It gives me immense pleasure to welcome Amelie to the world! If her arrival is anything to go by, she’s going to have a flair for the dramatic. We were planning on a nice, chilled-out home birth but ended up in a densely populated operating theatre 40-odd minutes away. She knows how to make an entrance! Starting at …
As the birth of our third child draws ever nearer, we’ve been attending more regular appointments than in previous months. Last week we were at a one of these and, as we’re having a home birth, I was asking a few more questions than I usually do. One of which was about who I should phone when …
Our weekly grocery shopping arrived yesterday and things were a little different to usual. No, not because of the lack of plastic bags and the ensuing Chuckle Brothers-style farce that was moving it all to the kitchen, but due to the presence of two items that stood out from rest of the order. A bucket and …