Baby-making

This post has been difficult to write. It is about baby-making. Hold that thought: I’m not going to tell you about the birds and the bees. I’m confident you probably have a rough idea of the physical actions required to get all the ingredients in the right place. What you possibly don’t appreciate is what […]

Bumpologie: the magic of pregnancy

As I reflect, in the last days of my second pregnancy, on the experience of being pregnant and growing a couple of people in my abdomen, honestly I am still baffled by what has just happened. Je suis complètement bafflé (nb: not a real word – the French would never confess to such a state […]

Back to work

This week I went back to work. It was one of the hardest weeks of my life. I cried. I was tired. I was grumpy. I was a terrible wife and barely spoke to my husband at all (sorry Monsieur FF). But you know what: I survived. WE survived. I was really happy to be […]

Body Combat

People say your body will change when you have a baby. Those people are right. (Again, dammit). Even when your belly has eventually deflated, and your boobies too, you seem to be just a bit bigger, saggier and wider everywhere. The unofficial rule “9 months on, 9 months off” seems fair when you’re not actually […]

Boobies, Breasticlés, Amazeboobs

WARNING: This post contains graphic boobie-related content. If you don’t have boobs, I suggest you don’t read this. You may be traumatised. As someone* once said: “I don’t care about amazeballs, what about these amazeBOOBS?!” *probably As this week is apparently world breastfeeding week it seems opportune to celebrate the wondrous balls that are higher up, the […]

Baby steps

Having a bébé is a big deal and it is not all cute babygrows, nursery rhymes and cake (although it is a lot of that). I had not fully appreciated how this journey would change me; not just physically but emotionally. I don’t think you can anticipate the change. It is utterly mind-boggling. This post is […]

B – intro

Welcome to my very first post. Allow me to give you a little context to this blog, before I launch in (mostly this is for my benefit so I can focus my ramblings). Why now? I’ve been meaning to start a blog for yonks. I like writing. I love words. I used to keep a diary, back in […]