Day 10 - Car trips, photos and overwhelm
When you feed the baby girl up for an 8.30am leave time, but get in the car close to 9am, cause you know, parent life. Then you have to...
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Day 9 - Grounded
🌻 Grounded 🌻 This morning I was laying down on my side in bed. Baby girl was close to me happily feeding; she was snoozing on and off...
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Day 8 - I love me
💫 This is what seven days after giving birth looks like for me ✨ And Yesterday, Home Grocery Delivery Driver Larry looked at our...
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Day 7 - Birth Story Extract
💫 Appreciation 💫 Extract from my birth story. ‘Babe I can’t do this anymore’. I said whilst laying on my side with the gas mouthpiece...
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Day 6 - Loving to laugh
✨ Happy ✨ This morning Mitch had a doozy. Mitch: ‘I live with three other people, and I am the only one who doesn’t wear a nappy.’ Me:...
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Day 5 - Feeling seen
✨ Feeling seen ✨ To the Mama who this morning called me amazing for breastfeeding my baby girl whilst hovering at the side of the pool...
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Day 4 - My milk is in
🧚🏻♀️ Hopeful 🧚🏻♀️ Yesterday my milk started coming in. I felt the familiar fullness start early afternoon. Then looked in the...
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Day 3 - We can stay in our bubble
✨ Contentedness ✨ Mitch asked this morning if anyone was coming around today. I said, not that I am aware of. But I finished with -...
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Day 2 - We are incredible
✨ Calm ✨ I looked at her little face. She had latched well. I notice cramping. I know my body is healing 💓. I feel present in the...
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Day 1 - She's Here
💓 Pride 💓 Yesterday I did this huge thing. I birthed for the second time. I completely re-wrote the story I had around my bodies...
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The blog I tried to write so many times this morning
I have tried to write this blog so many times this morning. I wanted to try to summarise our first two weeks together in a neat little...
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I LOVE being Emotional!
We are conditioned to feel a certain way about the word ‘emotional’. Being called ‘emotional’ use to mean to me showing sadness or...
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My Fourth Trimester Project
I am DETERMIND NOT to abandon myself, dissociate from my emotions and meet external expectations this time around. Not.happening. No...
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He wasn't ready. I wasn't. Or so I thought
He wasn't ready. I wasn’t. Or so I thought. Mr F had his first ever sleepover on Saturday. We had had my Mum come and stay a month ago...
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Surrender, and surrender more
I am only valuable if something outside of myself decides so* *yes consciously I know this is absolutely incorrect! I journaled further...
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Gestational Diabetes is helping my relationship. Um whaaaaaaat?
Hubs has had Type 1 Diabetes since he was 3 years old. He doesn’t have a memory of life without it. So I’ve been around testing, insulin,...
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Love Hard gave me some self development gold!
Love Hard Kicked my toosh. This film uncovered for me some important beliefs I still hold about how we present ourselves in situations...
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Why am I still playing the victim?
This week, has been a year I tell you! (oh, hang on. Am I doing it again? 😉). After a deep and all the feels #BearMode Monday morning...
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Rewind time and maternity leave update
Remembering why I came to social media in this capacity and acknowledging I am about to birth a human. I spent a moment reflecting...
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My stress can be performative
My stress and overwhelm can be performative. I don’t know how to ask for help and I fear people will say no if I ask. So sometimes when I...