Newsflash: Mother’s Day is supposed to be a celebration of us mums, but it is often just as exhausting, busy, and responsibility-laden as any other Sunday. There is pressure to make it OH-SO-SPECIAL for all the mums in our lives, and we know better than anyone that we’re usually the default special-makers in the home. […]
I am not one for diets and fitness crazes. First of all, food is delicious. Letting someone who whipped up a new fad with lots of rules run my life means I’d get less of that delicious food. No, thanks. Secondly, there is plenty of yum out there that can be eaten in health-conscious quantities, keeping […]
I confess to not being the greatest at math, so when I heard right before I was about to have my first kid that there was a fourth trimester, I did a bit of fact-checking. I mean, I was pretty sure a nine-month pregnancy broken down by TRImesters meant I’d have only three of them: […]
From the time we mention we’re interested in possibly starting a family sometime soon, we’re warned about the terrible twos. “Enjoy that sweet baby now, because the toddler years are around the corner”. No one tells us that behind the so-called “terrible twos”, the real monster is lurking. The threes. The truth is, the threes […]
Baby modeling. Babies and modeling are two things that go together about as well as oil and water, if you would have asked me before I had kids. To me, the idea of baby modeling conjured up images of Toddlers & Tiaras. Babies and toddlers dressed up like cupcakes in outfits that cost thousands of […]
Whether you work or stay at home (or both), there is one thing that unites all mothers: mum guilt. Like many things related to motherhood, mum guilt is personal. We all have our own version. Of course, not every mum will feel guilty about the decisions she makes regarding work and motherhood. Some take great offense […]
My belly still looked pregnant after the birth of my first child. Six months postnatal, I still looked like I was eating for two and was getting frustrated. Especially given that I had lost the baby weight and had been dieting and working out like a mad woman. Turns out I had a condition called […]
I was ridiculously organised in preparation of giving birth to my first baby to ensure it all went exactly as I wanted it to. Everything I received from my baby shower was put in place the day I got home from the party. My hospital bag was thoroughly packed way in advance. Three copies of […]
I Hired a Housekeeper to Save My Sanity and Have No Regrets Whether we’re stay-at-home mums, or working mums, or even work-at-home mums, most would probably agree that juggling parenting with our other responsibilities is hard. There are laundry piles to tackle. Sticky dishes piled in the sink calling our names. Meals to cook […]
When you’re parenting an emotionally intense child, you’re going to have challenges that other parents won’t have. Where their kids hold their hands in public and walk nicely, yours is the one, well, possibly hollering because he can’t have that Paw Patrol Transforming Truck. But what exactly does it mean to have an intense child? […]
Yoga pants and mums have become a cliche. Something mums wear to pick up kids from school and swing through the Starbucks drive-through. In jokes and memes and occasionally maybe even in reality, yoga pants exist purely to collect baby spit up and as a napkin to collect potato chip grease. A recent Saturday […]
“I’m not going to change when I became a mum.” “I don’t want motherhood to alter who I am as a person.” “Yeah, I’m going to have a baby, but I don’t want to be, like, a mum.” Chances are, before you became a mother, you may have uttered one of these statements, or at […]
