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Everything you never realised you really wanted to know… I give blood regularly. As a midwife, I’ve seen how quickly and devastatingly a woman can lose half her circulating volume. Plus I have great veins which you can see from space, and iron levels so good it’s amazing I can ever get through airport security…
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It’s not me, it’s the computer gremlins I consider myself a mostly reasonable and rational person. I don’t have a problem living with my black cat, she’s crossed my path a gazillion times; I’ve walked under many ladders without fear of mishap; I’ve sat at tables of 13 without incurring catastrophes; I have never felt the…
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How depleted oestrogen levels allow us to reset unattainably high Christmas standards to something more achievable It’s December. Again. Christmas is around the corner and my ageing, menopausal brain is slowly and unwillingly kicking into seasonal action. Luckily years of practice and a tried-and-tested spreadsheet means I’ll be ok. I feel kinda smug because I…
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Here’s what you actually need to know… From a midwife who has your back. It has ever been the case that women have been watched, judged, and found wanting. But it’s next level big-brothering for pregnant women. Look, I know it mostly comes from a good place. Because we care. And it’s true that when…
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Become good friends Halloween just came and went! Firstborn Son and Middle Child are too old for trick-or-treating but Only Daughter is not. We spent a companiable evening gutting and carving five pumpkins the night before. On the day, she applied ghoulish face paint and went around the neighbourhood begging for sweets. I illuminated our…
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I just wrote a new post for my blog, Midwifemotherme.com I’m a French mid-life, midwife, brought up in London, mother to three kids (affectionately known in my posts as Firstborn Son, Middle Child, and Only Daughter) I try to make sense of the world drawing on my 25 years of midwifery and motherhood. I definitely…
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Nobody tells you you’re a bit hard of hearing… They might be thinking it, but it isn’t polite to mention it. Apart from your honest-to-a-fault kids. But with them, you’ve been practicing selective deafness for years. They can’t hear you (https://midwifemotherme.com/2024/06/23/never-stop-nagging/). You can’t hear them, but if you had to guess, they are hungry, bored…
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Middle Child is going to University! 2 years ago, in one of my first posts, I wrote about Firstborn Son leaving home. Like everything about the second child, I suspect this transition is going to be the same but different, some things easier, some harder, but none of them quite as bewildering. Let’s go back…
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