Ramblings

Random dropin timing meant Charlie got to meet her Great Great Aunt Thelma and cousin Marion from Adelaide

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Gwen and Robin popped in with Gwen's sister Thelma and her daughter Marion- perfect timing, they were visiting from Adelaide and passing our place when Kaitlyn and Charlie were here. via Instagram http://instagram.com/p/ZpP9KFGwUJ/

Tummy time

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Meeting Cat-Dog (Uncle Kieran has brought out his toy collection!

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Meeting Eeyore

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141/365: Visit by a very hungry baby caterpillar :)

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Snug as a ...

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Smile for Mummy

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But what are you going to DO?

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Since my announcement last week, that I had resigned from my paid work, the second question (After "but WHY?") has been "But what are you going to DO?" I am sure my daughter Kaitlyn would happily extend her 40 days indefinitely, in which I have been doing her washing and housework while she focuses on her newborn and we have been together every day, out & about and at home. That is one thing I

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Babies need Books: Charlie's Bookshelf

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To say I have a passion for books is an under-statement. To say I have a passion for children's books is well-beyond under-statement. I cannot recall life without children's books in it - my own childhood, the years until I had my own children and the years until my first grandchild arrived - the books remained. Books are to me as air and water and the thought of a home without books is

Hold Me Close - skin2skin

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I am passionate about skin to skin for newborn babies. It is the natural state human infants are born expecting. It stimulates baby led attachment at the breast. It stabilises body temperature, heart rate and breathing in premature and mature babies and it encourages bonding and helps heal the trauma of medical intervention separating mother and baby. It also feels great! When my daughter was

Selfie ;)

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The cat and the shadow

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Nuff said @ozbreastfeeding

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Kangaroo Care @frankstonaba @ozbreastfeeding

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Kangaroo care @frankstonaba @ozbreastfeeding

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Says it all

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Part Two: what shall i do with my second fifty years?

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It is almost exactly 7 years since I started to work in the brand new ABA Victorian Branch Office. That office had previously been the onsite print shop at the ABA Head Office in East Malvern and was lovingly cleared, painted and prepared by our Branch President Karen and her team of volunteers about a year before and had basically been acting as a storage space until such time as funds became

Close enoughcto kiss

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131/365: Focus

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Melissa's new little friend, a hedgehog puppet.

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(Why) I'm not dead yet

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Given I am on the cusp of menopause, my life-purpose, from a biological perspective, is done and dusted and lifetime should be ending with my fertility. But it isn't. Because I am human. Have you ever wondered why? There is a concept I wholeheartedly accept, known as the Grandmother Hypothesis. Unlike most other mammals - with the exception of other highly-evolved species including whales -