So, on to the childcare story as promised. Well here’s one of them today for a start!! What a total minefield the childcare field is in the UK; like most UK services, quite messed up, difficult to navigate, with the odd diamond professional body / person / company that we’re all rushing towards, pushing each other out of the way in our desperation to get our children properly cared for. [...]
29. April 2012
Hair-raising days
Yesterday was one of those duff days, well the weekend’s been a bit of a damp squid you could say with all the torrential rain and floods. Yesterday we popped to a local retail park, I was planning to go on somewhere more interesting afterwards but got waylaid, being tempted by a cappucino…which was nearly the end of us! [...]
25. April 2012
Felt-tip and nursery wobbles..
How ridiculous, people starving to death in the world, we could end up almost on the streets ourselves, and I’m worrying about felt-tip. The only thing I disagreed with when I met the nursery staff during Bee’s induction process was the use of felt-tip with babies in the age range of six months to two years, I didn’t want to make waves (typical English)… [...]
18. April 2012
Close encounters of the baby car-seat kind
When I was putting Bee into her car seat the other day she started her new trick of throwing herself into a standing position and turning round at the same time, fascinated at the hanging belt clip in front of the rear window and chatting innocently, cheeky monkey pretending she doesn’t notice that I’m trying [...]
16. April 2012
Weeny ill people
How to cope with weeny ill people? And how frustrating to not be able to wave a magic wand and make them better. Not only are you dealing with the illness, even if it is the mildest illness on the planet, when you’re home alone dealing with a screaming toddler it can feel like the [...]
10. April 2012
Mental health, single mums & funfairs..
I took Bee for a walk on our local heath during the Easter break. There was some kind of dodgem-type funfair which was enclosed like a concentration camp, I just wanted to look around for ten minutes as it looked a bit too manic for a toddler ie very packed and Bee would probably have [...]
8. April 2012
Kisses & headbutts..
The other night Bee gave me a kiss goodnight, she was at the same level as me as I had just changed her on her changing unit, she bounced back and forth as this meant standing up her face was directly in front of mine. I got three kisses in a row, one on each [...]
3. April 2012
Extra love
Although I had spent no time with children and knew virtually nothing about them apart from what I had studied on attachment theory etc – we did have Aunty Annie for the first two weeks who was a present (!!) – I mean she is a carer through an employment agency!! – who showed me [...]
27. March 2012
Back at last..
What can I say?? To my ?handful of loyal readers I am so sorry to have just disappeared. Motherhood just blew my mind. My baby has her first day at nursery today – Bee is now fifteen months old, a fully-formed rumbunctious toddler, developing at a rate of knots. It is as if every night [...]
6. December 2010
Ageism is rife!! Run for your life!!
So, I found out I had the blood-type which is the opposing one to the baby which means that your body might attack it apparently, charming isn’t it!! & as you can tell I have a memory like a sieve and should have written this straight after!! I did take the advised ‘anti-D’ injection as [...]
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