‘i became stepmum to 8 children!’

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

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

Holding my first grandbaby, I knew I had to make a big change

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…

Three women express their gratitude towards the unsung heroes who changed their lives for the better