It's just occured to me that now that I am no longer pregnant or in paid work, I could dye my hair an unusual colour if I wanted to. I don't think that I will - I like the colour that my hair is at the moment. But it's nice to know that I could, and that I've actively chosen not to have pink hair.

I have just figured out how to feed the baby in my sling. Hands-free! Yay! I can read books again, maybe! And it nice and discreet, and she seems to be latched on beter this way than in my arms. Hurray!

I bought a slow cooker just before the baby was born, and it totally rocks. Last night we had tasty beef stew with no hassle, and with enough left over to freeze enough for two more meals. I think that slow cooked stews and soups are the way to go for food at the moment. It certainly made for a peaceful evening, which we spent watching I Heart ( Read more... )

Kit is calm and in her sling so I will do a quick update while I have time.

Visitors. I love my family and Smorgasbord's but it's very nice to be visitor-free this week. Highlights included six people (including two babies) sleeping in my two-bedroomed house, smorgasbord's dad getting very frustrated by my refusal to leave the house until Kit ( Read more... )

Over the past few weeks, I've realised that I am now part of a new TV viewing demographic targeted by advertisers - the exhausted late-night feeding parent. From about midnight onwards, TV programmes start advertising nappies and washing powder regularly. The other group of people who watch TV at this time are young men who play computer games. I'm ( Read more... )

If you know Kit's real name, do you think that it sounds a bit ghetto-fabulous? I've never thought of the name that way, and have always liked it, but I am now paranoid as a result of something my dad said ( Read more... )

Baby Kit has been feeding pretty much solidly since 7am. I am now very tired and hurty. She is still adorable, though. It's a whole week since she was born! Her doting grandparents have been visiting this weekend, and have brouht lovely presents, and driven smorgasbord to the recycling centre to help us get rid of old junky computer suff. All I ( Read more... )

From Sarcaustick

1. What are you most nervous about in terms of your impending parenthood? The thing I worry about about most is that the the baby will die or be seriously ill. That's more about bad things happenning to people I love, though, rather than parenthood as such. I suppose I worry that I won't be good enough, and I'll hate being a ( Read more... )

This whole maternity leave business is practically a full-time job in itself ( Read more... )

I've put up some photos from Smorgasbord's birthday partyon my flickr account if anyone wants to have a look. http://www.flickr.com/photos/19628533@N00/