I had a week off work last week. The main purpose of the week was to have another go at nightweaning LB. I'd gone back to feeding him when he was ill and then D was too ill to go to him at night for ages and LB just screams the place down if I go to him but don't feed him, whereas he settles for D, and it all went very 4.30ish again. In the event, ( Read more... )

It strikes me that my account of LB's birth doesn't really convey what it feels like physically to labour and give birth. That's partly because I'm just not a good enough writer for that sort of subject matter.  Does anyone know accounts that they feel do convey it?  Either that resonate with your experience if you have given birth, or that make ( Read more... )

not in any imminent need of any method of timing contractions
Well that was clearly the charm.

As many of you already know, I had the baby early this morning. It was a much better labour and birth than with PB (although still bloomin' hard work and not something I'm keen to repeat, certainly not in the at-all-even-distantly-foreseeable future).  I  ( Read more... )

I know I can be a bit of a reactionary old second-wave feminist who gets her (handwoven beige hemp) knickers in a twist about matters of terminology that other people consider unimportant, but did it really not strike the creator of this that it might be a little odd to chose this particular title for this particular product?  Can anyone say ' ( Read more... )