It’s all the cliches they tell you and some of the ones they don’t You arrived 12 days before your due date You came as an early surprise...

10 weeks in. Lockdown, lockdown, lockdown......where even do you start? It is so different in so many different ways for every single per...

6 to 9 months: you have been my hardest lesson so far. A time that has been so full of ups and downs, with the highs being so outrageousl...

38 + 2: That’s how long I carried you for and that’s how old you are now. I find it amazing that the same amount of time has passed so qu...

You are the Diamond in the UK’s crown and never have you shone so brightly. You were founded in July 1948 and embody six core values Work...

**Please note that this was written a long time before the emergence of COVID-19 and government procedures were put in place in the UK. I...

It’s feels like I’ll never sleep again. It feels like I haven’t slept since January. It feels like a huge weight hanging behind my eyes t...

Is this a joke........you are six months old! You are no longer a newborn, you are a baby, like a proper baby now, one who rolls over, wh...

Identity is such a broad topic, it’s so multi faceted and means so many things to so many different people. Is it the colour of your eyes...

1. Sushi: sooooo some people find the lack of alcohol during pregnancy tricky, this didn’t bother me so much, however the lack of sushi d...

There are so many decisions to make before baby arrives: names, hospital birth, home birth, birthing partner and then there’s the STUFF t...

19 weeks ago we’d not met, we knew each other, but we’d never met, we’d grown together over the previous 38 weeks but we’d still never me...

Am I making too much of a big deal out of this? Do I feel so utterly blessed and so totally ungrateful in the same moment? Do I talk abou...

Not a day goes by that I don’t kiss your head You won’t remember and you won’t know but it’s my little secret, Every one of those kisses ...

1. Paternity leave and the absolute joy it brings. So at the end of October my husband was fortunate enough to take some time off in line...

So 3 months in and what have I learnt, what’s new? What continues to flabbergast me, what makes me smile, what makes me cry and what at t...

So 12 weeks in and we’re still persevering with breast feeding. Initially I set myself the goal of 6 months and although there have been ...

Some people look at me with raised eyebrows, some people look at me in disdain, some people say 'yes absolutely you can', others aren’t s...

Before I delve into this I would just like to make it really clear that this entry is in no way stating that breast feeding is ‘the best’...

I got this........I think! The thought that runs through my head at least 100 times a day and has led me here. I’ve always wanted to writ...