When I accidentally taught my then two-year-old daughter to swear I assumed that I was a terrible mother. I’d been doing so well to curb my potty mouth inclinations – I replaced my usual ‘go-to’ curse words with baby-friendly exclamations like “crab sticks” and “wally beans” (surprisingly effective, actually) and fought the urge to yell […]
Serena Williams came out of the motherhood gate pushing hard. She was determined to return to form super quickly after her textbook pregnancy and hoped (as we all do!) that birth would be a breeze. Turns out the best-laid plans are often waylaid by babies and bodies, and baby Alexis Olympia’s birth changed everything up […]
Okay. Look. We KNOW this is a bit cheeky. We KNOW feelings might have been hurt. But honestly? We totally GET why this mum spent a gleeful hour or so tweeting unusual names plucked from her son’s Junior High yearbook. While many of these names are probably fine in isolation, when examined as a group […]
Carrie Bickmore’s been facing a curly conversation with her three-year-old daughter Evie, with the preschooler very keen to know how exactly how her future sibling ended up in her mum’s tummy.