I’m guessing that if you’re reading this then you have questions of your own. I hope that you find this mom to mom blog a source of information, companionship & inspiration. If nothing else, I hope it provides you with a few giggles as I navigate my way through the ups and downs of motherhood.
Each week I will be sharing the experiences, successes and failures of our family life. Topics like potty training our one-year old, our private home birth story, cloth nappies, using glass plates for our toddler, Lovevery Play Gym review, and colostrum harvesting while pregnant.
Motherhood has been a wild adventure so far. I am very much a person who questions everything, who likes to research and new try things, maybe a little off the beaten path. I do a combination of cloth and disposable nappies and wipes, I don’t own a steriliser and had a home birth without using the NHS. We’ve sleep trained, co-slept, and ruled out floor beds.
Since entering motherhood I have encountered a lot of questions from other mums, and have had a lot of my own. We don’t necessarily make the same choices, but it’s been such a blessing to share our experiences. The more I’ve spoken to other mother’s, the more I’ve realised just how ‘alternative’ some of our own choices have been. I’ve loved sharing our unique perspective, and have been blown away by the positivity and curiosity that I have encountered. That’s how this mom to mom blog came about. After a series of back and forth text messages with a mum-to-be, I was asked ‘why I don’t have a blog’… so now I do.
As our family grows, and my first born gets older, the more I have learnt, tried and tested. I’ve also realised how quickly new problems arise and how many solutions there are to choose from. I love being a mum, but let’s face it, it’s not easy! Finding the ‘right information for you’ can be hard and time consuming. With that in mind, I hope that this mom to mom blog helps someone encountering the same challenges.
Motherhood can be lonely at times, and I’ve found comfort and companionship in learning from other mums online. As our family grows and grows up, baby classes and real life interactions with other mums become harder. Just the other day I was at a play date with another mum and her son. Between requests for the potty, snacks, disputes over toys and the unavoidable bumps and bruises that come hand-in-hand with managing toddlers, we didn’t get to finish a single conversation. This scenario is repeated only too often. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s all part and parcel with my current season of life. But it does make swapping ideas, problems and solutions difficult with my mum friends in real life. That’s why more often than not I turn to the internet or social media for the answer to my latest motherhood, homemaking or marriage question. It’s also where I often find comfort and solidarity with other mums. While the age of the internet definitely has its downsides. Our ability to connect online is amazing. It has offered me the opportunity to view parenting styles from different countries and cultures. I have been able to find solace from the mirrored motherhood problems faced by mums I’ve never even met. While of course real-life interactions are still invaluable, I have been able to learn so much from other families online. All of whom have been gracious enough to share snippets of their family life with me. Now, I’m giving back a little too.