Watching my two year old son pottering around the back garden with his dad, I realise how life has a funny way of working out – and that I’m pretty lucky. While it’s true I’ve found parenting mentally challenging, I’d be crazy for taking what […]
AD / THIS POST IS COMMISSIONED BY KALMS LAVENDER. ALL WORDING & OPINION EXPRESSED IS MY OWN, NOT OF THE BRAND. Anxiety is something we can all experience at one time or another. It’s actually pretty normal, but sometimes, especially when life gets challenging, persistent […]
AD / THIS POST IS COMMISSIONED BY SIMPLY SWIM. ALL WORDING & OPINION EXPRESSED IS MY OWN, NOT OF THE BRAND. Getting fit after having a baby is a promise most of us new mums make. I was no different. After a tough pregnancy managing […]
[ AD / THIS POST CONTAINS PR GIFTED PRODUCT ] Before I became a mum, “me time” was plentiful. I had long hot baths with candles and music. I had pyjama days at my leisure and read magazines with a hot cup of tea. And […]
Let’s be honest, there’s nothing wonderful about being on your period. Unless you’ve been hoping for a non-pregnancy situation (where you’d probably be quite happy about getting your period), that time of the month can just mean a whole lot of inconvenience, pain and expense. […]
[TRIGGER WARNING] I don’t wake up thinking, “How can I end my life today?” I don’t hate my life. In fact, I’m very happy. I love being a mum, being married, living the middle life. But time and time again I catch myself in my […]
Getting pregnant with Reuben was easy. After just two months trying to conceive I got my positive. Baby making, it appeared, wasn’t hard work. But now I know I was just lucky; now we’re trying for baby number two, it’s of course a different […]
Back before my child was even born I knew chronic pain would make motherhood tricky for me. Chronic illness is a fact of life for me – I’ve had fibromyalgia for over a decade and joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS) since my teens – so I […]
For as long as I’ve been a mother I’ve had anxiety. To me, motherhood and anxiety are one and I don’t see a horizon on this tumultuous sea of worry. People love to tell you that anxiety comes with being a parent. Mums and dads […]
If pregnancy doesn’t come with enough reasons to worry the whole nine months long, it turns out there’s another one to add to the list. Your midwife has probably never mentioned it, the NHS doesn’t routinely test you for it, but it’s one of the […]
After a tense few months of anxiety and nausea, earlier this week I was finally able to share some exciting news – I’m pregnant! If you’ve been following the blog for a while you’ll know why I’d be nervous this time around, when a year […]
Trying for a baby is mental. Literally. I thought it was easy the first time. Came off the pill and wham bam, the following month I was pregnant. Of course I ended up miscarrying, and now it’s all back to round one again, but this […]
