Notes on Motherhood

Voices of motherhood

Last year I received an email so hateful that I felt sick for weeks. It was an email criticising that fact that I wrote about my son and about his illness on my blog, how I wrote about parenting instead of actually parenting and how I was doing that for money and pageviews and links [...]

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Just a mother

Edward is now a gurgling, joyous seven-month-old and I am at last – and some would say not before time – starting to look outwards at the world around me again. I have hunkered down since he was born in order, I think, to survive, although this has been in a psychological sense since I [...]

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Being a stay at home mother is/is not hard

I don’t care what anyone says: my job as a stay-at-home-mother is really hard sometimes. The baby cried from about two o’clock this morning onwards and when light finally appeared it was obvious why when I saw this around his mouth: an allergic reaction to something he ate yesterday (although I’ve no idea what) and [...]

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Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box

Three years ago I was in the depths of terrible post-partum depression. During the worst of these times I was a blink away from doing something, anything that would have taken away the dreadful days. At the time I couldn’t admit how I was feeling to anyone and it took an acquaintance to point out [...]

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Baby-proofing your Marriage

When you have a baby it can feel like your entire life has been turned upside down. Even if you attended ante-natal classes and read whole shelves of books while you were pregnant, nothing really prepares you for the bombshell that is the arrival of your first baby. Somehow we muddle through those early weeks, [...]

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Martha madness

While the baby was merrily throwing his food around his highchair tray and over the kitchen walls, I picked up last week’s Sunday Telegraph Magazine which promised revelations about ‘America’s domestic goddess on life after prison’. I couldn’t really care less about Martha Stewart, indeed before she went to prison she barely registered on my [...]

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