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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Kicks Count is one amazing charity! Its main aim is to raise awareness about baby [...]
Yesterday I joined 100k women, men and children in London – and millions around the [...]
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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It’s not hard to get me talking, especially on the subjects of the business and [...]
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’ve never been good with change. As kids we used to spend lots of time [...]
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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 was national offers day for primary school places on Thursday last week. We’d looked [...]
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A night in a hotel used to mean one thing and it wasn’t how quickly [...]
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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 this is Christmas. A joyful time of year when we see all our family [...]
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