The truth about being a ‘second mum’

IT was only Tuesday, and Jane was already missing the twins like mad. She gazed at yesterday’s photo on her phone. The two little girls all dressed up in their new blue uniforms and standing in the pl

WHEN Dad said that he and Kirsty were having a baby, I was surprised. Mum had always described Kirsty as “a career woman” and, when I asked her what that meant, she said Kirsty was very focused on her

Hunched over the toilet, I just wanted the awful feeling to be over. I’d never felt so nauseous and drained. ‘It wasn’t like this before,’ I cried to my partner Michael, then 37. After all, I had plen

For 17 years Karla has had a bun in her oven…

I’m fine, Aunt Lena. Honestly, you don’t need to worry,” Jada said, putting Ella’s bottle down on the coffee table before lifting the three-month-old onto her shoulder, where a muslin square was alrea

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