I used to end my blogs with:-
Meltdowns -
Losing the plot -
Breastfeeding -


I am grateful for all the other gentle parenting books and techniques and advice from like minded friends for allowing my children to express and emote and have the freedom to do so without fear of threats, punishment or negative discipline. For helping me understand that meltdowns are a communication and it's up to me as their mother to figure out what is being melted over me!! Sometimes I'm able to sort it and sometimes I'm not and that's also ok!
Losing the Plot: I'm much more accepting and way more able to justify and so am slightly less guilty about my plot losings!! They still occur, of course, but come on, I deserve a break don't I?!! Anyway as a mum of 3 lovely kids, I think I lost my plot a long time ago!!!

No longer are they pretty much solely for the nourishment and development of my babies. I miss how breastfeeding calmed down pretty much any situation and I love knowing that they had healthy in their bodies for at least 3yrs (two of them 5yrs) before they began to fill them with the not so healthy they have now. Breastfeeding wasn't always kisses and rainbows, there's been difficulties days and dark days and guilty days and sore days and OMFG I can't do this anymore days but they were always comforting days for my kids. I will miss breastfeeding.
Meltdowns - ketchup related
Losing the Plot - ketchup related
Breastfeeding - almost a distant memory, but I'll never really forget and the girls will carry the effects forever