Welcome to Born Free Baby!

I'm going to use this blog to chart my journey into first-time parenthood. Baby B is due in January 2011. It seems to me that there is a money-sucking baby industry out there, and you could easily believe that you have to spend an awful lot of money when you have a baby. Can this really be the case? And so much of how our Western culture treats babies (and their parents) seems to me to be at odds with what our evolution has so perfectly designed for us. Are the 2 related?

When Baby B arrives, I want to bring him/her up in a way that is free from as many of the trappings of materialism as possible, and stay as true to what mother nature intended for us as I can, given that I live in 21st Century Britain. I wonder whether bringing up Baby B in a natural, environmentally aware way will also save me money. Let's see...

I'd love to hear from other mums and dads who share the same outlook. Feel free to use this blog to share ideas, tips and philosophies on life!

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Happy Nappies!

36 weeks pregnant today! Not long now, though it still doesn't quite seem real that there's going to be a baby around the house in the next month or so. Several friends have given me hand-me-down real nappies - some of them have never been used. You get a voucher from the Council towards the cost of buying real nappies, and I used this to buy the odd few bits that I didn't get second-hand. I might never need to buy a nappy at all! And helping to save the planet at the same time!
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