MumUnplugged

I know it’s a blogging faux pas to blog about not blogging, so I won’t.  But I will say that I’m sorry for not writing more lately, I think this has been my longest hiatus in quite some time and one where I have had about a million blog posts in my head but neither [...]

Wow…it’s the 13th of January today. How did that happen? Blogging has taken a bit of a back seat over the last five weeks while we dealt with Christmas, New Year,and some other pretty tough stuff. 2010 got off to a less than ideal start for me as I found myself back in hospital for [...]

When we woke up this morning the world was smothered in white; a thick blanket of snow - the most we’ve had in a long, long time - had covered everything.  Things look different on snowy mornings.  Everything looks clean and new, the mundane becomes beautiful under a glittering veil of brilliant, sparkly white.  Before [...]

I’ve been planning the blog post I was going to write today for a while now.  It was going to be a lovely surprise for most of you, accompanied by a fuzzy ‘alien in a snowstorm’ ultrasound picture.
We went for our 12-week scan yesterday, full of excitement and tentative talk about baby names, to be [...]

There are lots of things people don’t tell you about breastfeeding when you’re new to it. They don’t tell you about the toe-curling 10 seconds at the start of a feed, about the mortification of telltale wet patches on your t-shirt, or about the days when it feels like all you’ve done all day [...]

Having a baby is an expensive business.  From state-of-the-art buggies and luxury cot beds to nappies, endless clothes and mountains of toys, the spending starts before the baby is even born and continues, well…let’s just say I’m not hopeful of having any spare cash anytime soon.
The good news is that all those companies out there [...]

In the UK as of March 2009 many over the counter remedies that had helped parents and children navigate the minefield of winter coughs, colds and sniffles were branded ‘bad’ for children - some reported dangerous, others simply labelled as ‘ineffective’. Many of these medicines had been tried and trusted by mums for [...]

This post is part of the October Carnival of Breastfeeding, with the topic ‘what I wish I’d known’ - scroll to the bottom for more great posts laden with lessons learned the hard way! Image courtesy of Paula O’Hara Photography.
Wow. 22 hours of labour and an emergency c-section later, there I was, breastfeeding.  Easy, I [...]

I stumbled across this recently while scouring the web for inspiration on giving the site a bit of a makeover. Made both me and the Hubber laugh so I thought I’d share - clearly this guy’s experience was a very watered down version of what childbirth is really like (not much point saying you’ve [...]

When it comes to gadgets and technology, I normally can’t be bothered. Don’t get me wrong; I can see why people invest their money in swanky TVs, games consoles, surround sound systems, satellite navigation and all the other high tech accoutrements we’re led to believe we can’t live without. It’s just that when it [...]