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On Sunday, I went along to a soft play birthday party for my niece. Not my idea of fun at the best of times but with Zach’s broken wrist, my enjoyment levels were at a minimum. I was closely supervising him whilst the others ran amok. I spoke to some of the bigger boys, my […]

The whole country, and indeed the world, have been waiting with bated breath for weeks for the happy arrival of the royal baby. And now their Royal Highnesses have begun the biggest and happiest challenge of their lives. I’ll admit to being a bit miffed at their announcement a few weeks ago that the news […]

This week is UK Maternal Mental Health Matters week. Savvy bloggers published and promoted posts all week. Crappy bloggers like me post at the end… And there you have it. Mental health in a nutshell. Comparing yourself to others. Finding yourself lacking. Overly self critical, even vicious. If one of my children had the same […]

I now have a threenager (hi Zach!) A complicated whirlwind of emotions…     I remember when Matthew was a toddler, and I had a newborn Anya, my neighbour with teenaged children came around and said she didn’t envy me as the toddler years are the hardest which REALLY surprised me. This week I have been […]

Hang on a minute… pelvic floor exercises can be fun? Yes! When I was a teen, I remember the joke image of women pulling ‘sucking on a lemon’ face to imply they were squeezing their pelvix floor muscles. I would randomly practice pelvic floor exercises whenever I remembered but would soon get distracted and forget […]