The Wilson Lot

I apologise in advance for the extra-long rant about feeding babies! Breastfeeding.  You read and hear so much about it in the media, whether it be on the news, websites for parents, Facebook support groups and the various health services you are involved with when you have your baby.  All of it promotes breastfeeding and how this is the best and healthiest way to feed your baby.  I can’t disagree with them;  breast milk is there for a reason and it is to feed your child and give it your antibodies and the goodness you hold within you.  Though I cannot deny that breastfeeding is the most perfectly natural thing for a mother to do, for a lot of us, it comes with hardship and pain (both physical and emotional).   For those that choose from the outset not to breastfeed, that is their choice to make and a brave one to make in today’s society.  For once you tell your midwife or health care assistant that you wish to bottle feed, you se...

It goes without saying that when you become a parent, you are immensely proud of your child.   Their first smile brings with it the most amazing feeling of joy and these moments make you realise how happy you are and how precious a gift having children is.   I know all too well that my boys are a gift; the one thing I have always wanted.   Even from being a little girl, I knew the one thing I definitely wanted to be was a mother and today, I pinch myself to make sure that it isn’t a dream.   That these perfect little boys are mine for keeps! Every day, I wonder though, are we doing a good job at raising them?   I think we are.   Ian and I both have our strengths and we don’t seem to be too far off in how we feel about raising the boys.   As long as we are doing the best we can and are making decisions with the boys’ welfare at the core, then I think we are doing a good job.  Of course, we both have our weaknesses too.   I kno...

When you’re pregnant, you get lists upon lists of what you’ll need for Baby or your hospital bag.   But what sort of advice do you get about what you need when Baby is here?   The only thing I got TOLD (not advised, but lectured) was to sleep when Baby was sleeping.   Does anyone do this?   I never did with Jacob and I certainly don’t now.   There is too much to do and it is nice that when Jacob is doing a jigsaw puzzle or watching a DVD of an afternoon, I get to read the paper or have a browse on the Internet.   Or my new favourite hobby; playing on Pinterest! Well, here I have made a list of my top 10 post-Baby essentials.   Whether it be a good stain remover, or handy items to have around the house. 1.  Biotex – The best stain remover ever! Biotex is probably the best household product to have under the kitchen sink.   Baby poo or milk stains, or even spilled coffee and grubby socks, if you soak whatever it is in cold w...

I think it was March 2012 when I first heard of the Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed).   I was intrigued after reading the reviews of the first book on Waterstones.com but the reason I didn’t buy the books there and then was because I was caught up in Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries (the novels which the fantastic True Blood is based on). Over the past few weeks, I have read comments on Facebook about the Trilogy.   They were being described as “racy”, “mummy porn” and a “must read”.   More negatively, I had also read that it was a copy of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga and that it was just explicit fan fiction.    I thought I should make my mind up for myself, so I went on iBooks and downloaded them last Wednesday. If you haven’t heard of the books (although I doubt anyone hasn’t heard of them by now), this is the blurb from Waterstones.com: “When literature student Anastasia Steele interv...