Life ‘Baby brain’ is real, it sticks around and it could benefit women in old age Research shows that ‘baby brain’ lamented by women across the world, is a very real thing which may have long-term, positive health impacts.
News & Views How ‘Matrescence’ could positively transform women’s experience of motherhood It can be shocking and even excruciating to both love and hate motherhood at different times. ‘Matrescence’ offers a different perspective.
Health ‘Breast is best’ is pressure that so many women (like me) don’t need I know there are some people that feel very strongly about breastfeeding, but my position has always firmly been: Do what works for you.
News & Views How you can stop caring about judgement of your choices as a young mum There are no winners in the judgement game, so make your own rules or simply refuse to play the game, writes Kate Christie.
News & Views Why I didn’t feel guilty dropping my baby off at daycare for the first time For those of us sending our kids off to daycare for the first time? Try to fight the guilt! Our babies are in safe, capable and loving hands.
News & Views I’ve been walking a work-life tightrope. It’s finally disintegrated and I’m ready to share my story When Danielle Williams’ two children were diagnosed with a rare genetic epilepsy, she realised her personal and professional lives, that she’d always kept apart, could in fact benefit one another.
News & Views Why I quit my job at a corporate law firm during a pandemic & a recession Working at a law firm, Sarah Behenna was constantly overlooked for promotion as she worked flexibly and was not considered to be a “real player”.
News & Views My Imposter Syndrome kicked in when I became a mum. I learnt a valuable lesson on backing yourself So many talented women suffer from self doubt and imposter syndrome daily. So where does it come from? Asks Kate Christie.
News & Views To parents of babies & toddlers who need the outside world right now For lots of parents of babies & toddlers isolation isn’t a huge stretch but for those parents craving connection outside, further isolation is torture.
News & Views Yummy Mummies: the reality TV show we really don’t need? Now into its second season, Yummy Mummies pedals some particularly damaging tropes about woman- and motherhood that ought to make any viewer visibly recoil.
News & Views A rare Bluey blunder: Chilli isn’t ‘falling short’ because she returned to work Blatant mother-shaming might be expected from Leunig but from the creators of Bluey? Hell to the no. To their credit they changed it quickly.
News & Views ‘I’m not ok’: Meghan Markle’s emotional confession “Any woman, especially when they’re pregnant, you’re really vulnerable, & so that was made really challenging,” Meghan Markle told ITV.