Parenting Archives

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…

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…

Neglectful mother

I’m sorry, for those of you following me for plus size fashion and art, this is a departure. Some of you have followed me a…

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…

Guest post for World Prematurity Day: If you’re going through hell, keep going

“If you’re going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill.

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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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.…

Guest Post: Parents Not Welcome

This post is a Guest Post by my husband, giving his perspective on having a child in special care. – MoG For me I was…

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…