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Family Eco Swaps
What stuck and what hasn't when we attempted to limit the environmental impact after having a child.
 • Kylie-Ann
Failing at Motherhood
and why we need to stop telling people it gets easier.
 • Kylie-Ann
The Question of a Third
My feelings about having another baby
 • Kylie-Ann
Has Motherhood Killed My Friendships?
and how I worry my experiences will affect my sons
 • Kylie-Ann
Did We Bring This on Ourselves?
On a self-inflicted isolation and other parenting hypocrisies.
 • Kylie-Ann
My Children Bore Me
Does that make me a terrible mother?
 • Kylie-Ann
I'm a bad mother
when I'm due my period. Every month is the same: emotional outbursts make me feel like a terrible mother, a dark cloud hangs over the week leading up to…
 • Kylie-Ann
Good Births aren't just for Positive People
Trust me.
 • Kylie-Ann
A Year with Two
On the anniversary of my second son’s birth, I consider what I have learned from a year with two children.
 • Kylie-Ann
Breastfeeding Revisited
As World Breastfeeding Week rolls around again, here is an honest account of my experiences breastfeeding and how having an easier time the second time…
 • Kylie-Ann
My Breastfeeding Failure
From the archive, a piece where I reflect on the difficulties of my first breastfeeding journey.
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