When you’re hitting the big three oh and you still feel like a teenager – zits and all. Apologies for the super lengthy post, but I hereby promise to disclose all I know about acne-prone skin and how to avoid those darn adult breakouts. I wrote this about a year ago, just before turning 30. […]
motherhood
How do you protect your children from the world and the beast that is social media?
I’ve never seen myself as paranoid, but somehow motherhood has turned me into an extra careful, suspicious and cautious person. Maybe some would even call it paranoid, but it just takes a couple of dodgy experiences, some upsetting conversations and a few disturbing news headlines to turn you into exactly that. How do you keep […]
Postpartum Mental Health: My experience with the Baby Blues, a terrifying moment involving a car seat, Colic and Vaginismus
This is a very long story that includes tales of the baby blues, struggles of early breastfeeding, something that might have been postpartum depression, my journey with vaginismus and how I fixed the problem that was causing helluva stress in my own marriage. Be warned, if you don’t particularly like reading about the downright ugly […]
Birth Story: The day Juwan decided to join us
People always say how they were never warned about the bad side of pregnancy/birth/parenting, and it’s true, I also experienced it that way. I think they probably don’t tell you these things because they don’t want to scare you off, because YES – it really is worth it, despite all the hell you go through. […]
The joy and privilege of motherhood (and the story of how Juwan got his name)
This past month I’ve been surrounded by the wonderful news of the births of new little babies in our circle and it has me all nostalgic, so I thought it would be nice to finally write about our own pregnancy and birth story – the ups and the downs. I have a few tales to […]
New Baby & Kids Expo on the block: Cape Kids Collab
When I heard about the Cape Kids Collab Exhibit sometime last year, I was curious as to what the vibe would be like. The venue: Avenue Venue – 40 Dock Road at the Waterfront in Cape Town. The only frame of reference I had was exhibits like the massive Mamamagic, usually held at convention centres, […]
I am more than just a mom… BUT…
And it’s a big BUT. Society puts a lot of pressure on the modern woman, not to mention the modern mom. We are told that we can be whatever we want, but the idea that is sold to us is more than that. What society tells us is that we also should be more, must […]