The Mayo mummy blogger who admits: ‘Google is my best mentor…’

Yes Lindsay O'Flaherty, aka Mary ‘not so’ Poppins took to Facebook to share a candid message mainly about sh*t.

On her Facebook page, the Mayo native spoke about how Google has become one of her best mentors when it comes to wanting more information surrounding pregnancy—despite its tendency to give us horrifying responses. The questions she poses are undoubtedly similar to those that enter other mums' thoughts during pregnancy... and the response she received from other Facebook users was brilliant. Currently residing in England, Lindsay is mum to two little boys—Riley, three, one-year-old Jesse, and the newest addition—a beautiful baby girl who isn't yet even a week old. Although it wasn't Lindsay's first time being pregnant it’s clear that that didn't make her any less curious about certain scenarios that occurred. “I had 5 sh**s today... does that mean I’ll go into labour soon?” she asked. "Does the amount of shit have anything to do with it? No. But you need to ask because your baby is being a brat and won't tell you when it's gonna make an appearance so if baby won't cooperate, surely google will!!" "Unless someone checks your browsing history, your device is the only thing that knows (given by the questions you ask it) you're bat sh*t crazy but it's ok, it doesn't judge.. it gives you bat sh*t crazy answers instead," she says. We can all probably relate to that one. It's not just the Facebook posts that have us giggling—Lindsay's blog is brimming with anecdotes surrounding family life as well as straightforward and sincere accounts about anxiety, meltdowns, being too hard on herself as well as the many lessons learned through parenting. Speaking to HerFamily, Lindsay told us,

"The reason I started my blog was I felt I was driving my family crazy—sending them every picture and every silly thing my kids did each day because living away can get lonely. So I thought with a blog I could share everything and with a wider audience too, who could relate to our day-to-day antics. It definitely made me feel less isolated as a mother."

On her blog, Lindsay speaks openly about issues such as how she felt her looks “going to sh*t” while trying to keep everything together among the hustle and bustle of everyday life, raising two energetic bundles of joy—and now a third. Sharing motherhood experiences in the most amusing and relatable way, we felt we'd share a snippet of one of her most recent accounts relating to breastfeeding. Be sure to give this mama's excellent blog a read too.

Day 3 is a bag of d***s!! By the end of it you will be frantically searching your hospital notes for the details of the Stork and a returns label but I assure you it gets better. Well it gets worse first but then it gets better. So day 3 works like this. Baby is getting used to being on the outside and is now ready for a proper feed, not the yellow drizzle they call colostrum, they want the white stuff and won't stop until they get it. Unfortunately all you got is the yellow drizzle but your new little bundle of wrinkles is just going to keep on sucking until that changes. So that's what happens ALL NIGHT LONG.

Tip one: Keep swapping boobs. I didn't know to do this with my first born and as it was more comfortable to hold him on one side, that's what I did and ended up with one Pamela Anderson size boob and one Keira Knightly size boob... great look as you can imagine. What I meant by 'it gets worse, then better' is that after all your baby's hard work at getting your milk to come through, you are now left with the burning pain of the devil on your burger sized bleeding cracked nipples.

Tip two: For the next day or two hold your breath and curl your toes when your baby first latches on, and count... just start counting. It will ease off by the time you hit 60 and by day 5 the pain is gone. If it's something you really want to do just know you need to persevere with that couple of days and it all gets a lot easier I promise.

Another tip on breastfeeding... If you are going to leave your baby to go away for a night and plan on pumping during that night to keep the flow normal for when you get back to baby, DO IT. A full night sleep without having to get up to feed the baby is very tempting but when you don't pump and wake up drowning in your own breast milk feeling like someone has chained two kettlebells around your neck and left them hanging where your boobs should be then you realise, pumping for 10 minutes and going back to sleep is a much better option than the full night sleep... just saying!!