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On Milk, Anxiety and Not Missing Sleep-Deprivation

This week has been a strange old week.  The Baby turned One, I came to the realisation that the anxiety I have been experiencing is actually a little out of the realms of ‘normal’ (crying in the super-market car-park after shopping for picnic food the night before The Baby’s party, out of a) sheer relief that no-one knifed/kidnapped/attacked me, and b) shame that as a 32 year old woman I… Continue reading

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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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