It must be scary being small. I mean, I am fairly short but to be really small, baby small, would be quite terrifying. Mr Wrigglebot’s perspective in life changes with each new stage that he goes through. At first he was confined to lying on the ground and only seeing what was directly above or [...]
So I am no paragon of domesticity but one thing that I have managed to master is baby food. Let me state from the outset that I am not a cook, husband cooks all of our meals as he enjoys doing it, and so it came as a surprise to me that baby food became [...]
Mr Wrigglebot has no problem eating. From the first time that we put food near him he opened his mouth and devoured it. Then he cried for more and this was at 5 months. Now he has a huge appetite and although my Maternal and Child Health Nurse said to feed him until he [...]
When I got pregnant I was suddenly assailed with information about necessary things that I had to have to raise my child safely and with the best chance in life. And so I researched and read and talked to people and then suddenly it struck me, people have been having babies for hundreds of years. [...]
My husband has just discovered the joys of shopping with a baby. Now I know a lot of you might be thinking, narrow corridors, pram jams and unresponsive wheels but no, I wasn’t being sarcastic there are inherant advantages for a man with a pram. My husband has never found it easier to have females [...]
Last night I got dressed up (wore that little black dress that I have had no occasion to wear post baby), left Wrigglebot with his grandmother and went to see Miss Saigon. It is always an interesting experience seeing live theatre and I have seen most of the big musicals; Phantom, Les Miserables etc. I [...]
Soon I will have my first Mother’s Day. I tried to claim last Mother’s Day as I was six months pregnant but to no avail, it didn’t earn me present and pampering status. This Mother’s Day should be good, Mr Wrigglebot is still too young to present me with paintings and toilet roll holders and [...]
I went out last night, husband stayed with Mr Wrigglebot, I haven’t been out very much since the birth so I changed out of my pyjama pants (I love my pyjama pants, don’t sleep in them but wear them excessively) and headed out. It was a friend’s birthday and there were a lot of people [...]
I did not grow up in a ‘clean clean’ house, I grew up in a ‘quick visitors are coming’ house. The difference is a hygienically spotless house compared to a rushed tidiness for times of public viewing. When I was in the workforce I always had good reason for not having a spotless house, I [...]
I found it a huge weight to be responsible for naming a child. Names have such power and connotations and when one is named generally that name stays for life and perhaps even longer into history. Here is the process that I came up with, I do tend to over analyze a little.
1. How does [...]