Megan Faure will be on Great Expectations on ETV today at 11:30am. She is speaking on Sleep and SIDS. Be sure to catch the interview.
I enjoy cooking for my family, but find myself making the same things over and over again. I remember cooking for both my boys when they went on to solids. The evenings spent boiling, mashing, steaming, blending and freezing everything. It was hard work, but I knew I was doing my best for my boys. Neither of them took to the jarred food, my oldest being sick every time I tried it with him. I found some delicious foods to make my kids as babies and as toddlers, but I would like to know your special dishes you like to cook for your family. Only 2 rules for this… it has to be quick and it has to be healthy.
I am a good mom, that’s what my husband tells me and if I stop and reflect on it, I probably am but I have a confession: I find it hard sometimes to just ’be’ with my kid’s. I would love to sit under a tree all afternoon, pick daisies or chat about the merits of carpet fluff. But the reality is that technology, my job and life in general has primed me to be impatient and distractible. I watch my mom and she is amazing. She can sit on the grass at Kirstenbosch Gardens and just while away the time with Emily.
In our frantic lives we can sometimes forget to put special 1 to 1 time aside for our children. Today try “Watch Wait and Wonder”.
In June we celebrate Father’s Day and Baby Sense wants to let you know about a special little bear we have in our online shop. His name is Tati Bear.
Don’t you just love the phrases and sayings your kids come up with while they get to grips with language. My favourite so far is when my son Tom was 2 years old. We woke up to find our garden covered in snow, the first of that winter. Tom looked out the window and gasped in glee. He could not believe his eyes and said “Look mummy - SUGAR.”
Clearly he has a sweet tooth.
Here is my breastfeeding story:
I am a mother three times over. It has been the journey of my life. Nobody told me that it would be so hard and so amazing, so tender and so harsh. You want to know about my ups and downs? Where do I being, one moment holds elation and the next despair and as my three get older, the ups and downs are just taller.
I have just come off the phone with a mum who is desperate to breastfeed her baby, but is finding the sacrifice too much. She is sore, she is tired and she has 2 other children to look after and is feeling tempted to bottle feed to ease the load. We chatted and shared our experiences of breatsfeeding and just that quick connection between mother to mother has encouraged her to keep trying. Parenting is full of ups, downs, decisions to make, joys and hard times, but I have always found that the greatest support comes from sharing your experiences with other mums. There is so much information available to us these days it can be hard to know what to follow and which decision is the right one. We forget to listen to our intuition which is usually right. I would love to hear stories of you following your intuition.
