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Guest Article: Five steps to improve your mental health in motherhood

April 24, 2019 2 Comments

Dr Carla Runchman is a Clinical Psychologist, mum of one, founder of Mama Diary and author of ‘Mama Notes’, a notebook for the first 12 weeks of motherhood to help mums focus on their emotional well-being. Together with space to make notes on newborn essentials such as feeding and nappies, each week has a well-being focus with ideas or activities to try, and journal pages with prompts to help you reflect on the important moments of these early weeks.

Parenting

A mother’s ‘worth’: can it be calculated?

March 26, 2019 No Comments

When entering the world of parenthood, your world changes completely. Some, parents choose to become stay-at-home parents, some try to work from home and stay with their children and others head back into the world of work.

Each ‘option’ comes with its highs and lows, positives and negatives.

Parenting

Busting 4 myths about being a mother

May 13, 2018 No Comments

Females are often hardwired to nurture, give advice, and at times judge. We are all human at the end of the day and we each have our flaws, and our preferred ways of doing things, but sometimes the advice we get, or maybe a comment we have overheard really gets to us. There is no […]

Home and Lifestyle, Other Stuff

Mother’s Day Gift Guide

March 6, 2018 No Comments

Mother’s Day is fast approaching again. Have you got your gifts and cards organised? Personally I think the best Mother’s Day gifts are free – I’d be happy with half an hour to lie in the bath to be honest, or just a cuddle and a movie night with my favourite little people. If you […]

Other Stuff, Parenting

Trusting other people with your children

January 22, 2018 2 Comments

Are you the primary carer of your children? Do you find it hard to trust other people with their care? You aren’t alone. A survey from Withings reveals that over half of all new mums don’t trust anyone but themselves to look after their baby. 55% of mums polled said they don’t trust their mum, […]

Parenting, Pregnancy

Why is motherhood so undervalued?

December 5, 2017 4 Comments

Motherhood is awesome. I feel very lucky and privileged to be a mother and every time I hear cries of “Mum” or “Mummy” I am reminded of how lucky I am. It’s not a role I take for granted. I am acutely aware that there are many women who would love to be mothers and […]

Parenting, Pregnancy

Post-baby body shaming: what many mums are enduring

October 11, 2017 1 Comment

Body shaming mothers after the birth of their baby and a continued amount of time afterwards – not something I ever thought I would be writing about but having seen a number of things of social media recently, this is clearly quite an issue. The definition of body shaming is the practice of making critical, potentially humiliating […]

Home and Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Parenting

Motherhood: the role with transferable skills

February 2, 2017 3 Comments

Mothers are highly resilient and multi-talented. Once you become a mum you realise that everything you have learned until that moment will never equal the stress, and the skills that are required for taking care of a baby. Despite the odd pre-natal class perhaps, the bulk of us are totally unprepared for this new role. […]