Twins

Over the Christmas break my sister gave birth to twins. In short they are adorable. I love babies, I really do. I was totally, completely and utterly OBSESSED with my own. But now she’s an actual teenager. So the thing I was most excited about when it came to the new babies was THE SHOPPING. There are…

Petit Bateau

My daughter wore quite a lot of Petit Bateau as a baby. This was mostly due to my mother going slightly nuts in the shop and buying everything. Their babygros are softer than soft but what I really loved was the… bum flap. I’m fairly certain this isn’t the technical name for it but it’s…

Tiger Mother?

As I mentioned in my Hygge post I didn’t spend much of my childhood in the UK. I think it’s this that makes me doubly interested in reading about people’s personal experiences of living somewhere that’s foreign to them. And now I’m a mother I’m particularly interested in how people raise their children. I find it fascinating. When…

Let’s talk about セックス…

It’s been reported that if Japan’s falling birth rate continues at the same pace the population will shrink by a third between now and 2060. Whilst neighbours China have just ended their one child policy after 35 years, brought about due to fears of a population boom, the Japanese are incentivising couples to have babies…