Posted in Babies, Books, Education, Motherhood, Pregnancy, tagged Baby Bliss, Bach, cuisenaire rods, Dr Harvey Karp, Suggestopedia, swaddling, the 5 Ss, the Silent Way, Total Physical Response, white noise on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The other particularly helpful baby book Best Friend gave you was supposed to be an antidote to Gina Ford’s regimentation being the key to happiness. Harvey “I’m a doctor donchaknow” Karp’s Baby Bliss.
Unlike Ms Ford’s stick to the schedule first and think later approach, Dr Karp has a Theory about the first three months of [...]
Posted in Babies, Books, Motherhood, Pregnancy, tagged Gina Ford, The Contented Little Baby Book, The New Contented Little Baby Book on April 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Having been very uncharitable towards Jamie Oliver’s Wife’s Book, you feel you should point out the childcare manuals you wouldn’t be without.
It should come as no surprise that you hadn’t heard of Gina Ford before your pregnancy. Or, indeed, up until about seven months into your pregnancy, which was when Best Friend gave you the [...]
Posted in Babies, Books, Feminism, Motherhood, Pregnancy, tagged Jamie Oliver, Jamie Oliver's Wife, Jools Oliver, Minus Nine To One on April 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The dilemma of not particularly maternal women in their 30s who find that the whole biological clock thing is not a myth and has just caused them to throw a lifetime’s aversion to bodily fluids to the winds and get pregnant is that, frankly, they barely know which end of the baby is up, let [...]
Posted in Babies, Marriage, Motherhood, Pregnancy, tagged NaBloPoMo 2008, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation on November 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Whoever invented daylight saving time was clearly not a mother. One week down and the Star has finally been persuaded that four o’clock is not an acceptable time to be waking up, although he’s still opening his eyes closer to five than you’d like.
Consequently, you have been revisiting those heady days of surviving on very [...]
Posted in Childbirth, Football, Pregnancy, Public Transport, Russia, tagged Euro 2008, European Cup 2008 on July 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
So the contractions you were displaying proudly for the world here on the 20th, weren’t.
They were, according to the midwives, ’tightenings’ and, officially, did not hurt.
A comment which, by your third visit to the hospital for monitoring, after you had had a night of napping for five or ten minutes before being catapulted upright by a [...]
Posted in Pregnancy on June 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
It turns out that cooking chili last night was a mistake. At least in so much as you were hoping to [ow] hang on to the Star for another couple of days.
Of course, as this was mainly so you could watch the Russia/ Netherlands football match and the Magny Cours Grand Prix in peace, perhaps you have come [...]
Posted in Education, Pregnancy on May 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
One of the side effects of being a teacher is that you often find yourself musing on what makes your students tick.
Well, perhaps ’side effect’ is the wrong phrase. ‘Secret guilty pleasure’ bordering on ’the main reason why you do it’ is probably closer to the mark.
Generally this focuses on what they are like as learners so [...]
Posted in Cinema, History, Patriotism, Pregnancy, Russia, War, tagged 9 Rota, 9th Company, Afghanistan, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Iraq, Vietnam on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago they showed a Russian film about the Russian Afghan war on TV called 9 Rota, or 9th Company.
You actually saw this when it first came out back in 2005 or thereabouts, but settled in to watch it anyway as you remembered it as being quite good, and in any case [...]
Posted in Britain, Citizenship, Nodnol, Pregnancy, Travel, tagged Heathrow on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, you went to the airport to see off Mother In Law after her epic three month visit.
So there you are, sitting in the cafe having a last cup of tea before sending her off to brave the security gauntlet, when you notice that there’s a number of cabin crew types drinking coffee there too.
You were idly pondering over this – [...]
Posted in Pregnancy on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The doctor kept you waiting for 40 minutes this morning simply because, you discovered once you had actually made it into her office, she likes to chat.
This, however, is not important. What is important is that in between the five anecdotes about her own pregnancy which she managed to showhorn into the measuring and prodding [...]
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