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.

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