My babies were born in 2019 and 2022. I’m in Australia where we have both public and private hospitals. I had both mine private, and the talk from the hospital was “pretty much all women who birth here have an epidural”. They encouraged breastfeeding, but weren’t at all militant and with my first, encouraged me to…

My husband and I have been fighting over buying a new nightstand since 2016. They’re always so expensive (and so ugly!) for a little table, so we give up and continue to live with the ugly, broken Ikea ones we have. We finally just found these that we’ve agreed on and I can’t wait to assemble them. I’ve never had this…

I’m staunchly shoes off. If anyone questions it, I just say “my toddler licks the floor”. The ONLY people who have every had issue with this rule are my in-laws, who refuse to use the chair we have by the front door and insist on tracking their filthy shoes through the house, over my sons playmat and to sit on my…

For real. I live in an area absolutely full of influencers. My husband and I always get a laugh out of how the “candid” photos they post are the result of a very long shoot that is then followed by lots of Photoshopping.

Oh man. I DO NOT miss her.

Exactly! One of my nephew’s is autistic and while he can definitely be a difficult kid because of that +the tantrums are EXTREME), he is also absolutely fucking brilliant and clever and sweet and full of love, kindness and empathy. Anyone would be lucky to spend time with him.

My husband and I have done two international moves with all of our worldly possessions packed into a shipping container and sent across the ocean. Each time it’s happened, I’ve had the app on my phone to track the ship to see where it was. My biggest fear was my container going overboard (more common than you’d think!)…

I have a c-section scar. It's low, so not visible in any "normal" bikini. It'd be front and centre in that thing.

Oh, this is awful news! I met Mary about five or six years ago and she was a delight. I worked at a performing arts venue and she was performing in one of our festivals. She was an absolute powerhouse, rocked her sequins and was the last to leave the VIP function we held in her honour. Vale.

Our son has refused to sleep in his cot since he was about five months and so we bought a bed for the room that should have been his and my husband moved in there so baby and I have the queen bed to ourswlves. It’s the best sleep he’s had in our relationship as I’m not constantly kicking him because of his snoring,…

This. Honestly, the main thing that stopped my hips and back absolutely killing me was wearing compression tights all the time. I didn't want to look smaller, I just wanted to be able to walk without crying.

My sister worked at a school for severely autistic children. Of note, one of her own children is autistic, but high functioning and able to go to a mainstream school (and be top of his class).

Remember the simple days when the world lost their mind about a baby called Apple?

I used to live in Wellington, and going out to eat without a booking is a very dangerous game onetherr. One night my husband and I went into the city for dinner and spent at least 90 minutes, maybe even two hours, walking around trying to get a table somewhere. We ended up giving up going home and ordering delivery.…

Soooo true! I figured as a mere mortal, she’d be into one MLM from each category to keep all her bases covered and that doTerra would for sure be one of them. Can I also just say that I HATE that my phone automatically did the correct word upper lower case thing for doTerra 🤦

Serious question, had Gwenny been born a mereo mortal like the rest of us, which mlm would she be pedaling?

Totally agree with this. I felt like I had two heads when I was pregnant based on the way people looked at me when I said we didn't know, and nor did we want to, find out the sex of the baby. I realllllly didn't want anyone giving us gendered things and am so glad everything we bought ourselves and got given I'd…

I had a c-section as my baby was never coming out the usual way and I used hypnobirthing techniques to get through that and they truly helped. I started having a massive panic attack with all of the tugging but remembered what I'd learnt and managed to calm down by breathing properly.

This is exactly it. There's several different ads as part of this campaign, where people find themselves in an awkward/shitty situation and then say "did someone say KFC". Cut to everyone eating KFC and being happy. One example is a couple on the honeymoon finding that the hotel is full of Schoolies (Spring Breakers)…

Gender reveal parties annoy me and I can't be friends with people who have them. If they're tacked onto a baby shower, cool, whatever, but no need for a party or a stupid stunt to celebrate some genitals. My “official” gender reveal was when my baby was pulled out of my womb and my doctor said IT’S A BOY however I…