DAILY MAIL CRECHE SCANDAL Watching primetime made me feel sick to my stomach and I have often looked at James since he was born wondering how anyone could hurt kids, as they are so innocent and defenseless. Parenting is a cycle of guilt and as a single mother I always worry if I’m doing my best.… Continue reading AS PRINTED FRIDAY 30TH MAY IRISH DAILY MAIL
SUMMER HAZARDS FOR BABIES Like with every stage of parenting just as you get to grips with current issues another set of problems crop up. So you baby proofed the house and up till now you have been able to sit back and smile or even pat yourself on the back. Yes I do this… Continue reading SUMMER HAZARDS FOR BABIES
Why can’t I ever do things by halves?? I was complaining to Sarah Mac Lachlann from Pilates Performance that I didn’t feel I was getting results quick enough and she informed me I actually needed to make my classes. Hmm I thought, now that makes sense!! I decided to do three classes in a row… Continue reading VIP MAGAZINE PARENTING MAY 7TH
Well if you had told me 3 years ago I would be unable to sleep because I was so excited about going to a baby fair I would have had you committed…. No, really I would and so would anyone who knows me! However that is simply what happened last week. I just returned from… Continue reading VIP MAGAZINE PARENTING APRIL 23RD
I’m trying to figure out why my bladder is so near my eyes these days. I often think because I buried my emotions for so long there was a backlog of tears or else I’m simply drinking to much… water that is!!! I had a crap birthday; no ones fault and I was feeling really… Continue reading VIP PARENTING COLUMN 17TH APRIL
Last week as I was driving James to crèche and a very strange thing happened. James started screaming: “Ouch Mummy it hurts. It’s so bright. Make it go away.” The first thing any paranoid freak of a mother like me thinks about is meningitis. But being in Ireland the actual culprit here was the sun.… Continue reading VIP MAGAZINE PARENTING March 26th
SUPERMUM The end of my pregnancy Tuesday Sep 7th: ‘This part of my pregnancy really is exciting now. Any minute of the day I’ll have a son or daughter’ I wrote this a week before my due date and what a week that was. I really think what we do is truly amazing. Creating and… Continue reading SUPERMUM- MAIL ON SUNDAY BIRTH STORY 24th Feb 2013
AS PUBLISHED IN OH BABY MAGAZINE It’s funny how time can make a bad experience and difficult period in your life not seem quite as bad as you thought. I was moving out of my Mums recently and found a diary that I had kept from the day I discovered I was expecting. Why did… Continue reading POST NATAL DEPRESSION – MY DIARY
Temporary reward schemes (jellies, I’m desperate), bribary, late nights working, eating crap food, no exercise, washing not done, lost all my accounts on my computer…. You might have guessed it my healthy and organized start to the year has not just gone wrong but completely bonkers off the wall kind of wrong. James tugs (hugs)… Continue reading VIP MAGAZINE – PARENTING COLUMN 12TH FEB
