My response to this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33904758 Let’s consider another example of what he might have said, to see how ridiculous this is.“I don’t know what it is with all these mothers these days, feeding their children bananas in public. Don’t they understand that I-and probably some other fellas for that matter-don’t like to look at bananas?…
Category: breastfeeding
O Sleep How You Taunt Me
Piglet went to sleep at 7.15pm today. ***KLAXON*** I am braced for a rough night when he inevitably wakes up in an hour or so, having regarded his current period of sleep as nothing but a later-than-normal nap, and sits bolt upright in bed, before launching himself at me head first and emitting a high…
Breastfeeding + Work = Nightmare
Well, it had to end sometime. I am now back to work. This is not as hideous as it could be, but it is like, JOKES trying to pump milk at work. So far I have combed all the staff toilets looking for plug sockets “just on the off-chance,” commandeered an office at lunchtime which…
More Unsolicited Advice from the Good People of Wembley
So I regale you with yet another tale of how when you have a baby, everyone considers it their God-given right to tell you how to parent. I had, as usual, carefully considered how Piglet and I were presenting ourselves to the world, in order to deflect any unwanted comments. Piglet was wearing his snowsuit,…
Piglet Commences Destruction of Entire House
Piglet had his second settling in session with the childminder today. This went well, right up until the point where we were on the way home and Piglet, who has never been one for eating and drinking anything other than breast milk, decided that he was now hungry. Hungry enough to start licking the zip…
What is this nap time of which you speak?
I haven’t written on here recently as I have been spending most of my life wandering around Wembley in a dead-eyed haze, pushing a pram containing a wide-eyed and alert Piglet, who sits staring at me blankly as I plead with him to take a nap. He does actually need a nap. He has all…
Note to self: Stop reading parenting blogs (that aren’t this one, obvs.)
What is it about parenting that makes everyone go all Judgey McJudge? Well, not everyone, but more specifically, me. No, in fact, everyone. Everyone does this. OK I admit I was quite judgemental beforehand, in a “well that outfit isn’t very suitable for work now, is it?” kind of way, but with motherhood this tendency seems to have…
Piglet Goes to Church
The trouble with Christmas is that every Tom, Dick and Harry that you may or may not be related to wants to spread the festive cheer by having their say about your parenting skills. Take yesterday, for example. Mother and I had been out with Piglet, running errands, and on the way home passed the…
The Curse of the Mummy Clothes
Not a terribly productive day. Currently procrastinating cleaning the flat and using Piglet’s current slumbers as an excuse. We cannot have him being woken up by the vacuum cleaner after all. In fact, today’s activities consisted of: going downstairs to check my mailbox, baking chocolate cookies and going to the bank. As I am currently…
New Sport of Ostentatious Breastfeeding Makes Wembley Debut
And so for a bit of ostentatious breastfeeding. Well not at the moment. At the moment I am watching X Factor on mute so as not to wake Piglet from his slumbers. Michael Buble is either singing or talking to someone who may or may not be Nelly Furtado. Without the benefit of sound, they both…