Social Services vs. actual support Pt. 2
So earlier today I wrote a post about the problems we’d been having with social services, I’ve already got more to add to it. In this one I’m going to talk about how health visitors …
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Social Services vs. actual support
I’ve been a little quiet lately, thought I should explain what has been going on. Especially as I am very angry and need to get this off my chest. We have been referred to Social Services, this …
Neglectful mother
I’m sorry, for those of you following me for plus size fashion and art, this is a departure. Some of you have followed me a while though and will know a little about my daughter, born 10 weeks p…
Guest Post: Guilty until proven healthy
This is a guest post written by my husband. – MoG The following is written not by a reactionary, or a devoted fan of a former lib dem MP. I think social services is a generally hard working and …
My c-section story
Just read this beautiful article on caesarean births., and wanted to share my own story.
Today is the 24th of January, a spectacularly uninteresting day to many I imagine. For me it was the start of a traumatic experience, an experience that is still ongoing, but there is finally a light…
A 2014 recap: Puking, parenting, pain and feminism
It has been an interesting year, thought I’d go through it with some blog posts. Started the year puking, while technically this is a post from last December, it is exactly how January started f…
Guest post for World Prematurity Day: If you’re going through hell, keep going
“If you’re going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill.
Monday 17th November 2014 is World Prematurity Day, a day for talking about around 15 million babies born prematurely worldwide. My daughter is one of them, and while I was aware of premature babies…
A mother who is still not a mother
Some of you may not have read my previous post on this, if you haven’t then it’s probably best you do so you understand the context of this. What I’m about to write will probably gar…
