Articles Tagged: TheNewbornDiaries
The Newborn Diaries: Missing the baby
I'm not sure if we were ready for nursery. And by we, I mean me, of course. Diana seemed to love it. While I was ...
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The Newborn Diaries: A trip to the health visitor
I've been dreading going to the health visitor. The last time I went (admittedly weeks ago), it was dispiriting, with Diana ...
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The Newborn Diaries: How to Fake Being a Parent in Control
I feel like my life as a parent is a Potemkin village: on the surface, I look semi-capable, my baby is calm and we are ...
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The Newborn Diaries: Designer Baby
One of the things I was not-so-secretly most looking forward to about becoming a mother was the baby clothes. Finally, a ...
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The Newborn Diaries: Got Milk?
While having a newborn initially seems like a completely overwhelming prospect, in the few days I've been a new mum, I've ...
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The Newborn Diaries: 39 Weeks
I've officially self-diagnosed myself with "nappy brain". I've never been the most organised or "with it" person, but at ...
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The Newborn Diaries: Cool, calm and collected?
My midwives came over to discuss my birth plan and they were so calming and soothing that I emerged from their visit thinking ...
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The Newborn Diaries: 37 Weeks, aka Get this thing out of me!
This weekend, when I woke up so exhausted that I could hardly pull myself out of bed, only to eventually make it to the couch ...
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