Wah! I’m still absolutely stuck on six months – it honestly only seems like yesterday when I wrote the 6 Months Update Post! Maybe because I’ve been ill for over half of the past month – and there was Christmas and New Year to contend with, so it’s no wonder that the time has just…
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 time next year, or that your best sofa…
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 gather, but mentally it has taken me months. I’ve had quite a…
A new vlog for you. I had a completely wasted weekend where nothing much went right – but I did buy a silly reindeer outfit for Baby AMR, and also my Baby GAP delivery came and everything was scrumptious, so that cheered me up. Read more baby chatter on The Uphill I only had forty minutes sleep on…
This week has mainly been spent bumbling about with eyeliners, trying to create the quickest and most foolproof smoky eye. (See photo above.) I’ve almost got it down (it’s probably the same technique that everyone else has been using for years and I’m simply late to the party!) but I shall post my findings when…
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 or leaving him/her unattended) put the…
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 themselves into my hair so that they…
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 (black, white, red) to stimulate and entertain new babies. Mine…
I had a bit of a hectic day in London this week – in all honesty, I think I tried to do a bit too much considering I was at the mercy of public transport and had a baby and a pram! By the time we got back home it was 10pm and we had…
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 so many different people. And so…
You can probably tell by the fact that my posts have been a bit more sporadic that I have a hell of a lot less time at the moment. Mainly because Baby A hardly sleeps at all during the day – a nap here and there, but nothing solid – and we have absolutely no routine…
Here’s my latest vlog: shopping with the baby (including a mad rush in and out of IKEA) and a day spent in the back of the car. Unfortunately most of my life at the moment is spent shopping or in the back of the car, so forgive me if it’s all a bit pedestrian and…
Yesterday was a bit of a milestone for me: I put on clothes. Not pyjamas, leggings or tracksuit bottoms with the elastic cut out but proper, non-maternity clothes. Actually I lie: the jeans are maternity jeans, but you’d never know – they’re Paige Verdugo, and the only difference between these and the normal ones is…
We have been moving back into our newly renovated house and I keep discovering bags of things I’d forgotten I had. It’s brilliant – kind of like Christmas, but without having to go shopping or cook a roast. In one of the baby bags I found a pack of three “safari” babygrows from Mothercare that I…
The three month update. I would use that age-old phrase the time has flown by, but actually, this month hasn’t. Probably because we’ve been waiting to move back into our house and every day has presented a new delay or obstacle, but also because there have been so many little changes with Baby Angelica and I’ve…
Following my Co-Sleeping. Kind of. post, I decided to take the plunge and see what it was like sharing a bed with Baby Angelica. If only for a few hours. Because I started to wonder whether the whole co-sleeping issue had maybe been blown out of all proportion, fuelled by newspaper stories and SIDS statistics. After…
Oh, where has the time gone? I honestly thought that being indoors with a baby, constantly feeding, would make the time really drag but actually I would quite like to press pause so that I can savour every moment. I now understand what people mean when they say that each phase flies by – Angelica…
1) This is how I roll, at the moment: working from a tiny laptop, because I’m living at my parents’ and don’t have my big computer; baby permanently feeding, so I have to type with one finger on whichever hand is free; cat in a box in front of me, watching my every move with…