I took 6.5 months of parental leave. I’ve previously shared how valuable it was to have Tee at home for the first two months (leave + WFH). His return to the office was the first test for our equal parenting approach. We didn’t have a game plan but used trial and error to find something […]
Shared feeding: what worked for us
It’s part II of my award-winning series on feeding! You’ve read my manifesto on shared feeding; this is how we’re doing it: Newborn phaseTee gave Buddy a bottle a day from week one. This was usually in the evening, as part of Midwife Cath’s famous ‘BBB’ routine, outlined previously. This meant more sleep but also […]
Shared feeding or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bottle
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 […]
How we survived the newborn phase
People talk about the newborn phase as the hardest one to share, as parents. Best intentions come up against biological realities. This is how we approached it. Weeks 1-4: survival modeWe were both on leave, allowing us both to go all-in. We gave ourselves clear roles, as we did during pregnancy. I was the Head […]