When we were kids porn came from only a few sources- your uncle's playboys hidden in the attic or under the bed at the cottage and Xavier Hollander's Happy Hooker read outloud at slumber parties. Today porn is readily available and even impossible to avoid. My daughter did a grade one French … [Read more...]
Exclusive Pumping: Not Your Worst Option
When you have a baby in BC, they send a public health nurse to come and make sure you know what you're doing and that your living room isn't a meth lab, and with our little one, things were no different. And while the nurses at the hospital were amazing and lovely and I wanted to bring each of them … [Read more...]
Time to indulge
Your first pregnancy is the most indulgent time of your life. Sadly I can't say the same for round two and I expect it just gets worse for round three and (gasp!) round four. In my first pregnancy I took amazing care of myself. I slept when I needed to, put my feet up when I was feeling fatigued, … [Read more...]
FotoFriday – Full Circle
I had a very clear full circle moment last night as I was helping my almost-12 year old "antique" paper for his social studies project. I remember doing the exact same activity for school with my Mum when I was his age. When I see my kids doing the same things I did as a child...it's incredibly … [Read more...]
Imperfect – An Introduction
Hiyaaa! This is Beyond the Bump and I'm so excited to be blogging here. Like many of you reading, I'm a crazy busy lady. I work full time in PR, teach one day a week, manage an online fabric shop, run my personal blog, have a two year old son, oh and I'm six months pregnant. Have a similar list? … [Read more...]
Head first.
It seems that anything worth doing is worth doing head-first. Is this a boy thing? Is it a personality trait? Is this reckless abandon something I could stand to learn to incorporate into my own life? Am I fated to spend the next eighteen years standing at the foot of the metaphorical slide, … [Read more...]
Pulling Back
So I haven't been immune to all the talk on parenting sites and the media in general about screens, and the inordinate amount of time we spend on them. It's just that I was never all that inclined to do much about my own use of screens (Facebook! Pinterest! iPhone in bed!) or the amount of time … [Read more...]
Can You Talk “The Talk?”
It started last year, my eldest daughter questioning where babies come from. Caught off guard, I mentioned something about "a special hug between a mommy and daddy" then changed the subject. It satisfied her curiosity at the time, but recently her questions resurfaced and we felt the time had come … [Read more...]
Bathing Your New Baby!
The first few weeks of your baby's life you may not want to rush into bath time. It's perfectly ok to give him sponge baths. As long as his face, hands and genital area are clean, there really is no rush. Bathing your baby for the first time can be intimidating but doing so in a relaxed and safe … [Read more...]
words for wednesday- be wild with your creation
I finished up an ambitious project yesterday with a group of 15 artists at a school.(Please take a look I am so proud of it) I asked them to do a banner for our art show and to decorate it any way they wanted. My little 8 year old friend came up with this all on his own and I love it so much. BE … [Read more...]
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