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Here are five TV programmes we’re watching, five years after everyone else…this post could also be called ‘thank goodness for catch-up TV when you’re a parent…’ As as result of all of this, there are many TV programmes we didn’t watch when they were first released or first shown on TV, those times when everyone was talking about their brilliance (My brother is still incandescent with me for never having watched Stranger Things – I know! ). However, thanks to the joys of technology we can happily watch them now, all these years after, and way behind the times, Here are five things we’re watching, five years behind everyone else: Fleabag: OK, so I only just started watching this when series 2 started recently, mainly because everyone was talking about it. Catch-up on Netflix Isn’t the beauty of being behind is that you can a) binge watch, and don’t have to wait till next week, and also b) have time to form opinions, way after everyone’s chatted about it on Twitter?

The Baby Club, which is brilliant, but here’s what it gets wrong about baby clubs… , The Baby Club is a TV-friendly version of a baby activity session for children under 14 months and their parents and carers. And as a real life graduate of many, many baby clubs, I couldn’t help but notice that there’s an awful lot that happens in real life baby clubs that probably wouldn’t make it to TV. The deeply surreal experience of waving a baby around or waving things in their face, singing loudly in public when you’re not even drunk while having sick in your hair and milk on your top and being beyond caring.

Because like breastfeeding, extended breastfeeding and babywearing, co-sleeping is one of those types of attachment parenting techniques that seen all 70s earth mothery and for other people, the 70s earth mothery types, but are the type of thing you might end up doing, probably accidentally, for the simple reason that these things work, for your family. Bringing new meaning to the term ‘baby yoga.’ Everyone gets more sleep when you co-sleep: Feet in the face, wriggling toddlers, everyone fighting for space, how do you get more sleep? ! But the very thought of getting out of my lovely warm bed in the very small hours, scooping up my newly wakened four-year-old, wedging both of us uncomfortably into her small-sized bed, staying until she falls asleep and I inevitably do too, waking up with a bad back and neck and a permanently bad mood, is exhausting. Most people will probably co-sleep, either openly or secretly: While ‘co-sleeping’ might be a loaded term, I bet if if you asked most parents if their child ever slept in their bed, then they would say yes.

I’ve been trying out the Lily Cup One (which I was sent as a gift) on a mission to find out if menstrual cups are the one…period chat incoming… Do you use a menstrual cup / period cup? I’ve been trying the Lily Cup One from Intimina, which is smaller than your average period cup, bright pink and ideal as a starter period cup. the Lily Cup One is a more petite period cup, with a double rim that aims to be leak-proof, and there’s also a removal loop at the bottom, instead of the long stem that some menstrual cups have.