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Follow the rainbow

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Stuff I've tried | 2 Comments

A friend told me that the “problems” you face with your children don’t evaporate. They just keep changing. This is so true. I’m finding that now that Talitha can crawl, stand and even walk while pushing something, I don’t need to hold her quite as much – a relief. This does not translate, though, into me not needing to entertain her most of the time. So, we do end up with a lot of pick me up put me down, … →

Running for love: Win a bottle of English sparkling wine

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Our life is a Circus | 3 Comments

“I’m going to run the Bristol 10K.” When Laurence told me this I shrugged. Good for him, he could go lose his baby weight as long as I didn’t have to. I couldn’t think of anything worse. I’m really not a fan of running, for pretty much any reason. Almost every year that I’ve known him, he’s done something like this for charity. Twice it was the London to Brighton cycle ride. Once it was a Rickshaw Run across India. … →

To a baby with a flu

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Our life is a Circus | 12 Comments

Dear baby, I’m sorry you are so ill. It hurts to see you so dazed, worn out, inactive – well, for you, anyway, which probably means your fever’s making you behave like a normal baby instead of an infant mentalist, but I wouldn’t know. You latch my breast for moments before gasping for air. You wake up every hour, every two hours to feed again. Little and often is all you can manage right now. I am tired but so … →

Yeogurt fit for a baby’s hair

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Stuff I've tried | 10 Comments

Natural yogurt became a steadfast part of my daily routine the week I gave birth to Talitha. I had this huge paranoia about my health for some reason. Anyway, I ate enough of it to get really picky and set in my ways about it and now when I eat any yogurt, it doesn’t taste right if it’s not Yeo Valley. So I was intrigued when Yeo Valley invited me to come hang out with them last Friday. I wasn’t … →

12 things I learned at Cybher

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Blogging | 19 Comments

1. If you don’t pump for a day, even at eleven months into your breastfeeding journey, you WILL live to regret it I knew this. So my single electric pump was sitting there in my handbag saying “Hey, lactating lady, remember me?” but like a n00b I ignored it because I was having too much fun at Cybher, my first blogging conference. Also, despite working out where to pump with Mummy Limited who’d been organised enough to check it all … →

Going to Cybher with Wellies and Worms

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Blogging | 2 Comments

At the eleventh hour, friendly Bristol brand Wellies and Worms have stepped in as my sponsor for Cybher. And Cybher’s today! What heroes. I’ll tell you more about them next week. For now I’ll mention that they’re an ecommerce site selling outdoor clothing for children. Their products are both pretty and functional, and Wellies and Worms has such a bright feel as a brand. I’m glad they’re the ones sending me to Cybher.

Cybher Meet and Greet

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Blogging | 12 Comments

Ever Caribbean with my timing, I figured I should finally get around to doing my Meet and Greet post for Cybher, the blogging conference I’m attending this Saturday. Actually, I’m still early by Trini standards because the conference hasn’t happened yet. It must be the British peer pressure.

Baby Led Weaning Carnival 1 – apples, sushi and a lot of mess

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Baby led weaning | 6 Comments

Talitha turns eleven months this week. As if some chemical reaction was timed for the appearance of two teeth, she’s suddenly begun to eat substantial amounts of food. Despite my bravado, opting for Baby Led Weaning from the start, a small part of me worried about her entering her second year of life without much of an appetite for anything but boob. Mind you nothing’s necessarily wrong with that either. A mere century or so ago it was illegal to … →

Rub-a-dub-dub

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Stuff I've tried | 4 Comments

Talitha had her first bath when she was three weeks old. Marginally terrified, we let my mum do it. OK, we would have figured it out in the end but she was there and the newborn was screamy so we went for the easy option. My mother filled the awkward baby bath with water, set it on top of the toilet and showed us how to hold and wash our daughter. Talitha howled the whole time. Mummy assured us that … →

More of this feminism, please – Katniss and The Hunger Games

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Film and Television, While she sleeps | 14 Comments

I’m late to the party blogging about The Hunger Games but it’s such a luxury getting out to the cinema at all post-baby that I can’t help but mark the event. We ended up seeing it by accident. We’d actually bought tickets for the wrong viewing of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was disappointing when we eventually saw it. We sat for a full 20 minutes towards the film’s end, thinking it must be avant garde, before realising the … →

Introducing the Baby Led Weaning Carnival

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Adele Jarrett-Kerr Posted in Baby led weaning | 22 Comments

The health visitor came for a routine visit. I agonised beforehand about certain choices we’d made that we’re bound to be contentious, especially bed sharing and baby led weaning. Maybe she’d surprise me but I made up my mind to be suitably vague. I just didn’t want to get into it, you know? I keep thinking now that I should have. HV: How many times a day does she feed? Me: Oh, it varies. HV: She should be eating more … →

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