Category Archives: Motherhood

Talking Overwhelm and Rage #onthecouch

Last week, Clinical Psychologist Dr Emma Svanberg and I had a chat on Instagram LIVE, [...]

Remi Sadé ‘When I became a mother…’

…my world was a different place. “Cliché”, I know. Yet true all the same. I wasn’t [...]

Rosie Ramsey ‘When I became a mother…’

During my three years as a mother I have never used google so much in [...]

Kaytee Jones ‘When I became a mother…’

…I became a mother to a child with a life-threatening heart condition, multiple co-morbidities and [...]

Georgina Hayden ‘When I became a mother…’

*Trigger warning: this post contains references to infant and pregnancy loss* …is a sentence that [...]

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Liv Thorne ‘When I became a mother…’

‘…that very first moment, I didn’t feel the tidal wave of warmth, love and protection [...]

Jess Jones ‘When I became a mother…’

…I realised that my body was bloody incredible. The same body that I had spent [...]

The Overwhelm

It all got a bit much this week. Balls were dropping, plates were smashing. My [...]

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Relationships are hard

I was giddy with excitement when I met Doug. This glorious man made me laugh, [...]

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The First Year of Motherhood

On all the kids’ birthdays I find myself full of reflection, my mind playing a [...]

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When I became a mother…lost and found

The day I tried to kill myself and ran away, I wrote a list on [...]

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Nicola Washington ‘When I became a mother…’

When I became a mother for the first time, I learned that I didn’t know [...]

Mia Vaughan ‘When I became a mother…’

When I became a mother my life simultaneously came crashing down and became more complete [...]

Candice Brathwaite ‘When I became a mother…’

I’ll be frank, motherhood wasn’t in my plans. As the eldest to two younger siblings [...]

Poppy Dinsey ‘When I became a mother…’

I was never scared about being a mother, only that I wouldn’t be. There’s a [...]

Elle Wright ‘When I became a mother…’

When we were expecting our baby, I remember feeling so full of nerves and anticipation [...]

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Susie Verrill ‘When I became a mother…’

When I was growing up, I wasn’t really set on many things. I never had [...]

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Helen Earley ‘When I became a mother…’

I don’t remember being given my baby to hold immediately after he was born – I was knocked out [...]

Steph Douglas ‘When I became a mother…’

I didn’t think much about my own mum’s role as a mother when I had [...]

Just the two of us

It’s fair to say that Doug wasn’t 100% keen on the idea of having a [...]

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Pulling up the drawbridge

One afternoon a few weeks after I had Buster, my first baby, I called my [...]

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What To Expect When You’re Expecting

The thing with pregnancy is, much like birth and having a newborn, you forget what [...]

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The F Word

Last week Digital Mums launched a campaign calling to ‘Clean up the F-Word’ and stop [...]

Scummy Mummies podcast: Talking new mum gifts, business and daftness

I recently went on the Scummy Mummies podcast, and if you haven’t listened to this [...]

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It’s good to talk

I was reading the Metro on the train yesterday, and saw an article with Adele [...]

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Switching off

I’d love to say that last week I took an intentional break from the internet, [...]

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What do you wish you could tell yourself as a new mum?

Hindsight is indeed a wonderful thing. I can look back at the time after both [...]

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With this ring, I give you my dregs

I always thought I’d be one of those women that would call my husband a [...]

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Just a mum?

5th December was Small Business Saturday, a day to celebrate the 5 million small businesses [...]

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What I wish I’d known before I became a parent

I feel a bit weird writing this as I know I am nowhere near ‘knowing’ [...]

Light at the end of the tunnel

When my babies were smaller I often looked to women a few years further down [...]

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Sisterhood – one year on

It’s almost one year since I started this blog. My first post set out that [...]

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The Public Meltdown

This week there was a story in the press about a stranger in his 50s [...]

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Don’t Buy Her Flowers

So here we are. The Sisterhood (and all that) blog has a new home, and [...]

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What do I ‘do’ now?

If someone had suggested before I had kids that I might feel differently about my [...]

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The Post-Baby Comeback

During my first pregnancy, in those moments when I wasn’t tired, I found myself plotting [...]

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Are you beach ready?

In the run up to summer, it can be hard to avoid the constant reminder [...]

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#7daysofreality

This post – proposing #7daysofreality – is over on The Telegraph’s ‘Mother Tongue’ site here [...]

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Holidays or hellidays?

Nothing demonstrates with quite such clarity the difference in your world, and that you are [...]

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A letter to a new mum

If a friend has previously holidayed somewhere you’ve booked to go to, you’d fully expect [...]

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When new mums get angry

When you’re pregnant, advice is pointed at you from every direction and the phrase ‘things [...]

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A Mother’s Day Resolution

Mother’s Day – one of the annual events where we hope to get a lie [...]

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The Post-Baby Fog

My experience of the emotions that come post-baby have left me with the view that [...]

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Could domestic chores be the new foreplay?

We’re often led to believe that women are very complicated creatures. We might get huffy [...]

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