Category: Baby

  • 5 toys that my toddler actually plays with

    My toddler is one of those who has so many toys but barely plays with them. I do need to reorganise their toys so that they get rotated and therefore retain a bit of novelty, but unfortunately I don’t have the physical nor mental bandwidth to get to that yet, so right now it’s a…

  • 5 video games I’d play with my kid when they’re older

    As an avid gamer, I really look forward to my baby growing up so that I can play video games with them and they can sit still instead of running around the place messing it up… Here are 5 games that I wish that I could play with my little one right now (not in…

  • Going on a road trip with a baby

    For the Easter long weekend we did our first road trip with our baby away from the city to visit family and it was hard!  We had the following 3 major challenges that were unique to having a baby with us.  On our way there we had to take a break, as it was daylight…

  • Gaming and cat naps

    Gaming with a serial catnapper has been hard, and I mean console or PC gaming, not mobile gaming (mobile being cell phone for you Americans). At present I can only really play video games without interruption when my little one is sleeping through the night or when my husband is looking after them. However this…

  • My breastfeeding journey so far

    I didn’t know how I wanted my baby to be fed. I knew breastfeeding was best but I didn’t know how hard it would be. My breastfeeding journey definitely started off rocky. After my caesarian section I was wheeled out of the operating theatre and greeted by my husband and my newborn, a medical staff…

  • How I freed myself from gacha games

    I have a confession to make – I used to be addicted to gacha games. The keywords are “used to”. I got into gacha games when Final Fantasy Brave Exvius began growing, and that was when my spending started to get out of control. I’d do pull battles with other players in the community and…

  • Birth trauma made me not want to play games for awhile

    After I gave birth there was a period of time when I just didn’t have the motivation to play video games. Strange, isn’t it? I’m someone who’s played video games for all of my life, so how could I have lost my passion for video games suddenly? Well, I was actually traumatised by the last…