As World Breastfeeding Week 2025 has just finished, I find it's time to write a very long overdue blog. Breastfeeding. Beautiful, brutal, bright, bloody, brilliant breastfeeding. My journey began in pregnancy. How would you like to feed? Midwife Carol asked. I'd like to try to breastfeed, if we both can. Why? Thinking back, I must [...]
12.35am I'd love to say that this is the first wake of the night but actually Sophia hasn't been to sleep for more than a couple of minutes since the Zoom discussion at 8pm. She's been fed, changed, rocked, sung to, passed between us and a few minutes ago I even took her into the [...]
It's Friday again! Isn't time going quickly? I feel like I'm getting into the swing of things a bit better this week. 'Work' is less of a shock and Nathan and I seem to be gradually adjusting to the new pace of life. So, this week's highlights! Preaching again on Sunday was great. I didn't [...]
For the first time in 28 weeks, happy Friday everyone! At one point I was going to carry on with Weekly Check-ins throughout mat leave and I was even going to start a new series called Mum Mondays to go alongside! Because I was going to have so much time and so much opportunity to [...]
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