A journey through life, love and motherhood.

Ten weeks ago I gave birth to a happy, healthy baby girl. It was a planned pregnancy and my partner and I felt more than ready to begin the adventure that is parenthood. We are both in our early 30s, we have a mortgage, stable jobs and a high maintenance dog (our parenting practice run, if you will). The logical next step was to add a bouncing baby to the mix. Only I’ve now realised that it is virtually impossible to be ready to be a parent. Sure, you can stock up on dummies

Well, it finally happened. The day I’d been hoping for and dreaming of for months came… I’m pregnant! It happened at the end of the school term last year. I was feeling particularly crazy and emotional during my last week of school, crying at random songs, freaking out about tiny, insignificant things... but I’d just chalked it up to the stress of finishing up for the year, moving classrooms and saying goodbye to my gorgeous class. It wasn’t until the last Friday of term whe