Blogging Ziggy: An introduction to Raising Ziggy.
While I was pregnant I looked forward to my maternity leave. I held an unrealistic expectation about all the free time I would have, all the hobbies I would be able to pursue. My garden, long walks by...
View ArticleHiding Ziggy: Navigating the first 12 weeks.
We found out we were pregnant on January 12th 2015. Getting pregnant was easy – I stopped taking the pill, we had some sex (well, duh, who do you think I am, the Virgin Mary?) and a few weeks later, 2...
View ArticleCapturing Ziggy: Yes to Birth Photography.
I was very busy at work one day, scanning on-line news sites and whiling away the hours until home time when I came across an interesting article title: Birth Photography – gruesome or awesome? Birth...
View ArticlePreparing for Ziggy: Finding the positive.
Before I was pregnant, ‘positive’ and ‘birth’ were not words I expected to see in the same sentence. Not unless that sentence was ‘I am positive my birth is going to be terrible’. I had never attended...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Ziggy: The start of the journey.
I’ve titled this post, ‘the start of the journey’ because there is so much more to come. But all journeys start somewhere and this one started about half an hour after Ziggy was born. I use the word...
View ArticleA Pain in the Arse: Haemorrhoids and Anal Fissures.
You know a part of pregnancy no one really talks about but a lot of mums experience? Haemorrhoids and anal fissures. Yes, I’m going there, you may want to put down your coffee, delay your snack, this...
View ArticleA Pain in the Arse. Part 2: Surgery.
“Do you have health insurance” my proctologist asked. ‘Yes” I replied. ‘That’s good’ he said, ‘we have space tomorrow. You’re going in for surgery”. Surgery. Surgery?! Like actual ‘stick a needle in...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Ziggy: Mastitis is a Motherfucker.
There are few things lonelier than feeding at 2am, just you, your baby and a red, sore swollen boob that feels like someone’s sticking knives in it each time he latches on. The first time I got...
View ArticleTongue-Tied Ziggy: Fixing his tongue and lip ties.
Everything was happening so quickly, I felt like I was in the spin cycle of a washing machine, churning around and around. My thoughts were a jumbled mess. Just two days ago I’d been laid up with...
View ArticleA Pain in the Arse. Part 3: Breastfeeding & Surgery.
Yes, we’re back here again everyone. You were probably thinking, yay, all the bum talk is finished. Or maybe you were thinking . . . oh no, all the bum talk is finished. Either way, the bum talk...
View ArticleA Pain in the Arse. Part 4 – The Haemorrhoidectomy.
Today is April 22nd. It has been 3 weeks since I had my third bottom surgery, what was meant to be a haemorrhoidectomy to remove Gilbert. I actually wrote this blog about a week after surgery, when I...
View ArticleBabies needn’t be expensive. Stop buying stuff.
I was reading another fantastic article on Evolutionary Parenting a while ago . . . and one line spoke to me. To paraphrase, as I cannot remember it verbatim, it said something along the lines of ‘the...
View ArticleWe don’t wash our hair: Q&A with AJ and I.
When people find out that we don’t wash our hair (for me, going on three years and for AJ about two) they have a million questions. What do you mean you don’t wash your hair? Like, you don’t use...
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