This is honestly the best article on birth trauma I have ever read. I feel like Clare put so many things into words that I also went through and haven't been able to articulate.
Ok this is just terrifying. I am so sorry to hear what you went through.
Wonderful news! Great to see Sophie looking so happy
The vitriol directed at child free women is insane. I’ve never seen it happen to child free men…
The first time I had microblading done in it was amazing and a game changer. I went back to the same person to get it done again a few years later and the results were awful. Now I have that grey shadowing below one eyebrow. Definitely don’t recommend it.
Not everyone needs long term therapy and many people benefit from shorter
To be honest I can sort of understand a phone ban if one of your bridesmaids is ready use any issue that pops up at the hens for ‘content.’ One wrong move and she will be labelling you bridezilla and posting about it in salacious detail on the internet!
No one seems to have reacted well here but the fact that the bridesmaid made the choice to post on social media about the fall out speaks volumes about the bridesmaid. I’m sure there are two sides to every story and unfortunately we don’t get to hear the other side so the bridesmaid has essentially initiated a pile on to get people to hate on the bride. I just don’t think that’s the way to treat someone right before their wedding, or at any time.
I’m disappointed that this article doesn’t really
Context is everything, and the comments make so much more sense with the context provided here. Sounds like the episode was edited to be inflammatory.
I'm grateful to this author and to sites like mamamia who share the full reality of birth. Women need to know what can happen and what their choices are.
Maybe you are going through a rough patch right now. I think making a global judgement of 'not a good Mum' is just too harsh. There's still time for things to improve.
All the best to Jessie!! And can someone please tell her to stop being so hard on herself!
Wow, I am not in any group chats where this is happening, I am kind of shocked that this is supposedly a thing women are routinely participating in. I dunno, the friends I have are so busy with all the complexities of life...I just haven't seen this negative commentary crop up at all.
What a great article. As a NICU Mum I really grieved the golden hour. In hindsight I wish I had never heard of the concept of golden hour. It just added to the overwhelm and trauma of the baby being separated from me and being so ill. I love the last line of this article - I also didn't get the golden hour but got my golden boy!!
It's amazing how vicious people on the internet can be. I wish we could just celebrate having choices in how we feed our babies! I mix feed and often feel like I have the best of both worlds.
It's devastating what happened to Japan, those memes are deeply insensitive.