Caren Barry

Photographer + Writer + Surface Designer

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  • :: who else has watched the tv series Grantchester? I recently started watching after years of being recommended it by friends and felt especially compelled to after James and I visited with a little newborn Emilia 💛 I must admit I am finding it quite bizarre recognising so many of the places being featured! . During Emilia’s first few weeks and months, I rather quickly worked my way through all of my favourite programmes on Netflix and catch up tv... seriously there we SO many series’ saved on my lists that I’ve now ticked off 🙊 . Of course now that Emilia is no longer such a sleepy newborn I don’t have the time for as much tv, but I do love a good drama and I’d love to know what your favourite programmes are at the moment. So please, send your recommendations my way! 😊
  • :: my sweet little girl. Her smiles, giggles and beautiful blue eyes melt my heart daily. 🧡 . Last night Emilia graced me with 7 hours of unbroken sleep - only her second stretch of solid sleep since birth. I’m normally awake for twice nightly feeds, so this felt like such a treat! . I’ve been trying my hardest to make sure she gets at least 4 hours of nap time during the day since she recently dropped one of her naps, and I *think* we’re slowly getting into a better routine, bedtime especially. So I’m curious... what are your nap-time/bedtime routines like? . #emiliahannarose #emiliahannarosemilestones
  • :: wintry walks, making memories with my little love ✨ . Emilia has taken to only napping in the sling (this beautiful linen ring sling is from @mezayababysling). I’ll be honest and say that it’s becoming increasingly more challenging for me, physically – I still feel like my postpartum recovery has been quite slow and I’ve become distinctly aware of my lacking core strength... but this is all temporary and one day she’ll no longer need these sling naps. So I’m embracing this wonderful phase and gosh how I really love these extra moments where I get to hold her close to me. ❤️
  • :: Emilia’s nursery. A lot has changed in this space since I first took this photo eight months ago... I completely switched around the furniture (much to James’s dismay as there are two solid oak chest of drawers that needed moving! 😆🙈) and instead chose this spot to become home to THE comfiest armchair from @loafhome. It’s where I often nurse Emilia and where we read her stories before bedtime too - it quickly became my favourite piece of furniture for those reasons alone. . I’ve always had a passion for interior design and it’s far more than just a hobby for me, so I’ve been wondering, if I were to share a tour of this room and my ‘nesting’ process on my blog... would this be something that you’d be interested in reading? . I haven’t published anything since shortly before our house move and before I became pregnant and so now I have ‘the fear’ of facing it all... especially now that my content will naturally show the shift in which my life has taken. I’m also still writing my birth story and I intend to publish on my blog – although I never anticipated it would take me almost 6 months to finish! It’s so very personal, but I’m really looking forward to sharing it with you all when the time is ‘right’ for me to be that vulnerable. 💛
  • :: this girl 🧡 becoming her mama is by far my greatest achievement of 2018. A year filled with so many challenges, transitions, growth and overwhelming love. . I feel incredibly blessed to have this girl in my life. I’ll always be so thankful she made me a mother and for how much she has taught me already. Here’s to another year full of many more firsts and those simple everyday moments together that make it all so special. 💫 . Happy new year you lovely lot – I also want to say how much your friendship, kindness and support means to me! Forever grateful. . . Oh and these photos may be super grainy... moody autumnal walks in the woods will do that, but they are still some of my most treasured captures of us.
  • :: my little sleeping love. 💛 . A special moment from yesterday that I’m so happy I was able to quickly capture... this was the first time she learned how to soothe herself to sleep without any help from her mama. ✨ I couldn’t be any prouder of this sweet girl. #emiliahannarose
  • :: my happy little girl 😍 so full of joy and treats her mama and papa to the sweetest, gummiest smiles always with a twinkle in her eyes. She loves her play gym, chewing her favourite rattles and is a determined little mover – she’ll roll everywhere given the chance, especially out from her bedside cot and into our bed for milky snuggles with her mama 💔 . I’m still behind in posting these monthly photos of Emilia, in part because it has taken me almost 4 months to find my rhythm with motherhood... Life has taken on a completely unpredictable pace, where my days are exhausting (I never expected motherhood to be easy) and often challenging. But to balance that, they have been the happiest and most fulfilling, and I know I will look back on these; the start of my motherhood journey, as the best days of my life. ❤️ #emiliahannarose #emiliahannarosemilestones
  • :: decided to refresh my wardrobe by digging out my winter knitwear! It’s December and I’m actually still finding the weather a little too mild to wear a lot of my knits, but I’m struggling with my post-pregnancy wardrobe and couldn’t wait any longer... plus who else loves cosy, chunky knitted jumpers more than chocolate?! 😂 . I have been wearing the same 5 items of clothing on rotation since Emilia’s birth – just two skirts, two tops and one dress... partly because pre pregnancy I pretty much lived in dresses and partly because the idea of shopping at the moment, with my post-pregnancy body and the busy, festive season now upon us just sounds far too stressful. With the exception of some knitted dresses (which really don’t allow for easy or dignified breastfeeding 🙈), having a few of my favourite pieces of knitwear back that I haven’t worn since around this time last year means I can postpone that shopping trip until the new year at least! 🙌🏼😆

 

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