Category: Diary

29 July 2020 : 23 months (2 years) “Do you love mama?” I asked as we cuddled on the rocking chair in the nursery. Lochie’s head was on my shoulder, his feet snug in his sleeping back, his arms against my chest. He clutched his sleep blankie in one hand. He had waited quietly for me, standing at one end...

20 July 2020 I must acknowledge my husband’s parents, too. When I needed to rest, my mum-in-law would come at the break of dawn to watch Lochie while I slept. She was there for me – not for her son, not for the baby, but for me.

20 June 2020 Rarely does life present such a halt to the daily rush as maternity leave – those first “six months” after delivering your newborn. While the body is busy breastfeeding, dipering and hushing, the mind finds itself alone in an echo chamber of lonely housewifery, baby monologues, and nightly feeds when the world is asleep. I am sure...

22 September 2018 : 5 weeks (1 month) Husband and I are giving each other one night off per week. On a normal night, daddy has baby from 8pm-2am and mummy 2am-8am. On my night off, I get to sleep in a little more (limited by breast engorgement) and on daddy’s night off I look after baby the whole night....