Little Childbirth

In The Wake II

Day 6 after Harlow was born – someone needs a tissue…and possibly an eyebrow wax… Taking a newborn baby home is intense. They are very small and very loud and they look super-breakable. Sometimes they sleep, often they don't and then there is the question of baths, boobs, bottles and bums. It's a lot to […]

In The Wake

It was just a week or so after her first daughter was born. She emerged from the birth battered, physically exhausted but moreso, mentally. She was in that newborn daze but not necessarily in a good way. She adored her little girl, yes, had fallen madly in love the moment she laid eyes upon her […]

Loss and Hope: A Birth Story

As we begin a second week of celebrating birth here on The Little Mumma, it feels  important to me to acknowledge when the story does not have a happy ending. Please note that this piece includes a raw and painful account of a stillbirth. If this is a trigger for you and perhaps for those […]

Top 5 Labour Must-Haves

Top 5 Labour Must-Haves

  Source: birthwithoutfearblog.com via Sam on Pinterest   If you are planning on giving birth soon, don't even think about doing it without these things. Or do. It's probably fine. All I'm saying is that these things made my last birthing experience better. So herewith, interspersed with more amazing images found on Pinterest, my top […]

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Post-Birth Report Card

Post-Birth Report Card

The birth story is coming. This isn't it. But it is all the post-birth info that's fit to print.   Labour Duration: 2 hours, 20 minutes Amount to which this amazes me: super-maximum amount People who have now seen my business end up close and personal: super-maximum amount Ability to chat and make jokes while […]

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I’m Angie!  I mum. I write. I wife. My husband would say this is the correct order.  He’s so neeeedy. I live with my family in Melbourne, Australia, where I complain about the weather for 90% of the year – but I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Except maybe in Lake Como, waving to my neighbours George and Amal each morning.

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