Muddling Through Motherhood

I’m a pretty active member of several online communities - mostly related to mothering, but other technical ones too.  Many of my friends come from these (although those I class as friends I don’t only know online) and a lot of support for parenting and technical issues comes from these places.
One on of these sites [...]

Oh yes.  After ages trying and failing to find one of my existing bags (really don’t want to spend more money on bags!) that is comfortable with all my slings, I have failed and am constantly changing the nappy bag around.  Most of them are ok into town or whatever, but to walk further - [...]

Following some nice sling threads on mumsnet, I’ve spotted these.  Considering recent hassle with rain recently (Little umbrellas don’t protect poor Rowan’s legs!)  I will be getting one when we can afford 100 quid!  I’ll also be shopping around trying to find them cheaper, but it seems they’re mostly stocked in the US and canada…

I’ve been an on-off dieter for the last 12 years (which at 28 is quite scary).  Strangely, each time I’ve gone on a fitness/diet binge, its been less food and more exercise focus.
Anyway, now Rowan is a bit more predictable at night, and is eating more solids (and presumably less milk) we need to think [...]

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This time it was ignorant teenagers rather than overzealous staff, but still, will they never learn?  What a pity those mcdonalds staff couldn’t call the police on the little bastards.

Today, while doing his favourite thing - running with his master - Mr Bob the dog was hit by a car.  He was taken to the vet by some friendly builders, but unfortunately his back was broken, and we decided that the kindest thing to do would be for him to be put down.
Bob was [...]

So far with Rowan I’ve been a very ‘take it as it comes’ sort of mummy.  I’ve liked the opportunity to take him out and about with me, and he’s napped and fed as he wanted to.  I loved it.
However, over about the last 6 weeks or so, this has been getting more and more [...]

Well we didn’t have that great a turnout, but we got a fair few signatures on our letter to Clare Short and we got in the Birmingham Mail!
We had a nice day, although I did feel a bit like David, I and the nice lady from the BfN were the only ones running around most [...]

I guess I haven’t been very good at actually writing stuff about our own joyous journey through motherhood, so I’ll now write some cool things about Rowan.
He can sit up pretty well - even straight up now, although he still likes to fall forward onto his head, or flop to the side when he’s trying [...]

I briefly mentioned this in another post, but just to confirm that I have arranged a breastfeeding picnic to bring the issue of protection for breastfeeding mothers to public attention.  St Phillip’s Cathedral in the city centre have very kindly allowed us to use their churchyard for this.
We’re still looking for a wet weather venue, [...]