I knew this would happen. I knew I would get really stressed and anxious about returning to work from maternity leave. Ever since Maia was born I’ve dreaded the day I would have to leave her to go back to work. For almost eleven months now we’ve been together every single day and night, apart Read More
Month: October 2018
Post partum fitness journey – update 10 months after baby
After the summer the focus of my blog and life (!) has been on my baby Maia and not on my fitness goals. In the last two months Maia has gone through big leaps in her development – becoming mobile, getting her first six teeth, eating proper meals of solid food, falling asleep independently – Read More
10-months old baby Maia!
Not really a baby anymore, my girl is 10-months old! Or ten and half to be exact. For the last 10-days we’ve been fighting off a nasty cold but Maia is finally better. Which of course means that I have life outside snot rags and Calpol again, ha ha! Jokes aside, it’s been heart breaking Read More
What happened when I caved in to sleep training?
It’s 8.30pm and I’ve spent the last hour sitting on our sofa with a cup of tea and my favourite magazine, the Women’s Health. For the first time in a while I feel relaxed. I’m not frantically watching the baby monitor, tiptoeing around or arguing with my husband about who was breathing the loudest when Read More
Desperate times require desperate measures – we are sleep training after all…
So here I am, doing exactly what I said I wouldn’t do. I can still hear myself saying “that’s not my parenting style”. Or heck, I even wrote a blog post about how I was not going to resort to tougher measures to “sleep train” my baby (click here to read and laugh at/with me). Read More