Tag Archives: new motherhood

Approaching the end of the first year

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Sarah

Three months since I went back to work. The weather is finally getting warm and my daughter, who this time last year was getting ready to be born, is now rapidly learning to move herself around. These last few weeks … Continue reading →

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Surviving

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Sarah

The first three weeks are done. I’ve officially stepped over the threshold into the “working mum” phase of my life. It’s kind of a relief, no longer to have it looming in the future… no longer to feel panicked at … Continue reading →

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Another four months

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Sarah

Another four months have passed since I wrote about the first four months with my baby. My partner has just begun his four months of parental leave; we are overlapping by two weeks, so that we can all adjust, and … Continue reading →

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Becoming a mummy: the first four months

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Sarah

I first saw her at twenty to one in the morning, at the end of 30 hours of labour that culminated in a forceps delivery in an operating theatre. I was very unwell from the spinal block, uncontrollably shaking, and … Continue reading →

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Posted retrospectively

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Sarah

There is something unique about the abject misery that has overwhelmed me at intervals during this pregnancy. There is something about the desperate, animal rawness of the crying that is as harrowing to witness in myself as it is refreshing … Continue reading →

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