It takes two to tango. Back in the day when I worked in the communications department of Family Planning (now THOSE were some fun team meetings) there was a health promotion campaign with that as a key message. Now, with technology and increasingly fluid family structures, that might be a little less true than it […]
40 weeks of feasting
I am quite keen on cutting corners. My sister will never let me forget that in my fledgling years I persisted on wearing my nightgown the wrong way out every second night. It made sense to me. Once I’d shirked it over my head in the morning, it inverted itself. And so a labour saving […]
It’s a curious thing when you lock one eye on the details in the pregnancy app you bought in a flush of maternal excitement some 22 weeks ago and it informs you that the thing you’ve got inside would now have an ok chance of making it if it came out. Dear Stowaway. Please don’t […]
We’ve had our share of lists. But I think I’m going to start making a new one. It’s of things that one should not say to a pregnant woman. It starts with; ‘ooh, you’re really starting to look properly pregnant now, aren’t you? Not just like you’re really bloated!’ (That one came directly from one […]
With one sentence, I morphed into my mother. ‘If you’re still hungry, eat an apple’. It’s something I’ve been saying quite a bit lately- often to myself, though I think I even let it slip into the last line of the post previous to this one. It was The Hungry One who finally turned to […]