Category: Motherhood

I Am Not Your Baby Mother: ‘Black mothers’ lives still don’t matter. But at least I’m still alive to tell you that’

Feb 25, 2021 | #NotNeurotic, Books, Motherhood

Extract from I Am Not Your Baby Mother, by Candice Brathwaite (+ BOOK GIVEAWAY) In the lead up to...

PMSL: ‘Incontinence is dismissed as a natural part of being a woman’

Dec 1, 2020 | Books, Motherhood

Q&A with Luce Brett, author of PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and...

Tokophobia: ‘Anxious and terrified, but too pregnant for mental health support’

Nov 12, 2020 | Motherhood

Guest post by Laura Cooke The sound of the labouring woman’s bellows of pain echoed down the...

Miscarriage: ‘I have never felt so alone as I did at that moment’

Oct 5, 2020 | #BlackWomensHealthMatters, Motherhood

Guest post by Brenda Gabriel. Content warning: miscarriage and racial bias The writer of this...

The Motherhood Group: Black mums need more support before, during and after birth

Oct 1, 2020 | #BlackWomensHealthMatters, Motherhood

Q&A with Sandra Igwe, founder of The Motherhood Group, during Black Maternal Mental Health...

#FivexMore: ‘Black women are not listened to in labour, and our pain is not taken seriously’

Sep 16, 2020 | #BlackWomensHealthMatters, Motherhood

Q&A with Tinuke Awe, co-founder of the #FivexMore campaign, to mark the UK’s first Black...

‘I said I needed to push, but the midwife did not believe me’

Sep 10, 2019 | Motherhood

Guest post by Keshet Buckle-Hodgson The most significant events I have experienced as a woman have...

Give Birth Like A Feminist: ‘women should feel like they’re in the driving seat’

Aug 21, 2019 | Books, Motherhood

Q&A with Milli Hill, author of Give Birth Like a Feminist Published on 22 August, Give Birth...

‘The fight is as hard as the illness’: battling with postpartum thyroiditis

Apr 24, 2019 | Motherhood

Guest post by Jenny Allen I am finding it gradually harder to write about my experience with...

‘Death means we believe you now’: dismissed as a neurotic mother

Mar 30, 2019 | Motherhood

Guest post by Clare Norton. Content warning: baby loss and bereavement Ahead of Mothers’ Day,...

‘Minimising, infantilising and dismissive’: the language of childbirth

Mar 29, 2019 | Books, Motherhood

Guest post by writer Rebecca Schiller, co-founder of Birthrights (the human rights in childbirth...

‘An overanxious mother and a hypochondriac daughter’: chronic illness post-HPV vaccine

Nov 28, 2018 | Motherhood, Physical Health

I wasted three years of my life being discarded by healthcare professionals, all because I was a teenage girl with a worried mother and a hard to diagnose illness.

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