Week 1 The truth is you don’t really know what to do.  You bring your baby home and expect that you will get a revelation of what you need to do to calm, soothe, nurture and love your child.  You don’t think about how you will feel after your child cries for 3 hours straight [...]

So, after waiting anxiously for 40 weeks, hospital bag ready and dreading the pain of it all, there was no sign of baby.  Two days prior to my due date, my doctor advised me to induce the baby if the baby had not come by its due date.  More terrified of being induced than the [...]

Made popular, well to me at least, by Jodi Picolt, the collection of the cord blood is one of the fastest growing trends in medicine today. There is so much to consider when preparing for a baby.  Amidst the bugaboos and video monitors comes in the high cost of cord collection.  My hubs and I [...]

Announcing the new addition into our little family – a beautiful baby girl.  The wait was definitely worth it.  When they put this little angel on my chest I realised the 40 + weeks, the sleepless nights and the crazy contraction pain was all the worth it.  Wait!  Hold on a minute.  That’s what they [...]

One of the first things that people ask me when they meet me is, “Have you packed your hospital bag?”  Truth be said, I have asked that to many pregnant women before but I always just assumed that you put some clothes in a bag and you are set.  After excessive research and talking to [...]

With less than a month to go for baby to arrive and numerous trips to the mall only to come home empty handed, this is an update of my preparation. Mentally When experienced mothers meet me they look at me sympathetically and say, “Bet you are ready for baby to come out huh”, but the [...]

Anyone who knows me knows that I while like parties, I get really shy when the parties are about me.  I get all flustered when people make a fuss about me and having people gather for the sole purpose – me – makes me even more uncomfortable. For this reason when people started dropping hints [...]

Have you ever heard of a doula?  I hadn’t until very recently but apparently it is the new rave these days.  One of my friends used one for her delivery and swears by it.  At the time I didn’t think anything of it but now, as I draw closer to the finish line, I am [...]

I have a confession to make – I’m obsessed with strollers.  I don’t know where this obsession has stemmed from but I cannot kid myself anymore – strollers are my new obsession. When I was single, and even to a certain extent after marriage, when I strolled along the malls, cute guys made me stop [...]

Living in Dubai I have the luxury of fairly good weather for most of the year.  The summer months are awful as the heat is scorching but apart from that, Dubai provides perfect beach weather. So now that I am not working full time, I have decided to spend my spare time on the beach [...]