The Mummy Date

24/03/2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

At some point after having a baby, when you’re beginning to adjust to a tiny human ruling your life, you start getting bored with the same four walls and you know you need to get out of the house! Let’s be honest, babies, although cute and adorable (most of the time) they’re not much company and […]

Solitary

13/02/2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Single moments captured in my mind’s eye Shared memories, my own point of view Absorbing things I see, hear, taste, touch. Soul feelings only I can understand Worries, real to me yet irrational to others. Opinions formed through my own ideals. Trapped in a confused and complicated process in my mind Dream, hopes, fears Solitary thoughts […]

Birth Story

01/08/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

I don’t have a birth story. I have a labour story, which is actually quite amusing. There is no birth story. I don’t even know if I can call Sam arriving into the world a birth. Can I? Can I call it a birth? What do I tell him when he’s older? He wasn’t really […]

Love Is.

30/06/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Love. Love is not the feeling you have when you’re at the beginning of a relationship and everything is zingy, which lets face it won’t last and is lust dressed up in the feeling of Love. Love is something much better than that. Love will last much longer. Love comes in many forms. Love is […]

Why my VBAC ended with an emergency Caesarean section

17/06/2014.Reading time 12 minutes.

The birth of your child is supposed to be an amazing time of your life. For us, Mr C especially, this time round was scary and traumatic. Really there was nothing I could have done to prevent what happened. It was no ones fault. I was just one of the unlucky 1 in 450 women […]