Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing and Self-Care For Parents
Caterpillar & I have recently discovered another great children’s author – Giles Paley-Philips – and I’m sharing three of his books with you this week. The Fearsome Beastie I’m a big horror fan, mainly due…
A big thank you to Sarah at Arthurwears for allowing me to repost her wonderful advice about colic and reflux, clearly a common and exhausting issue. This week I’m joined by Fourdownmumtogo to talk about…
Hubs and I are huge animal lovers and used to regularly visits zoos and farms even before we had children (sometimes we’d try to borrow someone else’s child for legitimacy). So it’s no surprise that…
A big thank you to Nicky for last week’s post which gave us a great perspective on the challenges of parenting after the baby and toddler stage. This week the lovely Sarah has given me…
Today marks one year since I posted my first ever blog post. I began this blog for only two reasons. Firstly, I hoped that I could begin to come to terms with experiencing PND and…
One of the biggest sources of anxiety for me when Caterpillar was first born was that I wasn’t really enjoying being a mum. I’ve talked before about how this realisation/question literally shattered my brain and…
I often hear parents of school-age children complaining that it can be tricky to get their children to tell them what they did that day. We already find this with Caterpillar to be honest: Did…
I think Carrie’s post last week was such a fantastic example of how each and every one one of us has moments of doubt and fear as parents, thanks so much for your wonderful comments…
When you spend most days at home alone with young children the twelve hours between wake up and bedtime can sometimes seem impossible to fill. I like to keep things as varied as possible for…
You may know from reading my PND posts that I did not have a good birth experience with Caterpillar. Twelve hours of labour eventually led to an epidural and then an emergency c-section when Caterpillar’s…