Sketch of iguanodon towering over baby in pushchair

Sketch of me and baby suffering from covid - I have nightsweats and baby will only sleep lying on my chest

Sketches of attempting to amuse baby while we both have covid: bubbles, piano lessons, baking, staring at my phone

Sketches of things baby likes: still towel rail, the song yellow submarine, computer thumbnails

That time when both I and the baby had covid

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Sketch of Oxford botanical gardens and Magdalen colleg tower in autumn

Sketch of baby looking adorably at the mobile, which he likes more than me

Sketches of a busy and pleasant day - strictly, walk, hoovering, pasta bake, baby asleep with gorilla on his face

sketch of baby on mat with this toys, enduring his first cold

Sketchbook from October 2022: botanical gardens, mobile, a nice day, and the baby's first cold (of many!)
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Sketch of sleeping baby - his hand resting on toy gorilla in a wooly sweater

Sketches of "the S. and mummy show", in which I narrate cooking, nappy changing, and (best of all) laundry to an enthusiastic baby

More of baby's first friends, including windows, bells, the sky, my hair; also baby's first enemy: shadows (or the ghosts residing in them)

Sketches of an awake baby reading a cloth book about sheep and a sleepy cross baby in a sleeping bag

More baby sketchbook diaries (from Autumn 2022)

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Sketch of giving the baby his first bath - he is nonplussed

Sketch of the baby's first friends: my breasts, towel rail, the other baby who lives in my phone, my water bottle, the picture of a whale

Sketches of doing nothing much with a small baby, e.g. poking him to make sure he's awake, endless laundry, watching a documentary about the queen's hats

Sketches of the baby's first severe screaming fit and my failed attempts to console him for 3 hours

Sketchbook diary: baby's first bath/friends/screaming fit

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Black and white sketches of new baby

Sketches of new-baby-related disasters: leaking catheter, my mum spectacularly breaking the washing machine, pulling down curtain rail during midwife visit

Sketches of new baby feeding, hiccupping, sleeping holding my hand + some terrible puns: "how's your new baby? - he sucks"; "how am I doing as a new mum? - I rock"

Sketch: neverending cycle of feeding and changing new baby

Sketchbook diary: back when the baby was extremely new

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