It’s World Breastfeeding Week, which means the annual flood of articles and advertorials which paint breastfeeding in a negative light is in peak flow. You’ll never hear as much about mastitis, low supply, cracked nipples, and sleep deprivation as you... Continue Reading →
Update: since publishing this article a number of women have contacted me to say that they would love to 'have the courage' to share this article on their personal social media page, the birth and breastfeeding groups that they are... Continue Reading →
An unexpected side effect of COVID-19 appears to be that biological sex is both real and mentionable again! Who'd have thunk it! It is becoming clear from global patterns of disease morbidity and mortality that men... Continue Reading →
Making global headlines last week was news from the USA that a Cleveland fertility clinic had announced the birth of a baby following a uterus transplant from a deceased 'donor', the first such successful birth in North America. According to... Continue Reading →
Every now and then (ok, probably much more often than that!) something comes along and makes me wonder if I'm living in a parallel universe. Yesterday, it was a post popping up on my feed from The Milk Meg, hosted... Continue Reading →
There's no shortage of commentary about Mother's Day and I'm about to add a bit more. I write this sitting in my bed on Mother's Day morning. Birds are singing, the skies are blue, sun is streaming through the window,... Continue Reading →