My husband and I stumbled off the plane at the end of our trip with our 14 month old girl, exhausted and apologising profusely to the cabin crew for the food and crayon-stained mess we left behind. We swore we would never travel with a toddler again.
You may be thinking we’d just done a long haul flight from the other side of the world. We had in fact just flown two hours from Port Douglas. Though in truth the travel time from door to door was a fair bit longer. …
If you love following fashion trends or love playing around with your own style it just naturally flows on to dressing your children in things that are a little more interesting than plain onesies and chain store clothes.
When your little person starts to sit up, move around and bop along to music, you want them to wear clothes that fit their growing personality as well as their growing body. But it can be hard justifying the cost of boutique clothes that may be outgrown in a matter of months.
I’ve learned the hard way on shelling out decent money…
A close friend of mine is steadily counting down the days until arguably the biggest day of her life – the birth of her first baby. It is such an exciting time with a fair dollop of anxiety too. Your mind is filled with thoughts of how the birth will go, and how exactly you’re going to care for this tiny human. Talking to other women about childbirth and child rearing becomes a regular thing, but as the due date looms the more mundane but equally important matters start to fill your head. What do I pack for the hospital…
Now that my little girl is one year old I have come to the bittersweet realisation that she is no longer a baby. This is made particularly obvious to me as I steadily archive the many baby products that I have discovered and loved over the past year.
As I was packing away the most recent load of baby gear, it struck me that all of my favourite products came through word-of-mouth recommendations. No matter how much research I did while pregnant, I still felt overwhelmed at the sheer enormity of products available. …
Having a baby makes you worry like you’ve never worried before. On one hand, you’re filled with all-new feelings of overwhelming love and happiness. On the other hand you’re a quivering mass of fear over the sudden realisation that the world is an awful, awful place.
My husband calls me a worrier (I call myself well-prepared for any possible scenario), but the new mum worries are actually a type of anxiety that many mothers experience.
In the parenting book Baby Love, Robyn Barker describes this feeling as an ‘intense worry of the sort never felt before’ which comes on in…
An episode which I’m sure is repeated across many households happened to us this morning. I was cleaning up the breakfast my wonderful hubby had given our one year old, and I couldn’t unscrew the unbelievabowl (yes it really is called that) from its suction base. I mean, it felt like they were cemented together. This is an all too familiar occurrence in our household. My husband often puts a lid on a bottle or jar so tight that I can only unscrew it with his help or very sore hands. So on this cold morning with aching hands trying…
Why I share pictures of my child on the Internet
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about the appropriateness of mums posting photos of their children on the Internet. At this very moment I just glanced at my Instagram feed to see yet another mum weighing in on the debate after a picture of her little boy on the beach was reported by another user.
The recent media interest in this started when Instagram disabled Courtney Adamo’s account over a seemingly inappropriate photo. Courtney is a founder of online children’s boutique Babyccino Kids and she has to date 46,000 Instagram followers. The photo in question was of…
For the last month my almost-one year old has been waking during the night. She is normally a great sleeper so I know that when there is a night waking it means something is wrong. I also know that after a little cuddle the quickest way to get her back to sleep is a warm bottle of formula and she won’t wake again until the morning. It seems that no matter the reason for waking — nightmares, sore tummy, teething — a bottle of formula stops the tears and relaxes her enough to fall into a long sleep.
I know…
As my baby’s first birthday approaches, I have been looking back at all the amazing and unexpected ways my life has changed in this past year. From the small things like unexpectedly enjoying tepid coffee to the big things like feeling such fierce and protective love for my baby, it has been an incredible year of discoveries.
One of my favourite new experiences in this first year has been the communal element of being a mum. Many articles talk about the social isolation of having a baby, but for me it has been the opposite. A trip to the shops…
When I was pregnant purchasing a baby bag seemed like such a simple process. Find one that is comfortable to carry and has lots of pockets and I should be good to go…right?
Wrong.
I breezily purchased my first baby bag a few weeks before my baby arrived thinking it ticked all the boxes and then some. After three months of constantly losing my car keys in its cavernous pockets, dropping things out of its unsecured top and breaking my nails on the carabinas I used as DIY stroller straps I realised I had to find me a new bag.
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Caroline
Figuring motherhood out. You can follow me on twitter and instagram @mum_inprogress and on my blog www.muminprogress.com.
