Why a water birth? I have an article from a newspaper, which I’ve saved since 1999. I read it in the Metro when I was 19 years old. It was about water births, and even then I thought: one day, eventually, that’s what I want. Everything I read in the article seemed so logical to …
De winnaars van de eerste Facebook-actie Hoe zijn de winnaars gekozen? De winnaars zijn random gekozen. Elke inzending kreeg een nummer toegewezen via een programma online. Uit alle inzendingen/nummers zijn er 6 nummers via random.org gegenereerd. Vervolgens is er gecontroleerd of alle pagina’s zijn geliked en het of bericht openbaar gedeeld is op Facebook (voorwaarde van …
This blog post is about new baby visits. In the Netherlands it’s traditional to visit the new baby and parents as soon as possible after the birth. Most parents send a birth announcement card in the first few days after their child’s birth, and once the card is received it’s a green light to come …
De winactie! **HET IS NIET MEER MOGELIJK OM MEE TE DOEN! 11 MEI KOMT DE TWEEDE ACTIE ONLINE ** Ik heb 1x wat gewonnen op Facebook en ik was als een kind zo blij 🙂 Ik vind het dan ook super tof dat ik zoveel mooie en leuke spullen mag weggeven, dankzij jullie! Door jullie, …
Why cloth diapers? Ever since I declared my intention to use cloth diapers, I regularly get asked: “why in heaven’s name do you want to use cloth diapers?!” and the comment: “I couldn’t do it, all those dirty cloths covered in poop.” Denny said the same thing in the beginning, and since we had an …
The nursery, with the perfect rocking chair! Denny and I have always said that we wouldn’t have a nursery. We didn’t mean that the baby wouldn’t have a room, but we both agreed that it wasn’t necessary to buy a full set of nursery furniture for a lot of money. We didn’t want a ‘display …
DIY tips for maternity photos | The Belly DIY Last year I dedicated a newsletter to the topic of taking your own maternity photos. It would be such a shame to let the special time go by without photos. My father took photos of my mother nearly 35 years ago, when she was pregnant with …
Stuff which is handy when you have a baby? I’ll be honest – Denny and I are pretty skeptical about a lot of things. We think a lot of things are nonsense. Luckily we both feel the same way, usually. The baby monitor is an exception, because Denny wanted one with a camera, which I …
Pregnant: the fantasy and the reality Before you were pregnant, did you have an idea of what it would be like? And once you were pregnant, was it actually like that? I’ve had years in which to fantasize about being pregnant: how it would feel, what I would do, what I would and wouldn’t eat… …
Questions and Answers On Facebook , and in my last blog “Babynames“, I asked all of you, “What do you want to know about the pregnancy, the birth or the early days with baby?” We received a lot of questions. We’ve bundled them together (and some we’ve combined because they were very similar), and the answers are …