The Newborn Diaries
Toddler Tales: Baby's first birthday
From womb to walking, baby D has really come full circle in the past 12 months of her babyhood.
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The Newborn Diaries: Daddy dearest
Baby D is obsessed by her father these days. And I am beginning to understand what is meant by that impenetrable father-daughter bond.
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The Newborn Diaries: Baby does wedding season
At a friend's wedding in May, I had everything in place: a stylish spotty-print vintage dress, a not-so-stylish-but-terribly-fun pair of false eyelashes and a killer pair of heels. I left my liveliest accessory behind: baby D, thinking that babies and weddings probably don't mix too well.
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The Newborn Diaries: Baby goes shoe shopping
I'm always complaining about how people keep on mistaking baby D for a boy. Yet, inevitably, when it came to buying baby D her first pair of real "walking" shoes, did I choose something pink or sparkly or even neutral-coloured? Of course not. I got her boy's shoes.
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The Newborn Diaries: Bulldog vs. baby
Which one of these two adorable creatures is more stressful? The baby or the bulldog?
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The Newborn Diaries: Cry baby
The other day my husband said to me (and this is more or less verbatim): "So, do you think Diana's just been pretending to be normal for the past 11 months and now she can no longer hide that she has your genes and is actually completely crazy?"
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The Newborn Diaries: Mummy-stential crisis?
As baby D approaches the one-year mark, I've been starting to think a lot about the past 12 months. Pregnancy, marriage, baby... so much has happened in a short period of time and during most of it I was either too exhausted, vommy, hormonal or busy to process any of it.
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The Newborn Diaries: Holy babe
Baby D has renounced the Devil (well, I did, on her behalf). She's officially a C of E christened, (and therefore holy, right?) babe.
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The Newborn Diaries: Not-sleeping beauty
Whenever anyone asks me if baby D sleeps through the night, I smugly smile and say, "Yes, we're very lucky." Until one day a couple of weeks ago, when my (irritated) husband turned to me and said: "You realise Diana gets up about five times a night, right? And I'm the one waking up to deal with things?"
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The Newborn Diaries: Soft play
The truth about me is that I'll never be the parent with the perfectly childproofed home, or the one with an organised routine, just like I was never (and still fail to be) the girl with the gorgeously coiffed hair or flawless homemaking skills.
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The Newborn Diaries: Spider-Babe
Here's what I learned this week as a parent: It doesn't take a superhero to scale couches, walls or changing tables. I'd like to introduce you to Spider-Babe, aka baby D.
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The Newborn Diaries: Baby turns double-digits
Last week baby D celebrated her momentous 10-month birthday by clapping her hands. It was a very exciting week for other reasons, too. Not only has Diana turned double-digits, but there have been lots of new developments that seem to have coincided with her new (advanced) age.
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