At least one in every hundred people who get pregnant will experience Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG). It is a debilitating and severe form of pregnancy sickness that can last anywhere from 12 to 40 weeks, so bad that research suggests that 25% of sufferers experience suicidal thoughts during their pregnancy. So […]
How To Be A Happy Single Parent: The Book!
Happy Single Parents Day to all my fellow single and solo parents. Today is all about US! I’ve been a single mum for six years now, and not only have I enjoyed each and every year more than the last, this journey has taken me to places I never expected, […]
Happy Mother’s Day
To all the parents flying solo this Mother’s Day. This one goes out to you. To all the single and solo mums. To the solo dads doing the job of mum and dad and thriving regardless. To my own single mum, Jackie, who taught me that it doesn’t take two […]
Single Parents Need Support, Not Shame
Half of all children in lone parent families are now living in relative poverty. If you are a single parent, you are probably feeling the pressure. The cost of living crisis is set to hit some groups harder than others and single parents who shoulder the extra burden of bill […]
Recipe: Sticky Toffee Coffee & Walnut Cake
I am not a baker. At least, I wasn’t until I turned into a lockdown cliché and started baking scones, banana bread and brownies like the rest of the nation. And I had every intention of making a regular, run of the mill coffee and walnut cake right until the […]
Trickle-Down Therapy: People Pleasing Is Dishonest
In ‘trickle down therapy’, I pick a psychology, philosophy or self-help theory that I’ve learnt, listened to or benefitted from and break it down, very briefly, so that you can digest it and then go away and read more on it if you feel like it could help you. This […]
Don’t you feel guilty? Dealing With Single Parent Guilt
Mum guilt is not a new phenomenon. Mums have been feeling guilty since the dawn of time. For doing it all wrong. For being too attached. Not attached enough. For working when they should be parenting, parenting when they should be working. For single mums this is intensified. Welcome to […]
Prawn & Coconut Curry Recipe
Once you learn how to make a basic curry base, you can throw away the recipe book. Which might not be the best way to start an, ahem, recipe post, but maybe you haven’t learnt how to make a decent paste yet. I love creamy, coconut-y curries, and while I […]
Shall We Talk About Pelvic Floor Health?
The pelvic floor isn’t something you really hear mentioned in day to day life. I don’t think I ever heart ANYONE say it until I got pregnant. And it wasn’t until after Jack’s birth that a midwife or doctor mentioned in passing that I should think about pelvic floor exercises […]
The Snail and the Whale Live Stream Virtual Tour
There’s something so magical about a day at the theatre in the run-up to Christmas. Last Christmas I went to see The Snail and the Whale in the West End with Jack and my mum and we absolutely loved it. While it looks like theatre visits might be off the […]