My teenage surgery led to post-traumatic stress disorder. My motherhood story actually begins way before I met my husband or was thinking of

New me. Who dis? LEAH'S MOTHERHOOD STORY Somehow, somewhere along the line between all of the sleeplessness and the day-to-day chaos of...

When my son offered his first smile, it was to his father, not me. It hit me in that moment that he had never really seen me smile. In his s

To say my pregnancy was terrible was an understatement, because it was completely debilitating on all levels.

There is such pressure on women to get married, then you do (wife). The next question is “when are you going to start a family?”, so you do

My motherhood journey first began when I was 17 years old and fell pregnant with my first child. He was born happy and healthy and the labou

Letting go of Mummy guilt and finding what makes me happy. When I found out I was pregnant I felt as though my life was finally starting. I

At the start of June, just before Vinnie’s 1st birthday, I was diagnosed with Post Natal Depression. Truthfully, I think I’d been strugglin

Trusting your motherly instinct and dealing with a diagnosis.

I doubt that either of us knew just how drastically our lives would change the moment we received our daughters diagnosis. That moment of im

I always knew that I wanted to have kids but as I approached my mid-thirties, I did wonder whether it was actually going to be a reality for

Motherhood is everything I thought it would be and everything I didn’t think it would be. Every mother has a story and I don't particula

After the birth of my first son Niko, I was in shock at how my birth had gone down. I went into my pregnancy and labour thinking I had all t

Dear first-time-mum me, Congratulations! You’ve just given birth to a beautiful baby GIRL. As you lay there, your mind racing after only a c

Your phone call or text might just be what they need today. Tomorrow. Next week.

Facing IVF, an Incompetent Cervix and loss. My journey into motherhood was not easy. When I turned 30 I thought it was the right time to sta

When I was 17 weeks pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, the doctors discovered a cyst on my son’s brain. This was monitored very carefull

Life with triplets. It’s busy. It is harder than I’d ever imagined. It is three times the nappies, three times the washing, the cooking, the

Sometimes horrible shit happens…. I have an almost 8 month old baby boy called Max, named after the king of the Wild Things, Maurice Sendak

It has taken me a year to accept my son’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. I certainly didn’t deny it, but I didn’t share my intern