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The Un-Mother

Four years ago I entered a writing competition on the theme of motherhood, at the time my daughter was 5 months old, and had only…

Men can experiment with makeup and fashion – David Bowie portrait

Boys are taught from a young age that fashion and makeup are a girls domain, that it is taboo for them to want to experiment…

Inspiring boys to break the mould

It is very important to me that both my children grow up knowing that they do not have to change who they are, that they…

Raising a child gender free

I’ve been thinking about this case recently, where an eight month old has been issued a health card which does not mention their sex. The…

“That’s a boy thing”

My kids have reached that age. Now the infuriating conversations have started. “Boys do this, girls don’t” “That’s a girls toy” “Girls don’t like that”…

Inda Bayi – letting kids be kids

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Breastfeeding and Jamie Oliver

Let me just start this post by saying, if I actually manage to write this without it just turning into a string of expletives I’ll…

I told you so

This is going to be a slightly childish post, I’d apologise but I’m not really sorry. Some of you may have seen my previous posts…

Social Services vs. actual support Pt. 2

So earlier today I wrote a post about the problems we’d been having with social services, I’ve already got more to add to it. In…

Come Away With The Faeries

This Saturday just gone I ventured into a wonderland of natural beauty filled with fantasy creatures and colour. Well, maybe not the fantasy creatures.. more…

Guest Post: Guilty until proven healthy

This is a guest post written by my husband. – MoG The following is written not by a reactionary, or a devoted fan of a…

Sainsburys Tu for Children

I’ve spoken about my daughter before, mostly about her birth and time in special care. So I thought I’d do a more positive post, and…

Honesty, trust, mental health and health care professionals

Have had a less than positive experience recently with a local hospital, which is a shame because on the whole we’ve always had a lot…

One year on

Today is the 24th of January, a spectacularly uninteresting day to many I imagine. For me it was the start of a traumatic experience, an experience…

A 2014 recap: Puking, parenting, pain and feminism

It has been an interesting year, thought I’d go through it with some blog posts. Started the year puking, while technically this is a post…

World Prematurity Day: Bonding can be hard

Monday 17th November 2014 is World Prematurity Day, a day for talking about around 15 million babies born prematurely worldwide. My daughter is one of them, and…

Recommendation: Beautiful book by Lostmy.name

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Judging and motherhood

Think we all know that mothers (and some fathers) will get judged no matter what they do. That seems to be a given, and mothers…

Babies ARE boring – I agree with Lily Allen

As some of you may know I’ve recently had a baby (she is doing really well by the way), and my son has just turned two.…

Mothers’ Day – pain and joy

Mothers’ Day is a hard one for me, my own mother died 2 years ago. She died 3 weeks before my first child was born.…

Let Books Be Books – where’s the harm?

I was very lucky as a child to have a mother who adored books, and she passed this love of reading on to me. I…

The ISP Porn Filter or why you cannot have a Unicorn

After the government have gone to so much effort to pester ISP’s into creating a default filter in order to “protect children” from the evils…

“You like to buy us pink toys and everything else is for boys”

I assume you’ve seen the Goldieblox advert by now? If not, have a look, see what you think. First things first, I love the visuals…