The Student Mum Diary
Today, our baby turned one. We tried to spend the day without being on our phones, and just cherishing Leo's first birthday and talking about life a year ago today. When you're pregnant, you can't imagine what it will be like to hold your baby for the first time. You think about the kind of …
Before you have a baby, you can't even start a conversation without someone telling you about how hard raising a child is with the sleepless nights and the dirty nappies. The same happens when you get a puppy or a kitten, you get the "no more holidays for you, you're tied down now!" or "they're …
If you're a mum, you can never win. You stay at home and you're 'lazy', you go to work and you 'don't spend enough time' with your child/children. The "full time mummy" stigma is getting old and the rise of motherism is too, (the fact that there's a term for people judging 'full time mums' …
Routine, routine, routine. I live for organisation and schedules, but as a mum (and as a student), that doesn't always go to plan. In my first year of university I was in bed for 9pm most nights, (minus the nights I was out, at work or at the gym etc), then I would be up …
While I was carrying Leo, I had every pregnant woman's dream. No morning sickness, no weird cravings, I still fit into all my clothes so none of that 'my jeans fit me' one minute and the next 'the zipper won't even go up!' But one thing I was definitely, 100% lucky with was a urine sample which showed I had …
Today Leo is 6 months old. Some people wonder why parents make such a big deal over the 6 month age but it's a huge thing to a parent because so much has happened, and so much more is (usually) about to happen. It's really strange to think that Leo was born 6 months ago …
Leo, It has been a year since we began telling those closest to us about you. About how we were told I could be losing you because you weren't laying right in my tummy, but the Doctors did a scan and we saw your tiny heart beating on the screen. Your tiny little heartbeat. You …
Whether you have been or still are, being pregnant is hard... When people ask you “what are you expecting” I don't know, a boy? Girl? Bear Cub maybe? When your friends start telling you 'horror stories' about someone else’s birthing experience Enjoying your food when someone says “you shouldn't be eating that” Maybe you're right, …
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