Chatting to a friend who is currently underemployed the other week, she said that she couldn't do what I did in being at home all day - she needs to work to keep herself sane ( Read more... )

I want to write a long reflective post about how I feel on returning to work and leaving my child in someone else's care, but bedtime is in 20 minutes, so. Short version: conflicted, getting used to it ( Read more... )

...and I'm not bored yet! I'm actually kinda wishing I'd taken the full year off work so that I could do the transition to solids entirely myself, rather than daycare 2 days a week where they haven't heard of baby led solids (and probably don't really have the staff in the baby room to watch her while she eats something non-mashed ( Read more... )

Inspired by tikiwanderer's latest post about babies and sleep, I bring you a long post about what all newish parents want for Christmas: ( sleeeeeep.... )

(that's 17 weeks. Almost 18 now ( Read more... )

(ok, none of it's ugly, it's all pretty cute.)
We ran into kirmish at the babystuff shop the other day, and it reminded me I've been meaning to post about what I've found useful and not useful. ( cut for the uninterested )

...and you guys, SO CUTE ( Read more... )

( cut for those who are totally uninterested! )

Well, the good thing about crying most of yesterday is that she slept really well last night - 12-4 then 5-7. Actually I'm not sure that the crying and the sleeping are at all related as last time she had a bad day she wouldn't sleep till 3am ( Read more... )

...and Bridie's starting to be more like a human than a human-in-waiting. She seems to have had one of those developmental leaps this weekend; she's really holding her head up a long time by herself, rather than just lifting it a few moments then it thumping back down on her carrier's chest. She's also recently discovered the idea of holding on to ( Read more... )