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On Sleep and Sleep Training
This blog post was originally published on April 24th 2021 on Floating the Boat. When having a baby, mothers usually conglomerate to exchange tips, horror stories and, quite frankly, to get out of the house. Thankfully, I’m in quite a few lovely mothers’ groups and it is always interesting what other parents do/don’t do. Over the…
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Why I Put A Rhythm Over A Routine with My Baby
This blog post was originally published on January 16th 2021 on Floating the Boat. When I browse through Pinterest, I get hundreds of “Routine with Your Newborn” etc. etc. pictures that give you minute daily routines to the second that you should implement on your child as quickly as possible. In the many, many books I’ve…
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Why Sleeping Aids May Not Be A Bad Thing
This blog post was originally published on January 9th, 2021 on Floating the Boat. When I was pregnant, and even before, I held smug views on baby sleep. First of all, I was convinced MY baby would have no trouble falling asleep because it would be so cocooned in love and warmth that it would happily…
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Of the Gradual Momentous Love of Motherhood
This blog post was originally published on December 18th 2020 on Floating the Boat. Nothing can be paralleled with the love a mother has for her child. This is general knowledge, isn’t it. It is also one of the reasons I wanted to be a mother – I wanted to experience this ravishing, consuming, making-you-die kind of…
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The Fear of Proximity – A Civilised Problem
This blog post was originally published on December 10th 2020 on Floating the Boat. The minute babies are involved, everyone has an opinion – and most people dump them unwanted on you. While I am sure most people simply seek to help, the overwhelming avalanche of information can make it hard to find YOUR way…
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A Guide to a Chill Christmas Break
When I heard “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas” for the first time this year, one line stood out like never before: “And Mum and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.” So far, this line had never been relevant, but with my two kids now in nursery and kindergarten, the…
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Why I Want to Play More with my Children
“Mummy, can we play?” I get this question a lot. Play dollhouse, do a puzzle, play mermaids, colour something in, play dump trucks (that’s my son asking), etc. etc. I don’t know why, but often, this question causes me to squirm. Because, no, I actually don’t want to play a lot of the time, at…
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On Forgetting October and Getting Back to Work
Hello everyone and welcome back to Mama Bear Tales! With this year inching towards the end again (can you believe it?!), I thought about my plans I had for this year. One of these plans was to write a blog post every month, and apart from taking a short summer hiatus, I adhered to it.…
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On Settling In and Mental Load
Autumn is coming, and with it the settling in period at Finn’s Kinderkrippe (nursery school). I found the settling in period with Lily last year in Kindergarten immensely stressful, as she wasn’t dealing so well with it and I was constantly torn between the notion of having her “push through” and the instinct to take…
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