The milk jugs

Being a parent for whole 10 months has been an amazing time. My little one is an excellent crawler, makes sounds, points, and dances to music, and gives wet kisses and etc. I still breastfeed. But the breastfeeding has in a very strange way become for others‘ Oh you still breastfeed?’ ‘Is he not only on solids?’

In other words, it made some eye-browns go up. I found it very strange.

One big factor for me is who are these people to question it, as I personally would not question or judge openly. I might have an opinion but I would never make another individual feel bad about something so healthy for a growing baby.

I came across this mother who were breastfeeding her daughter who was 2 years old.

The daughter even said nipple in the middle of a playground, and the mother said its MILK TIME. Is that wired?

I am being very honest, I can’t decide BUT I really wanted to ask her? Do you not miss your breast? She had an amazing figure, annoyingly perfect, no baby weight on it or any extras. She was a yoga instructor, of course. I would have loved to ask her several questions like:

Do you miss your breast?

Are you still in maternity bras?

Are you always comfy?

How does your partner feel about these milk jugs?

Of course being not so blunt I did not ask her.

I bet as you are reading these lines you surely are thinking a bit now. Just to answer one question, Yes, your sex life will change a bit after giving birth.

The medical people advice to wait 6 weeks after birth and a bit longer if you had a Caesarean section. It depends on what type of male you have. The one who is fine with the milk or the one who is not.

So after searching info about what happens to the breast after breastfeeding I came across this quote “after pregnancy you will never get your normal breasts back. it's just a fact of life ladies.”

Nice to read =NOT

Some women go under the knife as they have felt that their breast has gone smaller and lost their firmness after having children. I personally feel that the subject of the breast LOOk supposed to have the “perky look”, the nipple facing up, and more tissue below the nipple than above.

I do not regret breastfeeding, absolutely not. I am however not sure when to stop.

I will go for a whole year, and then I guess I will wait and see how they will bounce back. 

Will they go back to what they used to be? Lets hope so. 

I'm Autumn

Bye Summer

Swimming for free! 3 Times at La Fitness.

Tell me if I’m wrong?!

Once you had a baby, you hope you get in to your old jeans, your stomach was rock hard (harder then now anyway), and your entire wardrobe still fit you. If you happen to be one of these, ME NO LIKE YOU!

I doubt it!

My biggest wonder is, how on earth does these Crouch End mums slim down after giving birth?

Seriously it used to bug me, seeing these slimed mums with buggies, where the baby is like newborn, looking slim. Now I ignore each and everyone of them.

Yesterday coming back home from the YMCA gym, I saw a lot of female running around on the streets of Crouch End in the dark.So where they these mums I ignore? Dislike them even more as I hate running, but doing it in the dark, come on?

I love swimming, and I really wished I could do it so more often. Be as light as butterfly and swim. Anyone who had a baby, swimming is really good for your whole body, getting toned wise, but also for the sake of getting back your strength. 

 

Obviously exercising while pregnant has many benefits. Not only can it help you be more comfortable and flexible during pregnancy, but it can help you regain your pre-pregnancy body back faster after having your baby. Even if you weren't particularly fit before getting pregnant, you can still begin a fitness regimen in early pregnancy that keeps you in good shape for your health and the health of your baby.

I believe if I combine: swimming, Pilates, and cycling I would get better, and if my other half stops buying frozen meals. They are high in everything that is bad for you body! I should really start drinking hot water with lemon every morning, (I get so bored of doing same thing, same with food and drinks) get that metabolism going.

For the information I got a very annoying disc that is touching on a very important nerve, the sciatic nerve.

Anyone who is planning to have a baby and yoga, do Pilates!You will thank me,

When your pelvic bones have not been so crushed by the birth, and you don’t suffer from back pain during and after pregnancy. 

 I tried Joan’s Pilates class at Virgin Active gym. I liked her, she was amusing and the choice of music got me on board. Old French music from the 30s, loved it. For her age, wow, what a body! She had an 11-year-old grand daughter. Obviously Pilates isn’t just bullshit. I liked the stretch the movements were giving to me, some movement triggered the nerve a bit more, and because of that I did not performed, as I wanted. I think I would prefer being in a smaller group, and why on earth is getting a healthier you so expensive? 

Park road Leisure Centre, not on my top list. I found the place “SNUSKIGT” there’s no perfect English translation for that word.

 Last time I was there I forgot me flip flop, and every step I took on those “usch” tiles I thought to myself I bet I will get warts. It needs proper clean up, exchange the miserable staff with more service and outgoing staff. I really wished the Centre, was as amazing as the Wentworth Leisure centre up in Hexham, New Castle. I loved it.

If you happen to be a bit like me, guess what?

LA FITNESS up in Muswell Hill gives a way 3-day gym membership. 

Photographing enough?

We all know the year is 2011. Let us not get confused about the year, or what century we living in, never forget the world we live in.

I love children. I love photographing children, especially the cheeky ones. I love the “uniqness” that magically appears in a photograph. I also prefer the word photograph then the words: picture, image. The cling of the word sounds so, not important and boring. The phrase photograph brings something stronger, it is more important; the person in the photographs will somehow be related to a different era, right?

 

I am strongly against children images on the Internet; really I am kind of against all private pictures. Why do some feel the need of displaying and sharing their private family album/life on the World Wide Web?

Pictures have always been a passion of mine, photographing, developing in the “old school” darkroom, enhancing them to be more glamour’s in Photoshop and I love creating my own photo/scrap book albums. I love photographing children. I can’t decide if I prefer in a studio or outside, but if outside I love the feeling the photographs gets when photographing at sunset. Or 9 o’clock light in the morning.

Yesterday I walked in to Oxfam bookshop in Crouch End- Great bargain bookshop. I stumbled (I love the world stumble) on Marcus Adams. A child photographer, who created a unique record of two generations of the royal children between 1926 and 1956. Mr Adams presented a fresh, natural and vibrant view of the royalty. A massive change from the traditional formal portraiture. 

If someone fancied that type of style I would only recommend photographer Mr Yuval Hen. I think so far he is the only one on the market today that brings that "old"era out in his photographs.Some of them are mixed with sinister, love feeling. You will have to look for yourself to understand.

Looking at today’s typical pictures if children, its often people are hungry for the vintage styles: Lomo ( cross-processing effect), Diana (dreamy effect), classic vignetting. Me, personally I love black and white. I found them more classical to have in a picture frame within a border. Photographs have to have border, my opinion, if not, what’s the point of framing the picture? I do love bang on with colours in photographs, like this one below that I photographed 2 weeks ago.

So it’s 2011, and it will never stay 2011 forever, sadly. So are you photographing your  “lovy”/ “lovies” enough?

Photographs, is captured moment, forever a memory. What better then decorating you home with moments. Moments taking up space to remind you of that “click”. 

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