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Confessions! A New Blog Post
CONFESSIONS Author: Rebecca Maberly Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 Motherhood isn’t a breeze by any stretch of the imagination. So, why do we pretend we’ve got it perfected when anyone worth impressing is within earshot? We all have off moments. In fact, most us have a few off moments a day. Many mothers struggle with parenting demons – in fact dark thoughts and bad habits are more common than you think. We all have these feelings! Let’s absolve ourselves of our ‘sins’ by ‘fessing up and coming clean about the ‘bad’ things we mothers think and do! I’ll go first. I […]
Stop Bickering about Breastfeeding!
Stop Bickering about Breastfeeding! Before I set up this website, I had absolutely no idea how contentious the subject of breastfeeding was. I had breastfed my son, very painfully and therefore begrudgingly, for 16 weeks and hated every minute. (Read my story here) My sister also had a pretty dismal experience but soldiered on a little longer than me. Friends’ experiences ranged from exclusively breastfeeding happily for a year to mixed feeding from a few weeks and I had not known anyone who had chosen to bottle feed from birth. Within hours of launching our website, I received multiple “troll” […]
Got Help? A New Blog Post
GOT HELP? Author: Rebecca Maberly Monday, September 23rd, 2013 How much help you get from your baby father will depend on a number of factors: The kind of guy he is…good guy/bad guy? The amount of sleep he needs…flying on 5 hours or sluggish even on 8? The kind of job he has…brain surgeon? Out of work actor? How his own mother has helped to shape his beliefs…modern man or Stepford Husband? And most significantly and importantly, how assertive you are! In a nutshell, if you are a bossy bitch, shacked up with a compassionate, freelance / unemployed artiste, insomniac […]
Expert Chat with Mother & Baby Magazine
Missed our Wednesday Lunch Club with obstetrician and gynaecologist Roger Marwood? Don’t worry, you can read all of the expert advice he shared here Every week at Mother& Baby we bring you the Wednesday Lunch Club – a chance to get brilliant advice for your pregnancy and parenting questions from a top expert. This week, obstetrician and gynaecologist Roger Marwood was on board to answer questions. Roger’s a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. He has 40 years of experience working in a busy NHS hospital and has personally supervised around 20,000 pregnancies and countless deliveries. He’s […]
Have you got Post Natal Depression? by GP Dr Ellie Cannon
Dr Ellie Cannon is the author of “Keep Calm, The New Mum’s Manual” which is available on Amazon. Read our review on her book here. Post-natal depression Feeling a bit down after giving birth is so common, it is pretty much normal. In the first 10 days especially, your mood will feel all over the place because of the hormones flying around making you feel crazy, tearful, super-happy, super-sad often all at the same time. This is a normal post-natal experience. You will find yourself crying at car insurance adverts on the telly. It’s a bit weird, but […]
All about Doulas
Last week we held a Q and A session with Rebecca Schiller a Doula UK recognised birth doula and co-chair of Birthrights. We invited our followers to post their questions about Doulas and Rebecca answered them live over twitter. Here we have posted all the questions and answers together which is easier than trying to follow a very long twitter feed. If you have any more questions on the subject, please do get in touch with either us or Rebecca Schiller. I have fast deliveries and home births. Is it worth me hiring a doula so I’m not alone before the MW arrives? […]
Pregnancy Brain? Real? A myth? Or is it just the brain working in a different way?
Pregnancy Brain? Real? A myth? Or is it just the brain working in a different way? Over the last 40 years of looking after pregnant women, I have often been bombarded by stories of poor memory, absentmindedness and lack of focus. It’s hard to tell whether these observations are real or just part of generally accepted story that pregnancy, in some way affects recall and cognitive function, and interferes with the ability of pregnant women to perform normal everyday tasks. Is it that pregnant women, in some way expect to behave differently when they are pregnant, and are just following […]
Some Dad Dos and Don’ts
Some “DON’TS” for expectant Dads! DO NOT spend lengthy periods on your phone, laptop, or iPad unless she gives you the go-ahead DO NOT eat excessively in front of your partner who is probably feeling nauseated and or starving. Cheese and onion crisps have been cited as the most disgusting thing to smell whilst in labour! DO NOT complain about being hungry or tired. DO NOT get drunk, before or during! DO NOT curl up in the chair and snore whilst your wife/partner is awake in pain! DO NOT spend most of the labour staring at the fetal heart rate monitor and ignore your […]
My wife is breastfeeding, how can I help?
“I am breastfeeding our new-born – how can my partner help?” By Louisa van den Bergh of Lulubaby When taking the breastfeeding session of our antenatal course, I often ask the mums to be what they think the fathers can do to help once their baby has been born. So often new fathers report to me that they feel “useless” and a bit “spare” whilst their partner is busy feeding the baby(quite a regular occurrence when they are tiny) so I thought it might be helpful to highlight a few things which your other half can be doing to […]
Drink Me! A New Blog Post
DRINK ME! Author: Rebecca Maberly Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 Shit…. I nearly just poured wine on my 2 years olds Weetabix! But wait, don’t call social services just yet because I’m not a proper alcoholic, I’m just a mother. Don’t tell me you haven’t ever done the same. As you open the fridge at blurry O’clock in the morning, you catch a glimpse of some Sauvignon Blanc in the shelf of the door, nestled in between the milk and the orange juice and the half bottle of flat Diet Coke, a little tear of condensation running down its long smooth green neck. […]