We can all be ladies

(Via a friend, and as he said, we are all born gender queer).

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Blogging lite

Reasons I am not blogging anything of weight at the moment : Emotionally preparing for my return to work next week after a year on maternity leave. (Am still yet to mentally prepare, and also still yet to physically prepare – like finding my work shoes and cleaning spiders out of my attaché case and [...]

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Stuff

Inspired by Montessori fantasies we re-organised the children’s play room. I say re-organise but you may say “a motherfuckin’ throw out” were you to have seen it for yourself. During the event the children’s father, up to his knees in stuff, stood in the middle of the play room and wondered aloud what are we [...]

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Motherhood is a bomb

I haven’t seen the film Motherhood so I can’t say whether I find it good, bad or indifferent in its take on ‘mummy bloggers’ (though the trailer certainly looks painful and of course it has utterly bombed in the UK), but I find the film reviews interesting. There is a whole lot of hating going [...]

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The terrifying softness of motherhood

Parenting books promising to save our sleep (and tame our toddlers) and the yummy mummy movement have something in common. Both contemporary trends capitalise on women’s fear of motherhood. Or that’s what I think, anyway. As a second-time parent there is something now peculiar to me about how frightened we all are of the transforming [...]

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T-shirts

Really, this is a post about t-shirts. If you came for the politics you may want to skip this post. For those last few souls of the universe who don’t know about Threadless t-shirts, you really should. Threadless is an on-line company that sells print t-shirts with designs from hundreds of bright, young, hipster-approved graphic [...]

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Park life

Cormac is almost eleven months old. This is an incredibly photogenic age and I just can’t stop photographing him. Also, he is a lot more co-operative about being photographed than say, a very-nearly five year old like Lauca. For future reference, when I look back at this photo: it was taken on an incredibly perfect [...]

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Pain is political

At some stage in pregnancy, women want to know what labour will be like. Some don’t think about it much until the last months. Some think about not much else from the start. Most women who haven’t experienced childbirth have some fear about it… Labour pain is terrain in the birth wars. If labour didn’t [...]

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The co-sleeping writing contest

This image above? Is a lot like how it feels to be co-sleeping with a child. I notice the father and the kid are grinning like idiots whereas the mother squeezed into the middle has something of a ‘gritted teeth’ expression. Anyway, I digress. This post is really about a writing contest for all enthusiastic [...]

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Mama’s boy

As he goes about his day he now likes to repeat in an endless loop all his different names for me, “Ma Ma, Mama, Mum, Mmmm, Mummy, Ma Ma, Mama, Mum, Mmmm, Mummy”. Like incantations. I think I have died and gone to heaven.

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