loopyloulaura

Now that I have stopped breastfeeding Zach during the day I can start to reclaim my own identity. It isn’t selfish (I hope!) to want to be Laura sometimes rather than Mummy. I will never be the same person I was before children, nor would I want to be. But being me again as a […]

Three weeks ago I decided to stop breastfeeding Zach to sleep twice a day so that he could sleep train as he had already done at night. See this post and this one if you’ve missed them! It hasn’t been easy. UNDERSTATEMENT! The first two weeks were pretty much a write off. Sometimes he ended […]

Zach’s birth had a lot to live up to after the ease of Anya’s. It didn’t 🙁 Everything was planned to coincide with the Easter holidays and therefore my break from all three school jobs. He was due on the first day of the holiday. He didn’t come. I waited…and waited…and waited… until I had […]

Now this is my favourite birth. I didn’t really believe it was happening and kept thinking it was going to get a lot worse. I woke in the early hours with vague contractions but just went back to sleep. In the morning while feeding Matthew his breakfast, my parents were laughing at how I was […]

This was awful! Nearly a year after having Matthew, my sister was due to give birth and she chose me and her husband to be birthing partners. I can honestly say it was worse than giving birth myself. Having to watch someone you love be in excruciating pain is simply awful. When her waters broke […]