Postpartum confidence is a strange creature that lurks and only pops out when you least expect it… or that is what I have found, anyway. Having a baby fills you with doubt… am I feeding him enough? Is she…
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Postpartum hair loss is something that I completely forgot about until it started happening again. My little bundle of joy is now four and a half months old. A few weeks ago, I noticed my hair had begun to…
If you know me in real life, you’ll know that the fact I’m trying to stay fit while pregnant is a little bit odd as I was hardly what you’d call athletic to begin with. Having said that, I…
It’s 1st January and I’ve seen countless posts on social media about making resolutions as well as a handful of ‘no resolutions here’ type ones. I distinctly fall into the second category of people. Not because I don’t want…
Pregnancy anxiety can appear, whether you have already experienced difficulties or not. For me, I have some terrible memories and anxieties linked to my complete molar pregnancy that happened to be my first pregnancy in 2010. Going to a…
There are some things not to say to a pregnant woman that seem to be completely forgotten about. It’s almost as though someone encounters someone carrying a baby and all filters are suddenly switched off and any thoughts they…
I’m pregnant at 40 – that’s certainly not a sentence I thought I would be saying! After I had my second daughter, I always felt as though I was destined to have a third. Alas, I came to the…
“Knowing my luck” is something I say far more often than I feel comfortable doing so. It shows an unhealthy amount of pessimism, and I don’t want that in my life. I suppose I’m Alanis Morrisette’s song, Ironic, personified…
As I’m writing this, I’m finding it challenging to accept that my 2021 has already been and gone. Sometimes, I still feel as though the millennium has only just happened, and I’m still a teenager. Dear 2021, What can…
The word resilience seems to be used in many different contexts as a necessary quality. But is there such a thing as too much resilience? What is resilience? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, resilience is defined as “the ability to…