Sharing my new normal type of motherhood
Avery was due on Christmas Day 2018. It has always been my favourite holiday and I spent most of last year believing it would be the best one yet. His pregnancy was uneventful and full of love, with each day I grew more attached to him and excited about his arrival. My name is [...]
The motherhood I didn't choose I wasn't sure whether I wanted children. Truth be told, I wasn't really sure what I wanted at all in life but having children definitely wasn't on the agenda, not for a long time anyway. It was only after a decade together and several years of marriage, my husband and [...]
Becoming a different kind of mother I’ve always had dreams of having my own family, since being a young girl I have had a way with children, I love them and they seem to love me! So much so that I studied childcare after leaving school in 2011 and haven’t looked back since. I have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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