Not Keeping Mum

Laura Maclennan - 23 Apr 18

Introduction

Welcome to Making Up Your Mummy Life. You don’t know me and I don’t know you; let me rectify one part of that right now.

I am Laura and I am Wife to The Science Dude and Mammy to The Awesome One – who actually just turned two! Please forgive my name for her, I am so incredibly biased and not remotely sorry!(see them above checking out Mammy’s Blog 🙂 )

I am the wrong side of 30 and I have just completed my first two year as a brand-new Mum aka The Fastest Years know to human kind. This has been alongside a return to work (4 days a week) running my Coaching & Cosmetics business on the side, leaving my job and starting an additional business teaching Baby Sign Language and deciding somewhere along the line to pen this for all of you!
Unsurprisingly I am tired but I am also the friend you need when it is all going to pot and I am the crazy lady who will visibly ‘sprinkle’ you with invisible magic dust to send you safely on your next adventure.

Now, I want to be upfront from the offset. I do not have any actual answers here. I am not going to be here writing to tell you what you should do or exactly how it will be for you; we are all so very different and how we each react to having babies will be individual to us all – that is a given. I just believe that what I will share, will have been experienced or about to be experienced by you as you continue your foray into this Brave New World of Motherhood AND The World of Work – and I didn’t find it in any of the books, internet pages or magazines I read; not compiled like this anyway. What I can also offer you is some practical tips at the end of every chapter to guide you in ‘Not Keeping Mum’ that have worked for me; many after trial and error!

I’m not here to give you any answers to anything because I don’t have them. I just want to be able to give you a bit of realistic insight to how your life will look when your baby comes or indeed let you know that you are not alone if you are reading this and know exactly what I am talking about. Whoever you are and however you choose to parent, I want you to know that it is ok and it is going to be ok! I also write because being fresh back from a visit to the family doctor, I need an outlet to share and you guys are it. Also, I want to remember who I am….

So, whether you are a brand-new mammy reading this through one eye during a night feed, a seasoned mama who is reading this on her phone whilst locked in the bathroom eating a <insert chocolate name of choice> or a lovely mummy to be who is just looking for some clue, any clue about what is about to befall her, I hope you enjoy and I hope you know how blinking awesome you are!

You really, really are!

Sprinkle, Sprinkle,

Laura xox

P.S I wanted to dedicate this blog to me for surviving but apparently, that’s a bit egotistical and not at all ‘me’. So, cheers Science Dude and Awesome One; you are the reason for everything. Cheers to each and every one of you! x

Laura Maclennan

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