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A labor project - Distraction in early labor
“There are three things that are givens about labor. It’s hard work. It hurts a lot and you can do it. That’s the bottom line. All the...


How to have a home birth in Ireland
This is a question I get asked a LOT. Because I’m a doula, and because I’ve written about my own home birth here. There are three ways to...


Loving and Leaving: The challenges of childcare
My baby boy is joy. He is dancing eyes, mischievous cackles, steady hands and knees making a break for it up the stairs when I’m not...


The hardest part of a spouse traveling for work
My husband. I love you. When you are working away our house doesn’t quite feel like home; our family is incomplete. I yearn for your...


How rocking your baby to sleep counts as meditation
“We can't go over it We can't go under it We're just going to have to go through it” (from the song, 'We're going on a bear hunt' I spent...


I want another baby… if hormones could talk
Moments after my second baby was born, still high on a powerful cocktail of endorphins and oxytocin. Elation and love from the birth I so...


The look of love
09.03.15 The day I became a mother, after an epic labour, hopes for a homebirth dashed with a transfer to the Coombe, 12 hours of...


The mom-rage is real (and it’s not just the moms)
Sometimes you need permission from someone else to say the thing that weighs upon you. A dad I know said he understood how people...


LOVE.YOUR.BODY
A body The joy it has brought me (if "it" and "me" can be bringer and receiver of things) A home for my children; first in belly then, in...


Be in love with your life
"Be in love with your life" I read this quote recently, and it got me thinking. How do you fall in love with your life in a time when the...


The life changing magic of tidying up after your kids
It never ends this housework. But why should it? The house keeps working, the family keeps moving.


What to do with the placenta?
Only took me two and half years and a pandemic to get around to burying the placenta from my younger son.


Meditation and motherhood-10 ways new motherhood is like a Buddhist retreat
I'm pacing up and down the hallway of our apartment, slowly, slowly with a slight bounce in my step and a jiggle in my arms. I am...


What's your magic number?
I've been pondering the question of how many kids is the 'right' number of kids? Or how do you even know what the 'right' number for you is?


Yes, the relationship needs baby-proofing too
Nothing could have prepared me for the challenges to our relationship wrought by sleep deprivation, the erosion of me-time (his and mine).


Beating the need to stay up past your bedtime to get your 'me time'
Those precious hours between baby bedtime and mama bedtime fly by, don't they? So how DO you get your me-time in before you're exhausted?


How the love grows with a second baby
I looked at my toddler, pottering about our apartment and I wondered.How could I ever love another one this much?


What nobody tells you about sex after babies
Lots of things are different about sex post-baby. Some things people will talk about freely.. and some things they might not tell you...


We don't talk about the loneliness of motherhood
Maybe if they served alcohol at mum and baby pilates classes I’d have made more mama friends when on maternity leave?


Baby's first birthday is your birthday too mama...
When a baby is born a mother is born too, so why not celebrate the birthing day as well as the baby's first birthday?
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