Category: Parenthood

Edward is a couple of days past his first birthday, which we spent up north with his Gran. He had a marvellous time spending a week in a new place and I enjoyed being with him in the place I grew up, watching him gazing up at the rainforest trees that still feel so familiar…

The last two months have been one of the biggest periods of change in Edward’s life, or at least that’s the way it feels. Most significantly to me, language has begun – both more obvious understanding of what we say to him (knowing his name, putting his arms up when we ask, looking around as…

Edward has suddenly launched himself through quite a few developmental milestones this past month, which has been fun and busy and rather dizzying. 12 months and the end of little-babyhood seems to be looming on the horizon, and he seems like more of a small child each day. Things I’m enjoying at 9 months: 1.…

So many parenting related matters cause a current of anxiety, the unanswerable “am I doing the right thing” question – unanswerable because no-one else is your child’s parent, and no-one can answer that question better than you, despite the fact that you might feel like you don’t know what you’re doing half the time. Is…

Edward was just over six months old when I started back at work for three days a week – 28 weeks, although I don’t think of his age in weeks anymore. For the first month at least, he’s spending those days with the husband, so I wasn’t nervous in the same way I would have…

I see my little update posts on parenting ground to a halt at 7 weeks. From memory, that’s when things started to get easier (more sleep, less time spent frantically jiggling Edward to keep him happy), and I think I started doing other things and not focussing entirely on the baby. Four months old is…

I look back at the last thing I wrote here, which was when Edward was 7 weeks old – he’s 11 weeks old tomorrow, and I’m not entirely sure where that time has gone. Parenthood continues to become more enjoyable with each week. Teddy is such a smiley happy boy, cooing and gurgling away, enjoying…

Things I’m enjoying with Edward in week 7: 1. His rapidly increasing independence over the last two or three days – he now sits in his bouncer or lies next to me for quite long periods of time, letting me do things like eat lunch unencumbered. Such luxury! 2. Our new nightly routine, which is…

Things I’m enjoying with Edward in week 5: 1. Smiles! And other happy and joyful expressions. Not really directed at me yet, but the wall, window and other inanimate objects have been treated to delighted grins. It makes such a difference, being able to think, “Ah! He’s really happy right now,” instead of trying to…