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Six weeks old
This week has been all about freedom for us. Getting out and about and realising that now that breastfeeding is established all we need is to throw a couple of nappies in a bag and maybe a packet of...
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Seven weeks old
Seven weeks old today and we’re really hitting our stride now. Little Woman is still feeding well and getting chubbier by the day. I’m so much more relaxed about taking a baby-led approach to timing...
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Nine weeks old
I’m a day late with the baby journal update this week but we’ve had a busy weekend. We took our first cross-country trip as a family of four, heading to Limerick for my mother’s birthday, and just...
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Seventeen weeks old
Seventeen weeks. I feel like we have just jumped from twelve weeks to here. I honestly don’t know where the weeks have gone. My baby is getting bigger by the day. Her personality is emerging and one...
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A funny thing happens when you have a baby. People ask you “Is she good for you?” They don’t mean good in the sense of well-behaved. Or maybe they do, but only where well-behaved equals sleeping. What...
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How could I have forgotten this?
We have a 3.5 year age gap between our kids for good reason. We had to get enough sleep first after the first one to start to forget just how bad sleep deprivation can be. But this week, I’m left...
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Sleep is for the weak
The toddler and I are just back from two weeks in Vancouver, where we visited my brother, his wife, their toddler son and their scrumptious newborn daughter. Everything I worried about in advance of...
View ArticleSlow and steady wins the race
I’ve written here before how reading Elizabeth Pantley’s No Cry Sleep Solution was a road-to-Damascus type epiphany for me. It changed my approach to parenting. Where before, one bad night was enough...
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Three weeks old
Little Woman is three weeks old today. This week flew by. My little squishy newborn is slowly unfurling, stretching out her arms and legs. She’s visibly growing day by day. When she was weighed on...
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Four weeks old
Little Woman is four weeks old today. Again I find myself comparing this stage with her to the same stage with Little Man. The weekend Little Man turned four weeks old was my lowest point after he was...
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