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No matter how many pals or sisters who have gone through it before you, nothing can really prepare…
By Lauren Heskin
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It turns out that having a baby is a lot like life: you never know how you’ll react…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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Rosemary MacCabe’s baby boy has a usually sunny disposition, which makes it all the more worrying when he…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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In the days that followed the arrival of her baby boy, Hannah-Louise dreamed of coffee. Whether it was…
By Hannah-Louise Dunne
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A Dermot Kennedy concert in Indiana throws Rosemary MacCabe into the throes of mothering comparison as a woman…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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Rosemary’s breastfeeding ‘journey’ starts off well and feels, in a way, like a compensation for having a C-section…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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Rosemary MacCabe never feared death, at least for its own sake. But it’s only since becoming a mother…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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Rosemary MacCabe has always been a fan of air travel. The brown noise, mini pretzels, hours to read…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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It’s sleepless in suburbia for Hannah Louise and her husband as they try to adapt to their newborn.…
By Hannah-Louise Dunne
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Failing as a parent is a new kind of failure. In the first 6 months of a new…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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'There is something bizarre about cutting a woman open, handing her a baby…and sending her home,' thinks Rosemary…
By Rosemary MacCabe
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In the early days of her pregnancy, Rosemary Mac Cabe wrote a birth plan. It’s safe to say…
By Rosemary MacCabe
