me four weeks to write these few words. Yes, I’m just a little bit busier than I thought I would be. ***************** March 16 2008 Day Zero I’m moved to the post-natal ward. I can’t feel anything from the waist down which is [...]

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A birth announcement. Finally!

He’s here! This is Edward, my perfect fourth son, born on Sunday after a 48 hour labour and weighing 8lbs 12 oz. I’m exhausted but I will post more as soon as I’ve had some sleep. If you don’t hear from me you can assume my bed has swallowed me whole. *********** Sorry if you’ve [...]

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Thirteen weeks pregnant: birth stories

I’m all ‘booked in’, the phrase used by the midwives here to get you into the system and under the care of the midwife team. An hour long visit by the midwife covered all my medical history and the pregnancies and births so far. ‘Harry was forceps, William was an emergency C-section and although Ben’s [...]

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Screamer and the blessing of motherhood

Ben, a busy, busy nineteen-month-old, has become a screamer. I sort of remember his older brothers going through a similar phase and being similarly fed up with it, but this time it feels like a pick-axe through the brain. Did it feel like that last time? I can’t remember. That’s the blessing of motherhood: you [...]

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How do you decide whether or not to have another baby?

Updated: Okay, sorry about the comments not working. I’m not sure what I did to break them and I’m even less sure what I did to fix them. In short, never ever hire me as your blog site designer. *********** A little while ago Geepeemum asked me whether, as she has two beautiful children, a [...]

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A birth story

My newborn is now ten weeks old. I haven’t posted the birth story yet because I wanted to get a little distance from it so I could write objectively about it. So I can say completely objectively, it. was. awful. I’m probably breaking some mothers’ code about not saying how awful childbirth can be but, [...]

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