My 4yo daughter at the march in Shipley, West Yorkshire. Town of about 15,000 and turnout was ~1,200. She wanted to make sure she would still be able to be the boss when she’s older. She and I are both dual US/UK citizens so definitely have some skin in this game.

These things are a dime a dozen in my hood, they go for like a tenner - everyone has one! Maybe I should setup an exporting business?

My 2.5 year old daughter's accent is inexplicable - we live in Yorkshire, England, my husband is a Yorkshireman, I'm from Chicago, and her childminder is from Prague. Kiddo pronounces each word in a sentence in a different accent, we have no idea how her way of speaking is going to pan out. Are we in for elocution…

You never know when it's good enough - I guess you just have to figure out what level of regret you are prepared to live with if it turns out you have kids and you didn't get to do x, y and z. Having kids doesn't preclude you from running marathons (OK your partner will need to be around to watch them while you…

I live close to the route for the opening day of the Tour de France in Yorkshire, and there are days when I'm driving downhill with hairpin turns and then have to slam on my brakes because there'll be a group of sheep having a watercooler chat in the middle of the road looking at you like 'WTF is your problem?'. Then…

I have a crush on a particular celeb which is heightened when I'm pregnant (hormones, duh), but between last pregnancy and this one I found out that my brother-in-law is friends with said crush's parents, and they see this actor a couple of times a year and have known him since he was a kid. I am SO glad I never told…

My family live pretty close to Oak Lawn... hmmm, my sister + her friends + a couple of pitchers of beer + this article = SIP gon' wanna shut down just to get the abuse to stop. I know two wrongs don't make a right but when the fight is handed to you on a platter like this, it's tempting. Sis and her friends would take…

I'm finally in the 1%!

Pyrax below got it - these are like CCTV cameras that we use as a baby monitor. It's half the price of a regular baby monitor and you can monitor baby from a web browser, free smartphone app, etc. It's nice if my husband or I are ever out (ha ha ha never happens and never together) we can watch her from our phones.

We have one of these Foscam IP cameras setup in our daughter's room and we have dozens of photos like this one where she just happened to be looking at the camera in a particular way at a particular time. They are freaky as hell and so by taking the pic and going 'hey isn't this funny?' it takes away some of the…

I wonder if there's a breakdown of where the shortages are most acute (obvs London, just wondering where elsewhere it's mostly being felt). I had a baby 2 years ago and the hospital seemed to be full to the gills with midwives, we're expecting again later this year and all of the same midwives are working there and…

It's taking me a long time to adjust to this - my daughter turned 2 a few days ago and I am juuuust now coming to terms with what 'clean' means nowadays.

Is there anyone here who's had a really long, no-drugs labour *and* also ran a marathon? Just wondering which was worse.

I felt the same way when I read it, my first thought was 'sure you did, Lindsay'. I don't know why, she's just the ultimate girl who cried wolf to me. If she did, it's not a nice thing to go through (I've had two - one was very uneventful, one landed me in the hospital). I want to root for her but she makes it so hard.

This times a million once you have kids. I am in a constant state of despair at the state of my house, I clean it 3-4x a day and it still looks awful (to me). But I go to my friends' houses with kids and I have never once noticed and/or thought 'hmm, could do with a bit of tidying in here...'. They talk about what a…

I read that in Italian law the woman who gives birth to the child(ren) is considered the mother and the biological parents have no rights in this case. Ugh.

Our childminder is on holiday for two weeks so my husband is off this week looking after her. I went downstairs (I work from home) about two hours ago and he'd made a big football goal out of every bit of play dough in the house, lined up all of our daughter's soft toys and animals as goalies and made her try to kick…

I revel in small acts of revenge.

FWIW the chicken pox vaccine isn't given as routine in the UK, but they will give it if someone in the household is immunocompromised. Our daughter gets all routine vaccinations but I'm totally fine with her not having the chicken pox vax. As it turned out she got it at 10 months anyway so done and dusted for now. …

My husband hates when these kinds of ads are on TV (for OKCupid, Match.com etc). He says things like, 'Who wants to be with someone just like themselves? Who wants their partner to be their best friend? Really, you want to fuck your best friend?' I know what he's saying and I get the gist of what he means. The…