It’s a tough thing for any parent to admit, but one incredibly honest mum has voiced one of parenting’s biggest taboos.
Regret.
Irish mother Jeanne Measom already had four children when she discovered she was accidentally pregnant again.
Irish mother Jeanne Measom. Image via Instagram.
The unplanned pregnancy was even more of a shock when she found out she was having twins.
It was 2008 and the blogger was already 42 years of age and had assumed she had finished her family. Her children at the time ranged from 10-years-old to just 8 months. Her youngest, Charlie, was still being breastfed so she never expected to find out there were two more on the way.
In fact, Ms Measom thought she might be about to hit menopause as her own mum had gone through it quite young.
She told The Sun of her shock: “I stared and stared at the stick when it showed up positive. My husband was as shocked as I was. How on earth could this have happened?”
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I can understand a single mother feeling like this, but what the hell was the husband doing?? Perhaps she should have got a second - after all, what's one more, right?
It's not the honesty that affronts me but the lack of bathing the babies for a year! Yuck!
I think she's talking about herself.
If bath time was too much, I'd hand babies to hubby in the shower, so at least they had a quick rinse! They need that, especially with all the horrendous baby nappies. Or dunk them in the bath with the bigger ones - it's what I do with my youngest.
"I didn’t even give them the luxury of a bath for the first year. I was so exhausted, a clean down with wet wipes sufficed."
Nope, it's the boys. I really don't have a problem with it if they're washed as necessary. Our society is way too deep into associating total body bathing with virtue of some kind.