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We don’t want to be the bearer of bad news but this weekend the clocks [...]
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 [...]
Having children made me obsessed with sleep. As the saying goes, you don’t know what [...]
I’d forgotten how utterly stupid people could be when you’re pregnant, until I was expecting [...]
Last week, Clinical Psychologist Dr Emma Svanberg and I had a chat on Instagram LIVE, [...]
…my world was a different place. “Cliché”, I know. Yet true all the same. I wasn’t [...]
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 [...]
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‘…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 [...]
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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 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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Last week Digital Mums launched a campaign calling to ‘Clean up the F-Word’ and stop [...]
I recently went on the Scummy Mummies podcast, and if you haven’t listened to this [...]
I was reading the Metro on the train yesterday, and saw an article with Adele [...]
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I’d love to say that last week I took an intentional break from the internet, [...]
Hindsight is indeed a wonderful thing. I can look back at the time after both [...]
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I always thought I’d be one of those women that would call my husband a [...]
5th December was Small Business Saturday, a day to celebrate the 5 million small businesses [...]
I feel a bit weird writing this as I know I am nowhere near ‘knowing’ [...]
When my babies were smaller I often looked to women a few years further down [...]
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It’s almost one year since I started this blog. My first post set out that [...]
This week there was a story in the press about a stranger in his 50s [...]
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So here we are. The Sisterhood (and all that) blog has a new home, and [...]
If someone had suggested before I had kids that I might feel differently about my [...]
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During my first pregnancy, in those moments when I wasn’t tired, I found myself plotting [...]
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In the run up to summer, it can be hard to avoid the constant reminder [...]
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This post – proposing #7daysofreality – is over on The Telegraph’s ‘Mother Tongue’ site here [...]
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Nothing demonstrates with quite such clarity the difference in your world, and that you are [...]
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If a friend has previously holidayed somewhere you’ve booked to go to, you’d fully expect [...]
When you’re pregnant, advice is pointed at you from every direction and the phrase ‘things [...]
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Mother’s Day – one of the annual events where we hope to get a lie [...]
My experience of the emotions that come post-baby have left me with the view that [...]
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