bye bye boddler, hello toddler

Jeez what is happening with time? I know everyone says it flies, but this is like an extended wedding day on steroids! You blink and you’ve not only missed it, but there’s a trail of destruction to show you just what you missed. We are 14 months in and Bebe FF is now a demi-man. […]

Boddler

What has just happened?! My tiny little baby, the one that fit in my belly, and then in a tiny basket, and then in those teeny oh so tiny 0-3 month clothes, which seemed almost too big when he first lay screaming next to them, and yet the smallest things in the history of the […]

Babbling, bubbles and baby food win

I usually try to keep my posts on one topic, but given that time is now even more limited and absolutely *flying* past I’m going to cover a few things in this post. I hope it makes some semblance of sense. Number 1: omg. Mums and dads are legendary. Just totally AMAZEBOOBS. I’ve said this before […]

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 […]

Badass

This is how you feel when you take a 7 month old on a 10 hour flight (x 2, plus delays) and come out (a) alive (b) not covered in sick (c) with the same number of grey hairs (d) still married and (e) with other passengers smiling and commenting on how great your bebe is. […]

Babywheels – the Venicci 3-in-1 travel system

I have been asked to do a review of the Venicci baby-mobile. This was the “travel system” we chose to transport Bebe FF in his first months on the outside. When we were looking, as I mentioned, we found all the information out there to be a bit confusing and unnecessarily complex; the car seat […]

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 […]

BFFs

One of the best things about having a baby is making new friends, solidifying existing friendships and generally realising how extraordinary mothers really are. The BFFs (baby fast friends) These are your new baby momma friends. They are all in the same boat as you: pregnant, and scared. You have been thrown together, in the same fast moving […]

Baby Stuff #3 – Bathing, Dressing and Playing

The last instalment – for now – on baby stuff. Baby bathing products. Yes, you need to bathe your baby. Eau de fromage can become quite pungent after a while. You have to be careful about the umbilical cord, but once that’s off, you are free to bath. When you look at your bath and then your […]