I have always prided myself on being led by my heart, not by my head. I work on instinct not logic (lucky really, as my head doesn’t fully understand the concept of ‘logic’). Sometimes this isn’t such a good thing, I can make impulsive decisions and take my life down life-changing paths without actually thinking anything through. Generally, however, I feel it’s a good thing. I know to trust my… Continue reading
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30 Days of Bite
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Tagged as attachment parenting, biting, maternal instinct, teething, The Princess
The Day I Turned to the Bottle
OK, and now to the other “I Will Never…” story I mentioned before – giving The Baby a bottle.
So while I was pregnant and completely and blissfully unaware what motherhood was like, I had arrived at the very realistic, balanced and calm (not very like me at all, in fact) decision that should I have any difficulty with breast-feeding, if my nipples became cracked and I was feeding The Baby Continue reading
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Tagged as attachment parenting, baby, bottle-feeding, guilt
Sleep: To Train or Not to Train?
So I’ve been doing this mummy-thing for 7 months now. And I’ve absolutely no clue what I’m doing still. I thought by now I’d at least feel a little confident; a little less like a first-day-on-the-job-trainee whose been left to do the director’s job.
But I don’t.
And this last week has done nothing to help my situation. In fact, I feel more inadequate, more incompetent, more useless Continue reading
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Tagged as attachment parenting, baby, guilt, sleep-training
