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heatwave, baby
We live in a little granny flat behind a grand terrace in Sydney. A tradesman told J-man he thought it was once a horse stable – it’s an odd shape and there’s no doors or windows on the back wall. I...
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oh, baby
Today in Woolies, I saw this magazine and took a photo because it hit me right where it hurts. Had I seen this five months ago, while lining up to buy yet another humiliatingly giant packet of pads,...
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Two women with prams were happily chatting at the post office about their weekends, their work, their husbands and their babies. The perky blonde mum abruptly ended the conversation with “I’d better go...
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When I left work to go on maternity leave, I thought I would never return to the same office, probably never know the same people, and generally be a very changed woman by the end of those 10 months,...
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The smallest, loveliest person in our family turned one on Sunday. Here is a photo of her murdering some chocolate cake and destroying a smocked dress, probably handmade by elves. Her birthday made me...
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At 12.01am on January 1, 2014, as people outside cheered and turned up music and let off crackers, I was changing a very dirty nappy. One of those up-to-the-ears-all-up-the-back poops, that you cannot...
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One evening in May, J-man went to bed sick, asking me to check on him throughout the night. Just before I went to sleep on a camp mattress set up in the lounge room, I looked in on him, and under the...
View ArticleSo I don’t forget: A day with her
It usually starts with happy calls of what sounds like “daddy daddy daddy daddy daddy!”. She’ll be standing in her cot, with her leopard print blankie jammed in her mouth, or tossed on the floor....
View ArticleA thing about baby sleep
Breaking news: Babies are really tricky little jerks. When we were in hospital with CC in the days after she was born, she slept like crazy. She slept through many cuddles, she slept through her...
View Articlea little road barely on the map
Joe Hockey, the husband of a very successful businesswoman, used his position as Australia’s treasurer to say some things about housing affordability. It wouldn’t be a problem if people just went out...
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