I’m currently 21 weeks pregnant, but this is the post I wrote at 18 weeks pregnant… I’m still playing catch-up as I wanted to blog every part of my pregnancy story, from he very beginning. If you missed any weeks, tap the button that says “single pregnancy” on the menu above, to find all the other […]
Mental health
14 Weeks Pregnant: Lonely single mum syndrome
I’m now 18 weeks pregnant, but this is the post I wrote at 14 weeks pregnant. I am no longer in contact with SD… I’m back in that dark place where all I want to do is cry, but I don’t want to upset the baby growing inside me. I am never going to get […]
Dear Emma: You can get through this…
Sometimes in life, it is easy to get swept up in a world, where you listen to snap judgements that people make about you, without really getting to know you. Gossip, rumours, “banter” and nasty things people say, can start to get under your skin after a while and you start to believe them. In […]
Rough and lumpy times: Trying to stay positive
A lot of things have happened lately. Bad things. Life-changing things. Some of those things I’ve shared privately on Facebook. One of those things I will share on here. But there are some things which I can’t share, not even here on my blog. Not even with my best friend, because he went AWOL on […]
Does technology make us lonely and needy?
I just read a transcript from a talk at TED by Sherry Turkle and it both fascinated me and resonated deeply with some of my own emotional struggles. I felt compelled to blog about it straight away. It was all about the impact of technology on real life relationships. How we all love to receive […]