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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…

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…

Mental health and male privilege

This tweet popped up on my timeline, I was busy at the time, so I didn’t see the context or know about any twitter storm.…

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…

“I am a poser and I don’t care, I like to make people stare”

A slightly silly start to this blog post, but I do love this song and it is kind of what I wanted to talk about.…

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…

A mother who is still not a mother

Some of you may not have read my previous post on this, if you haven’t then it’s probably best you do so you understand the…

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.…

When is a mother not a mother?

Nearly two years ago I was rushed into theatre, given a powerful epidural and had my first child pulled out of me with what appears…

Am I a “mummy blogger”?

This blog has been sat empty for a while, I keep meaning to post, but then I never know what to start with. So the…