bumpinowp – Page 4

August 6, 2020anxiety, attachment, breastfeeding, calm, change, emotions, empathy, family, feelings, learning, love, mental health, mother, neonatal, Parenting, patience, perseverance, positivity, premature, relationship

To boob or not to boob

Too much, too little, on-demand, engorged, painful, sore nipples, forever hungry, mastitis, blocked ducts, embarrassing leakage, breast pads, exhausting, emotional, frantic feeds, […]

July 20, 2020adventure, anxiety, attachment, attunement, birth, change, emotions, family, feelings, grateful, guilt, love, mother, neonatal, Parenting, patience, peace, perseverance, positivity, pregnancy, premature, relationship, rollercoaster

You just gotta ride it

Neonates. What an all-encompassing, all-consuming, emotionally exhausting experience. I’m finding it hard to find the words to say to describe the 19 days Awena […]

July 8, 2020adventure, anxiety, birth, body, calm, change, emotions, family, feelings, labour, mother, Parenting, peace, pregnancy, rollercoaster

Life is a Rollercoaster

On the 21st May, I started preparing to write a blog entitled Life is a Rollercoaster. Seven weeks later, I am finally […]

May 12, 2020adventure, anxiety, birth, body, change, emotions, family, feelings, grateful, Hope, labour, love, mother, Parenting, peace, perseverance, positivity, pregnancy, relationship, self-care

Canvas of Life

After a chat with my family last night and having been asked the question “have you got any news” and finding the […]

May 7, 2020baking, cooking, Creativity, date, decoration, Food, Health, Nutrition, foraging, fun, indoor, sea buckthorn, seasonal, self-care

Choux stopper

Last week I said that I’d share the recipe Daf and I created as one of our “date jar” activities, so to […]

April 28, 2020Activity, adventure, change, communication, cooking, Creativity, date, emotions, family, family time, feelings, Food, Health, Nutrition, foraging, learning, love, mental health, mother, patience, perseverance, positivity, relationship, self-care

We never change

Daf and I have never been particularly good at “date night”. Early on the pressure to do something super original and fun […]

April 21, 2020attachment, attention, attention-seeking, attunement, basic need, communication, emotions, empathy, family, family time, feelings, grateful, mental health, mother, Parenting, perseverance, positivity, self-care

I will survive

A couple of weeks ago we had a zoom catch up with some lovely folk and heard about all the things those […]

April 15, 2020baking, basic need, breakfast, cereal, cooking, craft, Creativity, family, Food, Health, Nutrition, fruit, mental health, morning, mother, self-care, Uncategorized

Morning has broken

I thought today it might be nice to write something which can draw us away from the topic that seems to dominate […]

April 8, 2020Activity, adventure, birthday, change, Creativity, emotions, family, family time, grateful, indoor, mental health, mother, Parenting, patience, perseverance, positivity, self-care, socializing

Make a memory

So here we are again. The days are long, the weeks even longer, but the moments are still there. As we battle […]

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020adventure, anxiety, attachment, attention, attention-seeking, attunement, basic need, busyness, change, communication, community, Creativity, education, emotions, Exercise, family, family time, feelings, Hope, individuality, indoor, learning, mental health, mother, Parenting, patience, perseverance, play, positivity, self-care, Uncategorized

What I go to school for

To encourage you all, this week has been significantly better. Having taken my own advice last week we have gotten off to […]