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H is for holidays… or rather hospital visits!
As a parent, I always wondered how I will know when to take a child to the ER and when it just needs a doctor visit. I never knew how I would figure that one out. I have always had a healthy baby. Healthy in the sense of no hospital visits and does not regularly get sick. The difference is, when little Mi gets sick, it has almost always been bronchitis or on the verge of pneumonia. Once a year every year for the past 4 years. Oh, and the Covid once but that cleared in two days – thankfully. So, when we decided to go visit my mom-in-law in…
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Leaving your child overnight for the first time
Am I the only one who had some anxiety thinking about this? I found this to be such an emotional battle from within! This caused me much confusion. At times I felt alone in my decisions and thinking processes. So much pressure is put on the mom to feel certain ways about this. Can anyone else relate? Did you go through this too or was it easy to leave your little one? The first time The first time I left my little Mi was to go to a friend’s wedding 400km away. She was just over a year old so I felt she was old enough – but that didn’t…
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The rollercoaster ride of teaching during Covid-19
Tough times don’t last, tough people do. Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out perfectly. Rather, it is knowing that YOU will be okay no matter how things turn out. Possibly the most spoken about occupation during Covid-19 in South Africa = teaching! Close the schools, open the schools, postpone grades returning, pass all the learners, scrap the school year. Those were some of the lines being thrown around since lockdown has hit. The most uncertain sector during this whole lockdown is definitely the education sector. Closing schools for lockdown The schools officially closed around the 18th of March, right before our national lockdown was announced. Many…
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Big emotions & little people
When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm instead of joining their chaos. Imagine being a small child & having to deal with all these emotions around them, when us as adults often battle to make sense of the world? You put some of her favourite snacks in a bowl for her, yet she screams as if the world is ending. You walk into her room when she has just woken up & you would swear it’s a monster that just walked in. You pick her up from school where one day she will run into your arms & the next she runs…
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Birth expectations vs Reality: No one is a failure!
Dear mom who wanted to breastfeed but couldn’t – you are NOT a failure. Dear mom who wanted to give natural birth but couldn’t – you are NOT a failure. We all come up with a plan of how we would like the birth to go. Whether it happens like that or not is a different story. And worst of all, moms are often riddled with guilt for not following the socially accepted norm of breastfeeding and natural birth. Well, I couldn’t do either & I am here to share my story. My gynae never pushed me towards a certain manner of birth. He asked us what we wanted. We…
