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Witching Hour Awareness

written by Lauren

Next time you’re having a cuppa and a biscuit with your feet up at the end of a long day, spare a thought for your brothers and sisters in arms, who are popping panadol and muttering “you love them, you shouldn’t kill them” under their breath over and over.

It is the great divide between the breeders and the childless in society….The witching hour(s).

Blissfully unaware non-parents will spend the hours between 4pm and 7pm wrapping up a few things at work, heading home for dinner, or perhaps even heading out to meet up with friends for a jolly laugh and a beverage or four. They’re looking forward to seeing their partner and having an intimate chat about the day, maybe also about politics and their life dreams…. The day is done, they’re ready for some fun. The biggest wrinkle in their afternoon will be battling traffic to get home.

March 19, 2015

We need to admit that becoming a mum is tough

written by Lauren

Do you remember the first few weeks of being a parent?

Do you remember what you were thinking? How you were feeling?

Were you overwhelmed with love the second you saw your baby? Or did you look at that screaming, squashed-up, purple face and think, “Holy shit, this is SO IRREVERSIBLE.”

Or is it all a blur because Mother Nature, that tricky bitch, makes us go a bit soft in the head so we forget the horror and go back for child number two? Honestly, if we were fully lucid during the child-bearing years, civilisation would’ve died out. But, somehow, we survive on exactly zero sleep, we look permanently horrendous, we deal with oceans of poo and survive years of heinous, epic tantrums… and we love it.