In my last post I said the newborn phase was where best intentions crashed into biological realities. I think that’s partially true. However there’s scope to shift our rhetoric and practices in one key area: feeding the baby. Here in Sydney, we receive fantastic post-partum support from the public health system. Community nurses are there […]
Doing less child care
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to shrink the pie – how to reduce the overall burden of household labour. In some ways, spending fewer hours on housework and paid work are easy. Those blog posts will write themselves. But child care/ parenting? That’s fraught. In late 2018 NYT published an article […]