Birth Trauma

Birth Trauma Most of us approach giving birth with a degree of trepidation but ultimately a belief that all will be fine. And for the large portion of us, childbirth IS fine. Sometimes we’re disappointed because we didn’t have the birth experience we’d hoped for. Sometimes we experience childbirth as more difficult than we’d expected,
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Being a mum can be so hard!

Being a Mum can be so hard! When we think about what makes motherhood hard, we tend to think about all the stuff we must do. We think about getting babies to sleep, managing toddler tantrums and doing all the homework in such a rush just after school not to mention managing teenagers. And of
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A really really hard day …

I have a confession and this is probably the hardest, most exposing one that I’ve written so far. I’m so nervous to be putting this out there. Not because it demonstrates my most awful parenting but because I’m about to talk about an issue that is SO hard for me to talk about. This ‘issue’
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Something different …

Normally I post my #confessionsofaparentingexpert and it is time for one of those for sure. But I really want to just provide you all with some REALLY important information about women’s mental health during pregnancy and in the few years after their baby is born. Did you know… 1 in 10 women will experience symptoms of
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#confessions about my #confessionsofaparentingexpert

Someone messaged me the other day saying that she enjoyed reading my #confessions but that she felt bad because clearly she stuffed up way more than I did. Somehow she’d concluded that the frequency with which I’d written my blog matched the frequency of my stuff ups. Oh my goodness beautiful mama. How wrong you
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