Freddie’s sleep training
So, I finally took the plunge after a year of resisting and booked in a sleep consultant. I think I put it off for so long because I thought it would just fix itself over time, but after a year of no sleep for anyone and continuously getting up and down all night for that duration, Josh and I look […]
Invaluable advice on raising boys
The other day I went to a ‘BOYS BOYS BOYS’ talk by Maggie Dent and as you might remember me saying on my social media- it was life changing. I went home with a better understanding of my little men, I felt like I knew the answers to “why won’t you listen?!!!” and the next morning in my home, […]
The mum perspective
Last night Freddie cried non-stop as I was putting him to bed, he cried for almost two hours. This isn’t common for him to cry like this and it was really hard for me to work out what was wrong with him. I tried rocking him, I tried more milk, I tried singing to him, I tried talking to him, […]
parenting styles for first, second and third borns
I wanted to have a chat about the difference in parenting for me when it comes to parenting my first, second and third babies. We have all seen the comments, the memes and quotes about how mums wrap their first-born babies in cotton wool, are a tad more relaxed with the second and then the third baby ends up swaddled […]
Finding out my baby gender
I decided early on that I wanted my third baby to be a surprise. After trying all the ‘gender sway’ techniques to conceive a girl for several months (without conceiving once during this time) we decided to just stop, and just try for ‘a baby’, because, above all, we wanted three children, girl or boy. We conceived immediately that […]
Caesarean number 2
It has taken me just under four full weeks to write this blog post about my second caesarean, because of course I have a newborn and two other children to care for and secondly because I have had to deal with and get my head around exactly what I went through which was shock and anxiety. You wouldn’t know it […]
About Jess
Jess Dempsey is the founder of Australian fashion, motherhood and lifestyle blog, What Would Karl Do? Her love of mixing high end and high street fashion is reflected in her style she has been sharing with her readers for over 8 years. Jess is also a wife and mother of three gorgeous boys and gives her readers an honest insight into her busy motherhood journey.
