Those who find it easy; and those who don’t. Those who stay at home; and those who go to work. The marathon-running moms; and the Netflix binge watching moms. Those who breast fed; who bottle fed; who did whatever it took. Those who went home with their baby; and those who are NICU veterans. Those […]
Me: “N! Guess what we are doing on Sunday? We are going to a farm to have a picnic and you can ride a horse!” N: “I don’t want to go”. Me: “But they have a trampoline!” N: “I don’t want to go to the farm” Me: “You can feed the horses and brush them” […]
Not knowing the baby’s gender, we had a boy name and a girl name at the ready. I was absolutely convinced that N was a girl, so much so that I gave no thought to what we would do if we should need to have a Bris. Anyway, once we were in the waiting game […]
One of the toughest decisions I anticipated us being faced with so far, is whether and when to start N on Ritalin, Concerta or something similar. Now that he is almost 5 years old, the decision was thrust upon us 2 weeks ago at our annual appointment with the Developmental Paediatrician. I am not a […]
To raise a child it definitely does take a village, but what does that village look like? One of my greatest realisations has been that each of our villages looks different. The composition of the village depends on many factors: family structure and dynamics, financial means, the needs of your child, the number of children […]
Type A. Perfectionist. Planner. Control freak. I am and have always been all of those things. From conception to delivery (and further), of all the things I had worried about, those that actually happened had never even occurred to me. While it was a part of my long-term plan to become a mother, it was […]
The mental load is something that I have read and thought about quite a lot since becoming a mother. This term “mental load” refers to everything that mothers have to remember and juggle in their minds; all the work that goes unseen. For example – scheduling medical and dental check-ups, booking haircuts, organising wardrobes as […]
As much as we were all eagerly awaiting N’s being able to express himself with words, there have certainly been moments when I’ve wished (and still wish) that he was not quite so ‘expressive’. Take our weekly outing to the shops (about 18 months ago) at a little centre packed full of friends, acquaintances and […]
Grief is not only a reaction to death; it can be a reaction to any form of loss. In this case, it is mourning the loss of an ‘ideal’. When you discover you are having a baby, you start to dream, hope and envisage the child that you will have and the life that they […]
Written by a respected friend and fellow ‘Therapy Mom’: As a ‘seasoned’ mother of a child with challenges, being in our 12th year of this journey, the lowest points on this road (by far) were those initial parent-teacher meetings. I wouldn’t sleep properly for a week before these meetings, I’d arrive there an absolute bundle […]