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Things that make me proud

June 21, 2009 – 10:48 am

Jim Belshaw wrote a post listing 5 things that make him proud, and has tagged SL and I to do the same. I’m not going to write a list, mainly because I’m terrible at lists. I struggle with memes. The main thing in life that makes me proud is family: my children, my husband, my [...]

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Being Supermum

January 9, 2009 – 10:18 pm

Having just given birth to my second child 8 weeks ago, I know it’s not easy to bounce back afterwards. When I was about 36 weeks pregnant, I was sitting in the gynaecologist’s waiting room, reading one of those trashy magazines. There was a story entitled, “How these celebs got their post-baby bodies back immediately.” [...]

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Pregnancy is not an illness…

March 7, 2008 – 8:38 am

…but sometimes it sure as hell feels like it. Boom tish! When I was having my daughter, we had a trainee midwife attending us as one of her “case studies” for qualification. She had a sticker or something with the motto “Pregnancy is not an illness”. From this you could tell she was young, idealistic, [...]

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Now that’s far too late to wean…

May 28, 2007 – 6:52 pm

I am all in favour of breastfeeding. But sometimes a good thing can be taken too far. According to BBC News, Dr Izzat Atiya of Al-Hazar University in Cairo issued a fatwa as follows: He said that if a woman fed a male colleague “directly from her breast” at least five times, they would establish [...]

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Breast is best

December 2, 2006 – 9:56 pm

In his comment on ‘Prudish Jurisprudence?’, Iain mentioned that the American public has a very strange attitude: they decry images of naked women and sex on TV, but are quite happy to see violence. This made me think of a report concerning an American parenting magazine which featured a baby feeding from its mother’s breast [...]

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