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!

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Baby's here!

Well I haven't posted for a while, and here's why: baby Emily arrived on New Year's Day, so I've been pretty busy since! What an amazing 6 weeks it's been, learning to be a mummy to this tiny little person. I think things are going pretty well. Breastfeeding has got off to a good start, and what an incredible thing it is too! It feels quite wonderful to be nurturing and nourishing my baby from my own body, and I know that it is giving her the very best start in life that she could have. I feel very sad for mums who want to breastfeed but who end up not being able to for whatever reason, especially where had they be given better advice and support things might have worked out differently for them.

I have to be careful of developing an ebay habit - such a wonderful source of cheap, secondhand clothes, but I find myself developing a twitchy finger and bidding when I probably shouldn't...

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