Little Newborn

Happy Birthday, Hope

  This post is in honour of a baby girl stillborn six years ago today. It contains words and pictures that some may find triggering.   It was early yesterday morning. Too early and I crawled onto the couch and snuggled up to Ziggy who was watching TV in his pyjamas. My head was resting […]

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 […]

Birth Is Beautiful

Bringing a little person into the world is incredibly hard work. It can be frightening and overwhelming, the ultimate test of endurance – both mentally and physically.   But birth IS beautiful – normally once it's over and the baby is in your arms. Time will generally cast the memory of birth in a rosier […]

What Mums Want

What Mums Want

Year in, year out, Christmas seems to sneak up on this Little Mumma. I hit up the toy sales in July and buy other bits and pieces sporadically throughout the year and still, I find myself elbowing shoppers out of my way in the dying retail hours of pre-Christmas. Of course, I only have a […]

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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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