When I blogged that we were looking for wedding venues… I may have been fibbing a little bit. We actually planned our wedding just after we got engaged and kept it a secret. Once we had chosen our wedding venue and started planning the details, we asked ourselves… why wait? Why wait months or years […]
Relationships
It takes more than DNA to make a Daddy
You don’t get to choose your family, but it’s not always DNA that makes a family. Any man can father a child but it takes someone special to be a Daddy. Baby Bear… I want to tell you about Mike… Actually, you know him as Daddy. In the beginning, we called him “Daddy Mike” but now […]
Baby Bear’s Birth Story
I was 42 weeks and 1 day pregnant and despite desperately wanting a spontaneous labour and a natural birth, I had resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to be induced. I woke up with pains, the morning before my induction at 3:50 am. I didn’t get my hopes up, because I’d woken […]
The Tinder Experiment: Dating as a single pregnant mum
Tinder is renowned for being probably THE most shallow dating network around. You glance at someone’s photo, make a 2 second judgement on that person based purely on their looks in that one specific photo and then swipe left to get rid of them if they don’t float your boat, or swipe right if you […]
Mummy how does the baby get out of your tummy?
It began with 9 year old Bunny’s questions… “Mummy how did the baby get in your tummy?” “Mummy how does the baby get out of your tummy?” “Mummy how is SD the baby’s daddy when he’s not your boyfriend?” So I bought a little book called “Mummy laid an egg” by Babette Cole after reading recommendations […]