Life of a busy 8-month old – crawling practice and independent sleep

During the summer holidays Noah turned 7-months old and to summarise, his seventh month consisted of a lot of teething, frustration from trying to but not being able to crawl, and tasting new foods. Most of the month we were away (see my previous post about our holiday ) and in that sense I hope Read More

Baby Noah 3-months old

That’s it! We don’t have a newborn baby anymore! Three months went in a flash, I must say. Interestingly with Maia I felt like the “fourth the trimester” lasted much longer but that’s possibly because I was alone with the baby and also new to the long, sleepless nights, endless nursing and solitary pram walks. 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

Should I be sleep training my baby?

If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know that for the past week I’ve been complaining about Maia’s teething and sleep regression and my own sleep deprivation. I’ve whined a lot, I know (sorry!). I also feel somehow embarrassed because my 9-month old girl is still not sleeping through the night and surely that’s because Read More