mummy honesty

#ToBeHonest: I really miss bonding with my baby through breastfeeding

#ToBeHonest: I really miss bonding with my baby through breastfeeding

This week is World Breastfeeding Week. All over social media I’m seeing mums post photos of themselves breastfeeding their children. It brings back a lot of happy memories of when I breastfed my own children but it also made me pine for those days a little too. My breastfeeding journey was not straightforward at all. […]

5 years ago

#ToBeHonest: the tea and toast after giving birth is the best meal ever

#ToBeHonest: the tea and toast after giving birth is the best meal ever

Forget about your four star cuisine. If you’ve given birth in an Irish maternity hospital you know all about the best meal ever which is the post labour tea and toast. It’s iconic, it should probably have a little golden teapot and toaster statue somewhere in the country at this stage really. The first time […]

5 years ago

#ToBeHonest: I wasn’t a ‘kid person’ at all until I had my own child

#ToBeHonest: I wasn’t a ‘kid person’ at all until I had my own child

I never would have described myself as a ‘kid person’. Despite being the eldest of my siblings and one of the oldest grandkids in my family I never baby sat growing up or changed a nappy before becoming a parent. I knew at some point I wanted to have kids but I wasn’t someone who […]

5 years ago

Naomi Ann Smith shares honest post on not having the typical pregnancy body

Naomi Ann Smith shares honest post on not having the typical pregnancy body

Pregnancy is not a ‘one size fits all’. Typically when we see depictions of pregnant women they are generally slender apart from a perfectly round bump at the front. For a lot of woman that is pretty close to how they look in pregnancy but by no means is it how every pregnant woman looks […]

6 years ago