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Steph is the founder here at Don’t Buy Her Flowers, and gives an honest account [...]
James @storiesaboutautism is a father of two boys, Jude and Tommy. Both boys are autistic [...]
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We reached out a few weeks ago to ask Robert @this_father_life if he would like [...]
Father’s Day can be a challenging time for lots of people. For Lorna Harris @lornamedia [...]
We don’t want to be the bearer of bad news but this weekend the clocks [...]
Jen Reid, founder of charity Teddy’s Wish along with husband Chris, contacted us about creating [...]
Tamu is the founder of Three Sixty and her #onemumswish is thoughtful and a different [...]
Emma Conway @brummymummyof2 is one of the first people that Steph met when she started blogging [...]
Isma describes herself as a cake eater, biscuit baker, kebab lover and comedy maker. We [...]
Steph is the founder here at Don’t Buy Her Flowers, mum of three, wife to [...]
Nina describes herself as ‘The Disabled Step-Mum you never knew you needed’ and is a [...]
Don’t Buy Her Flowers has recently partnered up with the charity First Days, who work to reduce [...]
Starting with our first Mother’s Day in 2015, this has become the busiest time of [...]
Having children made me obsessed with sleep. As the saying goes, you don’t know what [...]
The work that carers do is often hidden away and poorly understood by many of [...]
I was recently in Homebase on a Sunday morning with my two year old. It’s [...]
Valentine’s Day is just round the corner and it’s likely for some of us (most [...]
I’d forgotten how utterly stupid people could be when you’re pregnant, until I was expecting [...]
Stories of cancer are often a tale of two sides – Triumph or Tragedy. Life [...]
Last week, Clinical Psychologist Dr Emma Svanberg and I had a chat on Instagram LIVE, [...]
When I became a father for the first time in July 2014, I didn’t have [...]
When I became a dad, they made me pretend to be a surgeon. Despite my [...]
For a very long time I wasn’t really interested in becoming a dad, I didn’t [...]
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…I had it easy. I’m not even going to lie and say it was hard [...]
…my world was a different place. “Cliché”, I know. Yet true all the same. I wasn’t [...]
When you’re pregnant when do you become a Mother? I can only imagine it is [...]
During my three years as a mother I have never used google so much in [...]
…I became a mother to a child with a life-threatening heart condition, multiple co-morbidities and [...]
*Trigger warning: this post contains references to infant and pregnancy loss* …is a sentence that [...]
‘…that very first moment, I didn’t feel the tidal wave of warmth, love and protection [...]
…I realised that my body was bloody incredible. The same body that I had spent [...]
It all got a bit much this week. Balls were dropping, plates were smashing. My [...]
I was giddy with excitement when I met Doug. This glorious man made me laugh, [...]
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On all the kids’ birthdays I find myself full of reflection, my mind playing a [...]
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The idea for Don’t Buy Her Flowers came after I had Buster, my first baby, [...]
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The day I tried to kill myself and ran away, I wrote a list on [...]
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When I became a mother for the first time, I learned that I didn’t know [...]
When I became a mother my life simultaneously came crashing down and became more complete [...]
I’ll be frank, motherhood wasn’t in my plans. As the eldest to two younger siblings [...]
I was never scared about being a mother, only that I wouldn’t be. There’s a [...]
When we were expecting our baby, I remember feeling so full of nerves and anticipation [...]
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When I was growing up, I wasn’t really set on many things. I never had [...]
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I don’t remember being given my baby to hold immediately after he was born – I was knocked out [...]
I didn’t think much about my own mum’s role as a mother when I had [...]
It’s fair to say that Doug wasn’t 100% keen on the idea of having a [...]
One afternoon a few weeks after I had Buster, my first baby, I called my [...]
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The thing with pregnancy is, much like birth and having a newborn, you forget what [...]
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I’ve written before about my experience of cancer. My husband Doug was diagnosed aged 30 [...]
Last week Digital Mums launched a campaign calling to ‘Clean up the F-Word’ and stop [...]
Despite the fact I run a gift business – I’ve made a job out of [...]
