If there’s one thing I learnt while pregnant, it’s that however niche your question about your pregnancy, another mother-to-be will have already asked it. During my pregnancy, I searched dozens of increasingly obscure questions and never came up blanks. Granted, most of the resulting pages are chatroom/comment threads without actual […]
Parenting
What Support Do Single Mothers Get In The UK?
One of the first questions that many single mothers have on becoming the sole head of a household is ‘how am I going to cope as a single mum?’. Often, the biggest part of this challenge is financial. If, like me, you’re entering single motherhood after a separation, the chances […]
How many single mothers are there in the UK?
Almost nothing can make you feel more lonely than becoming a single mother, especially if it’s not the way you planned on raising children. Still, even though you might feel like you’re the only one in this situation, especially if you don’t know anyone else close to you who is […]
‘Slowly Descending Into Madness’: The Truth About Living With Severe Pregnancy Sickness
At least one in every hundred people who get pregnant will experience Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG). It is a debilitating and severe form of pregnancy sickness that can last anywhere from 12 to 40 weeks, so bad that research suggests that 25% of sufferers experience suicidal thoughts during their pregnancy. So […]
How To Be A Happy Single Parent: The Book!
Happy Single Parents Day to all my fellow single and solo parents. Today is all about US! I’ve been a single mum for six years now, and not only have I enjoyed each and every year more than the last, this journey has taken me to places I never expected, […]
Single Parents Need Support, Not Shame
Half of all children in lone parent families are now living in relative poverty. If you are a single parent, you are probably feeling the pressure. The cost of living crisis is set to hit some groups harder than others and single parents who shoulder the extra burden of bill […]
Shall We Talk About Pelvic Floor Health?
The pelvic floor isn’t something you really hear mentioned in day to day life. I don’t think I ever heart ANYONE say it until I got pregnant. And it wasn’t until after Jack’s birth that a midwife or doctor mentioned in passing that I should think about pelvic floor exercises […]
Can You Exercise When Pregnant? MAMAWELL’s Pre & Post-Birth Workout Tips
I don’t know about you – but exercise wasn’t top of my priority list in pregnancy. It placed several places below macaroni and cheese and was way below the daily warm bath and ‘One Born Every Minute’ routine (FYI I haven’t watched a single episode following the disaster zone that […]
Eating for Two: How Much Should You Eat During Pregnancy?
What should you eat during pregnancy? This might help… If you’re expecting, the chances are you’re probably not eating your usual diet. Either you’re feeling so sick you’re on a strict dry toast and ginger biscuits rotation, or you’re ‘eating for two’ and mainlining macaroni cheese at every meal time […]
The Best Things About Being A Single Mum
Being a single mum is brilliant. I wanted to just let that sentence have its own line because usually it is caveated. ‘Being a single mum is brilliant, but…’. ‘Being a single mum isn’t all bad but it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do.’ It’s not that the statement doesn’t […]