Pregnancy & Birth

Why do so many suffer from Postnatal Depression is silence?  Postnatal Depression is only recently something I have clumsily braved to talk about, starting with trying to describe recovering from…

Following Norah’s birth, I struggled with postnatal depression for 18 long, dark months. Doesn’t that seem like too fleeting a sentence to describe an illness that had such a pervasive…

A baby boy at twenty-two. I will start, as I did in life, with Leo. My pregnancy was a surprise. Cradling a tiny pink baby against my chest my twenty-two-year-old…

A complicated pregnancy.  Months have passed since Norah was born and already there are grey, smudged spaces invading my memory. Exhaustion, pain and the clever innate ‘forget’ mechanism that keeps…

Don’t tell me how to have a baby. Pregnancy, I have come to realise it is not always, or often, coupled with simplicity. When I had my son I was…

What is a Birth Plan? Sometime around 32 weeks pregnant my baby app encouraged me to consider creating one. The app highlights many things, some useful, some not. I am…

Everything you will need for your baby for the first six weeks, and a few things you don’t. Buying for a new baby can be overwhelming, especially for first time…