Tomorrow, we’ll both be born. — Dear Bump Tomorrow we’ll both be born. Me — as a first-time mother and you — fresh and squalling into this crazy, beautiful world. You’re squirming around inside me as I write to you…it’s a feeling I’ve grown quite used to. We are so entwined now that movements which once…

The Mama Juggle strikes again. Working and mothering…something had to give. — Our final breastfeed You’re five months old and today I breastfed you for the last time. In that moment, as you were comfort-sucking through a pain in your belly, neither of us knew that we wouldn’t do this again. That this incredibly intimate exchange between us had drawn to a close. …

My baby thought the apple logo was his mother. — For the first three weeks of my son’s life, breastfeeding took two hands and a little piece of my soul. He was a smaller-than-average baby with a veracious appetite and a lazy latch, and I survived with a mixture of pumping, comp-feeding, finger feeding and a stubborn determination I possess but rarely call upon. It felt like I had my period for the first time all over again. At thirty-three…

The pscyhological dangers of testing for pregnancy too early. — ‘A line is a line,’ I remembered reading. ‘If you see a line, you are definitely pregnant.’ It was four days before my period was due and there was most definitely a faint purple line. It was our first time trying for a baby since the miscarriage in November last…

My body just betrayed me…yet somehow I’m supposed to love it? — Have you ever had an unsettling awareness of the beating of your own heart? You’re lying on a pillow and all you can hear is the thrum-thrum-thrum as blood pushes through your veins. It feels as though your heart has nestled in beside your brain and taken up residence in…

How to use economic pressure to help you overcome writing anxiety. — Last year, I quit my career in corporate finance to pursue my dream of writing full-time. I’d had a few articles published and was starting to get some traction so with a nice little nest-egg behind me, I decided to make the leap. …

There are downsides to living your dream…but at least you’re living your dream! — Have you ever fantasised about what you would do if you won the lotto? I used to say that I’d quit my job and write for a living. …

No matter your gestation, you’re allowed to feel this. — Being ‘known’ for your body’s uncanny ability to expel human life makes you a bit of an awkward dinner party guest. Miscarriage combines two of society’s most feared subjects — death and endometrial blood — to create the ultimate taboo. But after losing five pregnancies at varying stages, I’ve learnt…

Pregnancy after loss has been hard, but nowhere near as hard as not having you in my life. — My Dearest CJ I’m driving to see you again today. It’s something I used to dread. Something that would make my hands clammy and my heart race…wondering how you’d look when I got there. Wondering if I’d find out this time you were really leaving me. I didn’t have a…