Phyl's Blog

You'd think that by number five, they wouldn't be able to outsmart you but when it comes to medicine Amaia has us well and truly bea...

You may just have noticed that I've stopped ranting about Léon's spots. Since he turned two, he had been plagued by sore little cys...

I'm all in favour of the NHS having a decent budget but I don't believe corners can't be cut to make it more efficient. This mor...

One of the problems with the low birth rate in Western countries is the fact that women don't have the experience to know what their bod...

Anna has proved herself to be one of life's copers over the past three weeks. On the day her stookie was put on she sat on a chair in th...

Well - almost. Anna broke her leg nine days ago as you know. Today I got a call from Marcel, who was meant to be with his father but when he...

The WHO says I shouldn't start feeding Amaia (remember the 10lb baby) till she is 26 weeks old - ie in another 5 weeks. The WHO is bar...

I went to a charity book sale that my friend was holding in aid of breast cancer in her back garden yesterday afternoon. Both she and her hu...

As we enter our third year of visits to Yorkhill still no closer to resolving Léon's ever-changing spot issue, it is with a mixture of...

André was having the three big kids this weekend. I was looking forward, therefore, to advancing leaps and bounds on our book-moving proje...

Don't you love medicine instructions? We've all had the cough mixture for four year olds that warns them not to drive or operate ma...

When Amaia was born last week, the paediatrician discharging her wanted me to have her hips checked as he suspected a minor problem . He wro...

One of the things newborns seem to be prone to is oral thrush. Obviously the problem with that is that it is easily transferred to the mothe...

As I said on 11-01-10, sleeping on my stomach is one of the pleasures I miss most when I am pregnant. The first night after having a baby I ...

I've been reading with curiosity in the media about the latest swine flu figures for Scotland. Apparently last week 21,500 people are es...

The Pudgeman woke up spotless despite the Scottish climate today. For the first time since February 2008, his face is spotfree. Of course I ...

Marcel fell downstairs at school on Wednesday. Between periods at school, he tried checking the time on his mobile phone (kids seem to think...

Now here's an interesting one... Anyone who has ever been pregnant knows the literature you get loves to bombard you with lists of food...

Sometimes people make up new rules and no one stops to ask why? No one has the courage to say to the rule-maker: this is utterly stupid , or...

After nearly 18 months of spot problems with Léon we went on holiday to Tuscany. The weather was great, sunny and generally not under 30C ...