Our big blended family

pregnant was as easy as one, two, three… bered! F alling Claudia Novek, 30

I’d lost my husband but I knew he was with me every step of the way

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

Being a mum to my four sons is what I am most proud of in life. When Ben was born in April 1983, I never dreamt I’d be lucky enough to have three more boys, though, as my first experience of motherhoo

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

When Jade woke up in a nightmare there was far more horror to come…