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“I went back to work 6 days after my baby was born.”

Sarah Megginson — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:30:44 +0000

By SARAH MEGGINSON When I saw Claire Danes “back at work” (if you can call it that) just a few weeks after giving birth to her little boy, I was judging her a little. Admittedly, she wasn’t working in any sense that us mere mortals could relate to – she was trotting [read more]

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A hospital birth would have saved Kate’s baby.

Mamamia News — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:10:11 +0000

By MAMAMIA NEWS Kate* has three children, two of whom were born via caesarean section. When she became pregnant with her fourth child, she went to the Internet in search of more information about the possibility of having her baby at home. Convinced by endless data and statistics she found online, Kate made [read more]

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Apparently this is the new rite of passage for 12 year olds. Seriously?

Kate Hunter — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:32:28 +0000

By KATE HUNTER ‘Children these days generally move into a double bed once they hit double figures,’ said the saleslady at the bed shop. ‘Really? All of them?’ My friend Jules was shocked. ‘Well no,’ the saleslady paused. ‘A lot go straight to a queen size.’ I was shocked too. [read more]

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Who needs an epidural when you can have an orgasm?

Mamamia Team — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:01:47 +0000

By MAMAMIA TEAM She’s been called the ‘mummy messiah’. A saviour and liberator of mothers everywhere. A (non-medical) expert on childbirth. And she wants YOU to have an ecstatic birth. What is an ecstatic birth you ask? Well, for a start, it involves a lot of pregnant shagging and sex toys [read more]

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BERN: ‘I’ve never helped at the canteen’ + 5 other reasons why I’m not a ‘Supermum’.

Bern Morley — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:30:55 +0000

By BERN MORLEY I overheard some ladies at school the other day declaring loudly that “She is a total Supermum, so organised and always immaculate”. Oh, they weren’t talking about me, no they were discussing some other mother that is on the P & F committee, helps in the classroom on a daily [read more]

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Does every working mum feel like this?

Senator Larissa Waters — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:38:12 +0000

By SENATOR LARISSA WATERS There are some text messages that strike fear into the hearts of parents, especially when they’ve been typed from hundreds of kilometres away. When the words “Lana has high temp taking her to doc update u at 2” flashed across my Blackberry while I was in the middle of a [read more]

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Having a baby improves your social life. Seriously.

Nicky - Mamamia — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:00:43 +0000

By NICKY CHAMP “Your life is over when you have kids!” It’s a popular catch phrase often trumped out after announcing one’s pregnancy (there’s nothing like a happy congratulations) but as it turns out there’s an unexpected upside to starting a family. A new study has revealed that having a [read more]

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Two men experience childbirth, their wives sit nearby drinking coffee.

Mamamia Team — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:50:39 +0000

Two men in the US decided to give their wives a Mother’s Day gift they’ll never forget – making the brave decision to experience childbirth in the form of simulated labour pains because well as they put it, “women exaggerate everything”. Take a look at the video and watch how they quickly renege on that [read more]

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A new medical test that has midwives and expectant mums fuming.

Mamamia Team — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:45:07 +0000

By MAMAMIA TEAM “Excuse me, ma’am, can you please get out of the vehicle and breathe into this device?” “Um, of course but hold on a moment, I’m heavily pregnant.” “Oh we know. This is a smoking breath test.” Okay, so although it’s unlikely that the police force will be involved, a [read more]

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Reader story: “Today my heart broke just a little bit.”

Anonymous — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:45:39 +0000

By ANONYMOUS Today my heart broke just a little bit – the tiniest little crack that I’d put aside especially for this moment. It was the day of her first period. I knew it was coming, the writing was on the wall and maybe I even felt it just a little [read more]

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