In Defence Of The Mummy Blogger
I used to be a “cool” blogger, running a very open blog about my life. I ranked highly on technorati, I woke up every morning to an inbox full of comments and I entered a “Babes Of Blogland” competition and, I’ll admit, did fairly well for myself.
Then I spawned.
When I announced that I was pregnant on my blog I was very positive about it, of course this wouldn’t change the subject matter, I’d still be writing reviews of all the movies I’ve been to see lately, I’d still be posting regular photos of me (complete with superb “MySpace Angles” and high contrast) and of course there would still be plenty of gory details about my love life. My biggest fear was ending up as one of those women who had nothing better to do that write about their child’s bowel movements, a fear of becoming a dreaded “Mummy Blogger”, I told my readers not to fear, that would never happen to me!
Lets just say, that didn’t go to plan, as I progressed in my pregnancy I wanted to write more about what I was going through, and knew that my audience of twenty-something single men couldn’t care less about how my foetus was currently hiccuping and that my internet “fame” would probably suffer if I was to start discussing the less than attractive side effects of pregnancy, not wanting to disappoint anyone I just slowly stopped blogging. I started up a little blog, not even self hosted, told my family about it and wrote about baking, decorating for Christmas and just how badly I was waddling at seven months pregnant. It was almost liberating, I stopped caring about comments – I think I averaged about one a fortnight when I started out, I wrote freely about everything I was going through, and when my son was born I officially stepped into the world of mummy blogging.
I don’t have the fabulous technorati ranking anymore, I have a select following of readers of whom I think my husband is the only male in there, I have been to the cinema three times in the last two years so there are no more movie reviews and I think my love life has similar statistics so no more writing about that. I’m officially a lame “Mummy Blogger”, but I am happy, there’s no expectations, no one moans that I haven’t posted for a couple of days, because there just isn’t enough people to miss me, and best of all I have a wonderful detailed history of the first years of my son’s life, there’s no flicking through baby books any more, I can tell you the day he walked, and his first words just by looking through my archives and finding the video clips posted to celebrate the occasion. No longer am I fearful of the stigma attached to being a parent blogger, I revel in my lameness and don’t even long for the bygone days of Interweb fame.
And at least I’m not a Cat Blogger 
What’s wrong with being a Cat Blogger?
Welcome to the life changes that having a baby brings! So life has changed and so will your audience as you redevelop yourself as a Mummy Blogger. They just have to know you exist first!
You’ll find lots of Mummy forums online – great places for a new audience!
Mummy blogger here and proud of it.
Although I’m wondering if I’m the only one wishing for a link to your old blog
You’re not Marita
I’m probably categorised as a Mummy Blogger, despite the fact I rarely mention my kids on the blog. I think simply being a stay-at-home parent, regardless of your blogs content qualifies you as a Mummy Bloger.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
I would also love to see the link to Fern’s old blog too!
I’m a part mummy blogger part egomaniacal self-absorbed web tart. But you can label my stuff any way you like.
I am a proud mummy blogger too and I often look back through my blog to capture forgotten memories.
It is fun and funnier reading other parents adventures and trials – so rock on all Mummy bloggers.Yes what about that link ?
Nothing lame at all about being a parent or mummy blogger. Just think of the scope of audience you have now. You have the chance to offer your journey as a first time mother to other soon to be first time mothers.
I wish blogs, well, the internet actually, were around when I had my first child. It was such a lonely time.
Having a blog, or being able to read others would have helped the days and mostly 2am feeds, not so lonely.
Be proud!!
The whole “Mummy blogger” genre is a big thing on the internet now days. I am impressed by the sheer number of mothers who are blogging. And, via the power of YouTube, I’ve not only seen pictures of the kids of friends from all around the world… but I’ve seen the birth of one in particular happen before my eyes. (Nice, but gorey. Yeah okay I’m a twenty-something male. hahaha)
There are plenty of yummy mummy bloggers out here in bloggerland!