Diary – Page 2 – Six Month Mum

No like bed, I want more

27 February 2021 | Lochie 2.5 years | Jono 1 year Got my period today. That’s despite breastfeeding 6 times a day and taking the mini pill. Jono is starting childcare in 10 days and turning 1 the day after. I’m returning to work officially after a 3 year hiatus. We are way past the 6 month charm and I’m...

Picky

21 February 2021 | 2.5 years Sleep is becoming hard. I have no me time. Jono won’t sleep now till 745pm. It takes me 90 mins to get him down. Loch doesn’t sleep till…? Right now it’s 938pm and he is still going strong. Poor baby is overtired and playing up big time. Also on Panadol and sick. Coughing almost...

The erotica of babymaking

18 January 2021 What audience does Netflix’s original period series softcore porn Bridgerton attract? The chemistry between the chisel-chinned rake-duke and his blushing virgin barely-of-age bride draws together Beauty and the Beast’s transformational power of love with the sexual deflowering and blossoming of Emmanuelle. And yet, it was not Simon and Daphne’s first sex scene that entrapped me. (In fact,...

Mummy loves you and you (part 2)

15 December 2020 | 2 years 4 months Lochie loves childcare. Where are you going, Lochie? “Toiletcare.” You mean child, not toilet, childcare. “No. Toiletcare!” Can’t make this up. On the topic of deep contemplation, surely he also still needs closure after yesterday’s confrontation. Last night at bath time he refused to share his trucks with Jono. I scolded him....

Mummy loves you and you (part 1)

14 December 2020 | 2 years 4 months We were playing in the hot and sunny courtyard – Lochie, Jono and I. It was exceptionally hot but balmy under the umbrella’s shade. I had filled two tubs with warm water – one per child – and was proudly supervising my moment of success, having managed to contain two wildly energetic...

Labour and all my Christmases

26 November 2020 Cassie and I are watching the kids sleep on the monitor, reminiscing about the day I went into labour with Jono. “Remember how you were clenching your teeth every ten minutes, and we had just been to the MCH appointment for Lochie, and made a coffee, and a rhubarb cake with icecream?” Cassie recalls this day. The...

The virginal six months

1 November 2020 In 4 months, Jono will start childcare, turn 1, take a 3-day break from breastfeeding (hopefully to recommence once mummy returns from her girls weekend away), and I will start working. Not full time but with full focus. This chapter of life where I have taken a few years off to enjoy back-to-back maternity leave will have...

Two is the bestest number

11 October 2020 : 2 years 2 months Terrible twos, talktative, troublesome, touching, twisted, tremendously adorable twos. “Two years old is the best age. Cherish it,” my girlfriend says, mum of a 6 year old. “Looking back they are definitely the cutest at 2.” When I’m experiencing something wonderful and I don’t want it to end, I think about the...

Cloudy with a chance of depression

8 October 2020 What has happened to the world? How are people coping? Is it me or has the covid madness divided the world into politically opinionated factions, feverent believers of one source of information and haters of another, a mob of panic-stricken germ-obsessed people who, instead of welcoming an opportunity to meet a new person, bypass each other at...

Bouncing back

2 September 2020 “Ball,” Lochie announced, as he catapulted my apple down the stairs. It did not bounce but landed flatly on the wooden floor, bruised. That’s how I feel. Who’s been hit the hardest by Victoria’s stage 4 lockdown? Aside from frontline health workers, I think the most impacted are those people who are at major turning points in...

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