“I’d love to tell you how wonderful it was to take home this tiny new human and nurture it through ‘the most natural thing in the world’, but breastfeeding for us was a bit of a disaster.” Leni White-Knight on a difficult start to motherhood…
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Skin to skin contact with your baby has been proven to help with bonding and reduce the risk of postnatal depression and anxiety (for both parents). But how do you incorporate it into your every day life? We asked our readers – and their answers were quite beautiful…
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“The door opened and in walked a huge bunch of flowers. As they tottered towards me, I could see my daughter underneath and she said ‘flowers for my mummy.’ Even now hearing those words makes me cry.” Emma Sutton on becoming an adoptive parent…
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Some couples get pregnant immediately. Others take longer. In ‘he says/she says’ interviews, we ask four couples who didn’t get pregnant the first time to share their conception stories with us…
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Comedy duo The Scummy Mummies host a fortnightly podcast for ‘less-than-perfect parents’, covering boobs, fannies and serious parenting issues like postpartum psychosis. We speak to one half, Helen Thorn, who gives us a lot of lols…