‘I couldn’t fit in a public loo: everything’s harder with two babies at once’
“I didn’t even go to baby classes and meetups for new mums because they had a ‘no prams inside’ rule.”
Parenting
The last photo I took of my daughter before she almost drowned
“Even now, a couple of years later, it triggers feelings of guilt and remorse… Looking back, I wonder what the hell we were thinking.”
A stranger took a photo of my toddler with his pants down
“I think it was meant to be innocent, because why else would he send it to me? But others don’t agree.”
‘I’m almost 45 and I desperately want to have another baby’
“I feel like there has been a huge hole in my life.”
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