Despatches from a mother who started late (and is running to catch up)

Blog re-think

Regular readers of this blog might have noticed I haven't been posting much of late. Sorry about that. I do have a good excuse. New baby and all that. Many of you being mothers yourselves, there's little need to describe the chaos - joyful chaos, mind, but still chaos - involved in caring for a newborn. But Button is now more than six months old, sleeping through the night, eating three bowls of gloop daily (if you don't count the stuff that goes on her bibs) and beaming at us the rest of the time from her bouncy chair in the kitchen. Life has settled into some kind of tentative new equilibrium. I must admit I feel nervous writing things like that. As if tempting fate to throw everything up in the air again. Really hoping that doesn't happen. Could quite enjoy a nice, calm stretch of time. Facing nothing more momentous than a new route for the nursery run. Or going to this place for morning coffee; instead of this one. Life on a grand scale. But anyway, it's time to revisit the blog. After a longish gap from regular posting, I'm taking the opportunity to rethink what I want this site to be about. Until I work that out, my plan is to post around once a week on random subjects connected with pregnancy and parenting, none of them, it must be said, particularly connected with being a late starter mum, just things I personally happen to find interesting and that could be relevant to mums of all ages. Have done a couple of recent postings on help for pelvic pain in pregnancy, a subject close to my heart since, like an estimated one in five of all pregnant women, I suffered from the condition myself in both my pregnancies, and I'll be posting more on this subject from time to time. Partly to promote awareness of the problem, partly to offer support to women left immobile in their pregnancies by it. On a lighter note, now that I'm back on my feet and getting out and about more, I'll also be writing more about local activities in Edinburgh for toddlers and babies, looking at what's available and providing a few reviews. Last month I started classes in this practice, (pictured) which Button and I are both loving, and at some point in the next couple of weeks I'll be writing more about my experiences there. I've already posted about my adventures in the local park with other neighbourhood mums. There'll be other postings, too, looking at the pros and cons of different activities such as Baby Cinema, playgroups and the like.

Posted 03 February 2009 15:21

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