Sharing my new normal type of motherhood
Burnout Burnout is officially a recognized by the World Health Organization as a health issue and mothers around the world released a collective ‘DUH!”. Working as a youth counsellor and lecturer, I was quite familiar with the phenomenon of burn out. It is a relatively new term, appearing just around the mid-70s which Urban Dictionary [...]
After such a great day I wanted to let you know all about our little families Saturday adventures. I was invited along to the launch of the Baby and Toddler Laughter Yoga event based with the trendy Colab Scotland venue in Glasgow City Centre. It's a new class hosted by Teresa who runs one of [...]
My husband and I met in 2011, engaged in 2015, married in 2016 and decided to start a family in 2017. We were (are!) just like any other young couple - absolutely crazy about each other and delighted to be embarking on this huge life adventure together! Michael is genuinely my best friend and I [...]
June in Scotland usually means the chance of a "wee bitta" sun for us up here north of the border, that's only if were lucky right enough! But this year June means the start of something MUCH more exciting as it marks the start of Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail. I was kindly asked along [...]
Being A Parent When my partner started this Guest blog series I wanted to contribute aswell by writing a piece for all the dads out there who might relate to my story of fatherhood. These last few weeks have got me thinking what does it mean to be a parent? I think you become a [...]
Mind Your Own Motherhood. My path to motherhood has been a struggle. And not in the way you might have imagined like infertility issues, battles with IVF, hormone treatments. Maybe I forgot to regularly take my uterus around the block every few years before it completely seized up? Classic mistake but no. I’m one of [...]
Being a Rock in a Hard Place Grief is hard! Really. Bloody. Hard. The sad reality is that everybody is grieving for something, whether it is the loss of a loved one, the loss of a relationship, perhaps the last season of Game of Thrones didn’t turn out the way they had hoped. Regardless, grief [...]
"when you're a mum you'll understand".. a knife right in the gut when this was said to me whilst I was pregnant with Leo. A flippant comment made with the best intentions and it still affects me when I think about it 6 months later. In that moment I wish I had screamed that I [...]
All I’ve ever wanted in life was to be a Mum. Having experienced infertility, miscarriage and stillbirth, maybe I should have been more specific in asking the universe to allow me to be a mother to a baby that is alive. I am a Mum, just not in the way I had ever imagined. Imagine [...]
The struggles of becoming a mother Becoming a mother was all I had ever hoped for. I came off contraception in summer 2014 when on a party holiday to Magaluf (with the husband - can you believe! ‘Couples that rave together, stay together’ after all 😉) Id tried so many different contraception’s and they were [...]
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