Blasted Hormones
A rookie attempt to understand hormones and how they affect emotions, especially post partum, all in the light of Maggie Thatcher’s coiffure.
Read More Blasted HormonesA blog about bébés, boddlers and bilingual parenting.
A rookie attempt to understand hormones and how they affect emotions, especially post partum, all in the light of Maggie Thatcher’s coiffure.
Read More Blasted HormonesFlashback over my pregnancy journeys as I wind down the final trimester of third and final pregnancy
Read More Bumping along – the final instalmentBig news from the FF family
Read More BecomingI’ve been back at work for a few months now. I’ve been juggling like a … clown (that could work both ways) and I’m officially a parent to two littles who are getting larger. Time is flying and life is happening far too quickly. I mostly get sleep, I mostly get sustenance and I even, […]
Read More Baby brain – true fact or un peu de bull?The reality of family life
Read More Balls (and the juggling thereof)I was flicking through some trashy magazines at the hairdressers last week (first time I’ve been solo since pre Bebette days – the hot tea and trash was amazing) and I couldn’t help but notice the number of distressing stories about couples with new babies whose partnership is “on the rocks”. The story goes like […]
Read More Bittersweet bifurcatingThis 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 […]
Read More Baby-makingThe last few weeks have been a far cry from our usual pre-Christmas shenanigans. Both Boddler and Bebette were taken ill, and not just poorly with a Christmas cold, they both had collapsed lungs, also known as chest infections, also knows as pneumonia, bronchitis, also known as hospitalisation and – in Bebette’s case – intensive […]
Read More Bronchi Bébés and the bladdy amazing NHSDespite the fact we were first time parents only last year (!) it is amazing how quickly you forget the highs and lows of newborn life. Here are a few of the things that I had entirely forgotten New bébés are light as a feather. Literally a tiny baby pillow feather. Be warned: if you […]
Read More Bebette: Things I had forgotten about having a newbornAs this shock 2nd pregnancy rapidly races towards the inevitable finish line (panic face) I want to take stock of my beautiful Bebe FF and get lost in his joyousness for one last blog. Ok I know *technically* this whole blog is thus far dedicated to him, but so much has happened since he was […]
Read More Bebe to Big Bro