It's funny how your life shifts once you have a baby and you spend more and more time with your 'mummy friends'. I know why, it's because friends without children do not want to sit through a whole meal discussing how The Bean has learnt to say 'upside down' - fascinating to me, rather dull for anyone else! Last night I went out with three of my 'mummy friends', two of who are newly pregnant with their second children and one who is breastfeeding (so obviously we danced on the bar whilst necking tequila shots all night). The conversation turned to, what else, labour and birth. It seems even if you've gone through labour and birth before the same fears crop up second and third time around. How long will labour be this time? Will I feel more in control? If I had an episiotomy last time, what happens this time? Luckily I was able to direct them all to gurgle where if there isn't an article on what you want, at least you can post a
chat discussion up, or ask a
question for other second time around mums to answer. I also felt a bit like a GP as they were firing questions at me, but that's what you get for being the editor of a parenting website...
Today on gurgle, we know that Christmas is drawing closer and i'll bet most of you aren't organised enough to have bought all your Christmas shopping yet (impossible to be organised with young children - right?) That's why we have articles on
Your baby's first Christmas,
Travelling with a baby and
car journeys with toddlers, to make Christmas more bearable for everyone this year. Good luck and let us know any
survival tips you have found useful in our
Chat forum.