Look, I know that we're not supposed to really think about "style" when it comes to baby equipment: in the same way that you have to accept that your vintage sideboard is probably going to have Ella's Kitchen broccoli and swede puree caked onto it permanently by this...
Video: Top Breastfeeding Essentials
A very Happy New Year to you all. I'm kicking off 2016 with my first bit of video content for The Uphill: My Top Breastfeeding Essentials. I hope that you enjoy this and that it provides another little "dimension" to the blog - I'm aiming to try and make one video a...
Baby and Body: 6 Months Update
HALF A YEAR! Dear Time, please slow down. I am very much enjoying myself. It's intense, this baby thing, I can't lie about that, but for every sleepless night/hour of sheer frustration/dark minute of total exhaustion there are hundreds and hundreds of incredible...
The Breastmilk Diaries: SUCCESS!
That in the photo, my friends, is 95ml of the most labour-intensive dairy product in existence on the entire planet. Only something like, I dunno, Starfish Milk would be more precious. Unicorn tears. That there breastmilk in the picture only took twenty minutes to...
I Can’t Get No Sleep. (5 Month Sleep Regression?)
(Just in case some of you think my grammar has gone down the pan, I Can't Get No Sleep is a reference to the well-known Faithless track "Insomnia". Though I don't have insomnia, not by any stretch of the imagination: in fact it would almost be quite helpful if...
The Beauty Present for Mothers-to-Be…
I realised last week that I didn't ever properly finish my round-up of the best pregnancy and new-Mum beauty products. I did some quite extensive testing of various stretch-mark oils and creams and the results can be found here (best budget) and here (best of the...
Babymoov Swoon Up Bouncer
I came across the Babymoov Swoon Up Bouncer whilst trying to find out how many accidents there had been as a result of people putting baby bouncers on tables. Because loads of us must sometimes (quite a lot, very carefully, and whilst never taking our eyes of the baby...
Baby and Body: 5 Months Update
As I write this I am breastfeeding and being periodically smashed in the face by a small, perfectly formed hand. When they're not trying to tweak my nose, the podgy little fingers are pulling on my bra strap, trying to free the nipple that's not in use and winding...
The Breastmilk Diaries: In at the Deep End
After a long gap in which I had made no attempt whatsoever to do any breastmilk expressing, a bout of mastitis the other week (see here) forced me to have another go. Talk about being thrown in at the deep end! Foggy-headed and feverish, messing about with boobs and...
Bamboo Reusable Breast Pads
Thanks to the many readers who recommended I try reusable bamboo breast pads: they are indeed quite brilliant. Soft, easily absorbent enough and I don't feel bad that I'm adding to the landfill with my throwaway pads. (Enough guilt going on with the nappies.) I bought...
Baby’s First Book
I have managed to wreak a lot of mileage out of this little cloth book in the month I've had it. Possibly not the most intellectually challenging of reads, it simply features the high contrast faces of three different farm animals (cow, sheep, pig) using three colours...
Review: Sleepyhead Deluxe Portable Baby Bed
This review is well overdue, because the Sleepyhead is, I think, my most-used piece of baby equipment so far. I have used it multiple times a day, almost every day since we came home from the hospital. And never has something been recommended to me so many times, by...