I nearly snatched the pram back from her hands
“As she lifted the pram into the boot of her car, I had to fight the rising urge to ask for it back.”
Goodbye, my school boy
I never thought I’d say this—is a mother’s heart ever ready?
Pregnant in a pandemic
When COVID-19 arrived in Australia, I was 20 weeks into my third pregnancy, making it one of my biggest challenges yet.
How a conversation saved my life
The first time I tried to kill myself, I was just 12 years old. . . . Over the next eight years, I would try to take my life another 13 times.
Suffering. For me, it’s personal
As I write this, my dear friend Brenda has just died. She was 36 and leaves a husband and three children, the youngest of whom is a five-month-old baby.
I was a workaholic—and then I had kids
“I’m a CEO and have over 200 staff . . . but the truth is that being a parent is by far the most challenging undertaking I’ve ever engaged in.”
My kids didn’t expect this after they failed to do their chores—again
“I knew Jacob needed a consequence for his inaction, but all I could think about were the chores that awaited me, and here I was doing his simple chore on top of it!”
Caring for my disabled child: “This phase won’t pass”
I have had parents say to me “well my child never tells me what happens at school anyway!”, like it’s the same thing. Don’t be that person.
A letter to me, the new mum
“You’ll probably never shake off the guilty feeling that Elliott will transition fully onto formula by the time he is three months old.”
Please stop telling me to have another child
My husband and I have recognised that being parents of just one child is what’s right for us. I shouldn’t need to explain.
We heard the words no parent should ever have to hear
As a mother, you will do whatever you can to protect your babies, but what do you do when that option isn’t there?
“There were days I wished someone would take my son away from me.”
I was irritable and angry, snapping at the smallest things. I felt hopeless and dead inside.