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Are you judging me?
Ok…are you prepared for a brain dump? This post is chaotic, and not remotely well written, but that sort of sums up my feelings on this at the moment – they are also chaotic, and not entirely clear....
View ArticleWards 6 and 7
Rachel writes so beautifully. So thoughtfully and evocatively that even if you don’t have experience of what she’s talking about, you can almost feel what it would be like to be in her place. What I...
View ArticleOn Miscarriage
I should warn you all right now – this piece contains graphic descriptions of a miscarriage. We’ve decided to post this though, because if it gives helpful information to just one person who is going...
View ArticleWhat being a mother has taught me
Having a baby can do all sorts of things to you. It can quite literally (and almost certainly will, one way or another), change your life. It will probably make you examine yourself and your choices...
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Things I need to tell you before I forget*
It might have taken 4 feeds, 2 hours of rocking and seventeen verses of ‘Sally the Camel’ to get you to sleep; but every evening at around 10pm, without fail, your Daddy says ‘I miss her. Can we wake...
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This week, you are one.
A love letter from a mother to her not-so baby-anymore boy on his first birthday… Happy Birthday, Toby x This week you are one. A year ago on 13th November 2012, under the light of a new moon and in...
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Now at last
…they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story no one on earth has ever read, which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before. -C.S. Lewis Eleanor Victoria Joyce...
View ArticleHaving Ellie
When you think about giving birth, there’s a certain expectation. You go into labour. It’s going to hurt. At the end, you have a baby. I’d spent most of my pregnancy not really thinking about the...
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The unexpected
It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? I’m sorry we’ve been gone so long. We fell out of love with blogging, and raising tiny humans was all-encompassing, and and and… But I don’t think either of us ever...
View ArticleSomething Just Like This
Disclaimer: you guys KNOW what I’m like. Anna calls me the Baby Loon…about sums me up. It’s long, it’s wordy, it’s two birth stories in one and you’ll need a cup of tea and a packet of biscuits to get...
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