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'I burst into tears and sobbed.' Why I didn’t do gender reveal parties for my two kids.

“Never would I make my husband's lunch.” I’m a stay at home mum. But I have a hard limit.

HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: "We need to talk about the 'lost years' that come with parenting."

Holly Wainwright

"I don’t do ‘mum guilt’." 21 women share their parenting boundaries.

"I had to be the best": The 5 things I'd do differently as a parent if I had my time again.

PARENT OPINION: “Bluey makes me feel bad about my parenting.”

Tracey Montgomery

HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: You’re not imagining it, your kids are naughtier with you.

Holly Wainwright

‘I’m a mum of 4 boys. These are the questions I get asked constantly.’

'They say it takes a village to raise a baby. But my phone is eerily silent.'

Rachel O'Connor

'I suffer from time-blindness.' The daily mental load of being a mum with ADHD.

HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: I'm sorry for all the things I didn't say about being a new working mum.

Holly Wainwright

'My husband hosed me down in the bath. The next day I knew I had to quit drinking.'

CHEZZI DENYER: 'I want to thank the haters who feel the need to tell me that I look old.'

Dear Dolly Doctor: Teenagers asked Melissa Kang questions for 23 years. Here's what she learnt.

'My daughter always comes last in cross-country. This week, I allowed her to skip it.'

Gabrielle Traynor

"We will never get this time back": The grief of raising a baby in 'Fortress Australia'.

“How the hell do parents make this work?” The unspoken truth about sick kids and childcare.

'When my daughter was getting married, I tried to be the perfect mum. I ruined everything.'

'Choosing to have kids is final. Choosing not to is a decision I make every day.'

Sophie Henrinckx

"Why I won't apologise for having a messy house."

Why the day after Mother's Day is often the hardest.

'I was a messy, blackout drunk. On Boxing Day 2018, I knew I'd gone too far.'

Motherhood

"Setting boundaries and saying 'no' makes me angry, so I now have a 'yes' list."

'They say it takes a village to raise a baby. But my phone is eerily silent.'

Rachel O'Connor

'A pair of Kmart knickers changed everything about how I see my post-baby body.'

Heather Leonard

Why the day after Mother's Day is often the hardest.

8 high-profile Australian mums on what they were never told about motherhood.

Billi Fitzsimons

An ode to 'Other Mothers', because for some of us, it wasn’t our mothers who raised us.

'This Mother's Day, I don't want a gift card. I want my partner to share the mental load.'

'Last Mother's Day, I was about to call my mum. Then my dad phoned.'

'My doctor didn't believe I was having menopausal symptoms at my age.'

10 Mother's Day cards that didn't exist. Until now.

Jessie Stephens

"I lie here with a broken heart." Camilla Franks has shared the heartbreak of removing her ovaries.

'I've been pregnant in my 20s, 30s and 40s and here's what differed each time around.'

A model and a rising tennis star: The lives of Bec and Lleyton Hewitt's three kids.

'For Mother's Day, I bought my mum the hair straightener everyone is talking about.'

5 genius Mother's Day gift ideas, because you can't give her spa vouchers forever.

The day I learned about 'intensive mothering' I stopped feeling guilty.

"Please, stop asking the mothers."

"My eyes are saying 'what the actual f**k'": Every new mum has a photo like this.

Amy Schumer's C-section scar and 9 other celebs who've shown us their real post-baby bodies.

"The pain became a part of my life. " How I healed from the loss of my estranged daughter.

Anonymum: "My best friend dumped me after I had kids. Do I give up on her?"

ANONYMUM: "When I saw a penis on my 20-week scan, I wailed."

"The behaviour of my friend's husband has made me uncomfortable on a few occasions."

"I just knowingly ruined a man's life, but he destroyed mine first."

A model and a rising tennis star: The lives of Bec and Lleyton Hewitt's three kids.

"Stop setting the bar so low. I'm a father, not a babysitter."

'She was waking eight times a night.' Mia Freedman on how sleep school saved her as a new mum.

"My wife is the real miracle." A dad's emotional tribute, moments after the birth of his son.

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"You are not alone." The Veronicas' Lisa Origliasso on her recent ectopic pregnancy.

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"I can't wait to hug her." 8 women share what it's like to be away from their mums in isolation.

'2020 is my daughter's final year of primary school, and we both feel ripped off.'

11 years, 3 kids and a cancer diagnosis: Michael Bublé's life with Luisana Lopilato.

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"It isn't easy on my own." Katie Price on homeschooling her son Harvey during COVID-19.

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"My legs are bored." 14 parents share their kids' most memorable little moments.

"I want to understand what he has to say." What it's like to raise a Deaf child.

Angelina Jolie's six kids aren't babies anymore. They're all grown up and we can hardly deal.

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"What if people tease him?" Sophie Cachia just voiced every school-age parent's first-day anxieties.

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