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How much do we sacrifice our "space" when baby comes?

28/6/2018

Firstly, as the inspiration for this blog post, I would like to congratulate Chloe Green (daughter of Philip Green and so-called “Top Shop heiress”) and Jeremy Meeks (“the hot felon”) who have welcomed their first child together, a boy, Jayden Meeks-Green. We hope you have a wonderful first few weeks and months together and that is what I want to talk about...

According to news reports, Chloe was keen to give birth on her yacht (with her doctor in attendance) and plans to spend the first few months adjusting to motherhood at sea because that is where she feels safe, relaxed and at home. Now this got me thinking - whilst Chloe’s choices would be out of the reach of the rest of us mere mortals, there is much to be said and indeed celebrated about Chloe’s approach. Isn’t it the wish of all new mothers (or parents in fact) to give birth and to spend the first few weeks (if not months) in a place where they feel relaxed and safe?

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Is equality and presence in the family an absurd waste of money?

18/6/2018

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You may have seen the coverage in the news recently about Kirstie Allsopp flying in business class while her sons (aged 10 and 12, I believe) were seated separately in economy. Her official reason for this, apparently, is so they “don’t get spoiled” and to fly them in business would be “an absurd waste of money”. I want to look at this for a moment. Far from wanting to shame Kirstie, the mainstream media has done enough of that, I feel that her words and deeds are symptomatic of a number of wider societal issues.

If one stops to think about this logically for a moment, her argument has some serious flaws unless of course she denies her children all the other trappings of material wealth such as living in a nice house (I presume they are not banished to a shed at the bottom of the garden, or perhaps something akin to student accommodation until they are earning their own money)?

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A broken feeding culture... actually a broken culture

12/6/2018

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I read the articles on infant feeding this morning. I read the information from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) too - and I cried. As someone who calls themselves an "infant feeding practitioner" rather than a breastfeeding supporter, because it is not my business how you feed YOUR baby, I found all of this made me rage and not for the reasons you might think.

My over-riding sensation was how very broken our culture must be for me to be seeing these headlines. What kind of culture do we live in where the RCM felt a need to tell midwives not to shame mothers? What kind of culture do we live in where the media are allowed to take one sentence from a large general document and turn it into a massive assault on both midwives and breastfeeding advocates, without any concern for them or the mothers who now feel pressured and didn't before?

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The problem with picky eating

10/6/2018

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This image popped up on my newsfeed yesterday, and it got me thinking.

What food would you refuse to eat? Mine would be oysters. They just don’t appeal to me at all. Never tried them. Don’t want to try them. Couldn’t pay me to try them. If I see someone eating them, I feel a bit queasy. But I’ve never tried them and couldn’t tell you what they actually tasted like.

But it’s ok for me to not like oysters (even though I’ve never tried them). If someone offered me oysters and I said, ‘No thanks’, they’d leave me be.

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