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helsbells August 29, 2023

Thank you for this article. I will be sharing this as much as I can as correct information is so important. 

helsbells July 22, 2023

The power of music and lyrics is an amazing thing. My mum has advanced dementia and often can’t put a sentence together most days but we put on the Beatles for her and she can sing along. Those lyrics still live in her brain despite so much else being lost. 

helsbells May 2, 2023

Couldn’t agree more. I was really hoping to see an AOC “Tax The Rich” moment on the red carpet. Perhaps a curvy woman wearing a rainbow dress with #metoo emblazoned on it. 

helsbells February 2, 2023

I am so with you on the cake thing! The best part about not having a cake is you get to avoid the ridiculous cake cutting photos, I mean who holds hands a cuts a fricking cake?!?!?!? I still regret giving into the photographer and participating in this ridiculous tradition. 

helsbells April 21, 2022

I had extreme difficulty breastfeeding but was continually bullied into it by what felt like everyone.  I even had someone in the Australian Breastfeeding association hotline berate me because I had given my son a bottle (of breast milk)  because I was so stressed my milk wouldn’t let down and he was a terrible latcher. 

I battled on for 10 months and the day I gave up was the most liberating day of my life. I was not sad, I was relieved.
I often joke that I was unable to have a second child because the universe knew if I did and someone tried to make me breastfeed I would have punched them in the face.