Being a parent is a role that comes with a lot of 'on-the-job' learning, and there's a whole host of things you have no idea how to deal with until they come up. Everyone's parenting experience is different, but it can be difficult to get others to understand that. I've written a couple of blogs now on experiences I've had as a Mum and I've shared them amongst others in order to raise some...
I've made no secret that I got pissed off with people making comment on my pregnancy - and hell, I only had a few weeks for them to chat shit through! This is a collection of all the stupid comments made to me and my Instagram Followers during our pregnancies. Some are light-hearted, some are funny, some are misguided, some are cruel. Some of these I've probably said myself; but all I'll...
"Well, we always did it like that... and my kids turned out OK" The second you tell people you’re pregnant, or have a visible baby bump, it seems like everyone loves to give you advice on pregnancy and parenting; often unsolicited. My finding out that I was pregnant so late meant that I was pretty open-minded to any advice shared with me – after all, I knew nothing about babies and felt...
I don’t know why, given the unusual circumstances around my pregnancy, I had assumed that giving birth to my baby would be straight-forward. My life just doesn’t seem to work like that. Thankfully, I can report back now that I found giving birth the most empowering and important experience of my life, and I still carry a huge sense of achievement for having managed it. It wasn’t as...
Being told that you’re pregnant when you weren’t expecting it will always be a huge shock. Being told you’re pregnant when you weren’t really ever planning on it will always be a huge shock. But being told you’re SIX MONTHS pregnant when you were told two days prior by a doctor that you definitely weren’t? Yeah. That’ll shit you up, alright. I often get told by people that they don’t believe me...