Who knows the correct way to parent a 5 year old?
This week a 5 year old girl was taken whilst playing outside her family home. As a mum to a 5 year old girl this hit home very hard, and I can’t stop thinking about what those poor parents are going...
View ArticleHow do you tell your child about the facts of life?
L will be 6 years old in December and with the imminent arrival of her baby brother or sister have come various questions about where babies come from and, what she is more fascinated with, how they...
View ArticleAnd then there were 4…
Wow! I haven’t blogged in ages. Since just before going from being pregnant to a mummy of 2! So hopefully I can be excused for being lax on the blog as I’ve been too busy being a mummy to my two...
View ArticleDear Mum…the things we don’t take the time to say
I don’t know about you but time just seems to be flying for me at the moment, which means it’s hard to find the time to tell the important people in our lives how we feel. So in honour of Mothers’ Day...
View ArticleHats off to single parents
Or in fact to anyone who does any solo parenting over any length of time. Hubs was away with work for 3 days last week, and he is away again for a further 3 days this week. I don’t do solo parenting...
View ArticleWho am I?
Age 37, wife of a frog for nearly 10 years, and mum to two half and half (English/French) girls: a 6 year old and a 5 month old baby, I do wonder sometimes who I am. I still feel 17 years old,...
View ArticleFrench children don’t throw food. Really?
After seeing so many people in my Twitter feed talking about this book (French children don’t throw food) and asking me if what Pamela Druckerman says is true I had to read it myself to see. In case...
View ArticleKilling my baby with BLW
6 years ago I was a first time mother to a 5 month old baby girl and living in the south of France. I didn’t have a clue how to even begin weaning, so I looked online and discovered Baby Led Weaning...
View ArticleAnd then it all changed
Today was the day I’d envisaged going back to work after maternity leave. C is 6 months old, L is back at school after half term last week, today would have been the day I’d have left my two girls with...
View ArticleAre mothers in the UK being abandoned by the NHS?
C is 7 months old today and I haven’t seen any medical person with her (apart from to get her jabs done by a nurse) since she was 8 weeks old. Whereas by 7 months old L had seen the paediatrician in...
View ArticleBreastfeeding makes you need a boob job
When I had my first daughter, L, in France in 2006 this is the type of comment I would hear. There are some French women and medical professionals who are totally pro breastfeeding but they are few and...
View ArticleGetting over body image issues
I was going to link up to Transatlantic Blonde’s “What I wore Wednesday” blog post yesterday. I had a photo taken of me this weekend when I went out with Hubs on a date night, and it was all ready to...
View ArticleHow do you get “me time” when you’re a mum?
Cast your mind back to the dim and distant, pre-child, past. To an era where time was your own, you could laze in bed all day, watch back-to-back box sets, wander on down to the pub for Sunday lunch....
View ArticleHappy 1st Birthday C: An open letter
To my beautiful baby girl, Today is your 1st birthday so it seems the right time to write you this letter (which will only make sense to you when you are much older). Daddy and I had been together for...
View ArticleHappy 7th Birthday L: An open letter
Ma Grande Puce*, How time flies! How is it possible that it’s already 7 years since I became a mum?!? Little did I know how much you would change my life, turn it around and upside down. I was pretty...
View ArticleHow not to look like a knackered mummy
You know that feeling, you’ve not had enough sleep, you can feel it, but worse, when you look in the mirror it’s written all over your face. You go on the school run, or drag yourself into work, and...
View ArticleNot being a shouty mummy
After 2 weeks of school holidays it was back to school this morning, and back to the rush, rush, rush of the morning routine. And suddenly shouty mummy is back in town. Surely I’m not the only one here...
View ArticleIs the NHS letting us women down?
Warning to those with a sensitive disposition: I will be talking about women’s bits in this blog post, and in a non-exciting way, so if you don’t want that kind of information, move along now. I just...
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