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Rhiannon Lucy CosslettThe Guardian |
I have a confession: I am a secret Mumsnet lurker. It started in the small hours, when my son was tiny. I had ventured on to it a little in pregnancy...
What do you do if you always imagined a house full of children, but don’t want to be a biological parent? This was the dilemma facing one of my...
Our flat is a mess. I write this looking at a pile of laundry taller than I am, besides which are two semi-unpacked suitcases and a Fisher-Price...
It had already been stressful, and then the government said my son didn’t exist. After an initial administrative fiasco, we were all set to claim...
It is always at bedtime that the horror of Gaza hits Naila Khan. “You know the images of those Palestinian parents, where they’re rocking their...
Growing up in Gwynedd, it was fairly common to encounter children called Aneurin. The name, meaning possibly “man of honour” or “all golden”,...
I was going to do green eggs and ham. That would be a cool costume, the competitive mother that sometimes lives inside me thought. Thankfully I...
When Tamarin Norwood buried her son, Gabriel, the coffin was so light that it was lowered to the ground with lengths of ribbon that she had chosen...
“Could you do a poo like this?” There’s a sentence I will never forget. I was in my second trimester and doing a hypnobirthing course. The...
Something’s happened to high street clothes. I can’t be the only person that has noticed. In the past decade or 15 years, small details that used...
Like many parents of young children, I spend much of my life in playgrounds. We are lucky in that there are six of them within close walking distance...
It’s hard to know what to say when you’re asked what childbirth is like. There are as many answers to that question as there are women. Perhaps...
Sleep, I came to understand this year, is everything. Without sleep, action, change and momentum all feel impossible. Without sleep, you are living...
“Have you seen those baubles – Baby’s First Christmas? If my first pregnancy hadn’t ended in miscarriage, last year would have seen our tree...
Were I to pitch a cookbook, it would be this: healthy, easy toddler meals that take less than 20 minutes, for busy, tired parents who can’t be...
‘Say what you want about millennials, but this is a generation of hands-on dads.” If you’re a parent on Instagram, you have probably seen a...
For my sins, I went to Primark this week. I usually try to avoid the high street for ethical reasons, but occasionally I have to buy the bairn some...
An old friend asked me recently why I never put my son’s face online. “Can you explain the not showing pics of babies thing to me?” she asked....
I’ve been having a tough time with my mental health lately. Anxiety and low mood have been compounded by my son’s repeated night wakings, and...
P arenthood is replete with madeleines. Not just in the cake form – when I was struggling to breastfeed and trying to up my milk supply, I bought...
“A sad little hello to women in their 30s having an evening of shit Proustian flashbacks to the mid-2000s,” the historian Hannah Rose Woods...
I t’s hard enough being a working mother of young children, especially one in the process of getting divorced, without being smeared in the press as...