About Me!

Hi! I’m Alex, a 29 year old new Mum, living in the North of England with my husband; Mike, our son; Sidney, and our fur baby; Bruno.

I gave birth to our little boy, Sidney, on Monday 4th May 2020. A ‘lockdown baby’, a ‘Coronial’, but that story is for another time. 

I decided to start a blog, and an account of my journey into motherhood because I just have SO much new found spare free time! That’s obviously a joke, and not even a funny one. For me, this is a passion project, a way to express how I’m feeling and finding things, and an outlet to vent. 

I stumbled across a quote during the middle of a night feed, and it really resonated with me.

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning”

That’s how I would best describe motherhood so far. I’ve experienced almost 10 years working in the marketing department for top brands; pitching for huge contracts, partnering and collaborating companies on multi-million pound deals. Motherhood has to be the hardest role I have taken on to date. And just when I think I’m onto something, and that I may have possibly cracked it, reality sweeps in like a wine-over on Boxing Day and hurls me straight back to reality. Reminds me, even 6 months in, I am still very much a beginner at this, an absolute rookie, and to stay, and remain on point!

Maybe I’m crazy, and this is a lack of a night sleep in over 6 months decision. (Don’t worry Mums out there who have experienced longer than this, I’m not here to play parenting Top Trumps on this one!). But having a baby during lockdown, and experiencing such a lack of postnatal support out there, I want to document this, I want to share what’s going on, I want to express how I’m navigating parenthood. Maybe it will help another Mum out there, they do say, ‘a problem shared is often a problem halved’. Maybe, and selfishly, it might just help me and my mental health. And if that’s the case, that too is ok. 

So bear with me, and come with me as I write and share getting to grips with this new Mummy life. As I realise (quickly and rather abruptly), this isn’t a response to a brief, there are so many outstanding SLA’s, deadlines are constantly missed and forever looming, babies are not robots and there are no York Notes guide or cheat sheets available. This is Motherhood. This is learning to parent during a pandemic. The hardest and most rewarding thing ever.

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