Posted on July 21, 2019
by Christielee
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Looking back on this photo brought back so many memories of those first few months as a mother, the fear, the love and the excruciating pain I went through every single feed. I was told breastfeeding was going to be the most natural thing… Continue Reading “Breast is not always best.”
Category: Health & Wellness, ParentingTags: #breastfed, #breastfeeding, #empoweringwomen, #formula, #mentalhealth, #mentalhealthawareness, #motherhoodunplugged, #mumblogger, #mummyblogger, #mumthatsabadword, #newborn, #parenthoodunplugged, #pnd, #postnataldepression, #pregnancy, Parenting
Posted on July 18, 2019
by Christielee
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Trigger warning sexual abuse mentioned* The first time a man took my power away I was just 7 years old, he was someone I loved and trusted and looked up to. But he is just a boy. He has his whole life ahead of… Continue Reading “I was just 7 years old when he took my power Away.”
Category: Health & Wellness, ParentingTags: #abusesurvivor, #addictions, #alcoholabuse, #bodyconfidence, #childsexualabuse, #empowered, #empoweringwomen, #ibelieveyou, #mentalhealth, #mentalhealthawareness, #metoo, #motherhoodunplugged, #mummyblogger, #rapeculture, #selflove, #sexualabuse, #sexualabuseawareness, #singlemum
Posted on January 24, 2019
by Christielee
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I had a conversation today and whilst I was standing there chatting away about a fence my mate quite indiscreetly adjusted himself a few times to get his balls to sit nicely in order to be comfortable… We kept chatting and once again he… Continue Reading “It’s my vagina and I can scratch if I want to!”
Category: ParentingTags: #empoweringwomen, #equality, #equalrights, #girltalk, #life, #motherhoodunplugged, #mummyblogger, #mumthatsabadword, #realtalk, #sisterhood, #vagina, #vajayjay
Posted on December 1, 2018
by Christielee
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A few days back my daughters friend came home and told her mother, a close friend of mine, that at the year 6 formal that if a boy asks a girl to dance with them that they should not say no because it could… Continue Reading “Consent matters, we have the right to say NO!!”
Category: ParentingTags: #blog, #children, #consent, #consentmatters, #empowered, #empoweringwomen, #girltalk, #motherhoodunplugged, #mummyblog, #mumslife, #mumthatsabadword, #parentingkids, #raisingchildren, #raisinggirls, #singlemum, Parenting
Posted on November 20, 2018
by Christielee
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Motherhood can get so fucking lonely! There, I said it! How often I get asked ‘but you have 4 kids, how can you feel lonely?! Whether I had 1, 4 or 45 kids the loneliness is not about being alone mums are never really… Continue Reading “Motherhood can be so lonely.”
Category: ParentingTags: #blog, #children, #empoweringmums, #empoweringwomen, #kids, #lonely, #mentalhealthawareness, #motherhood, #motherhoodunplugged, #mum, #mummyblog, #mummyblogger, #mumthatsabadword, #raisingchildren, #singlemum, #soleparent, #womensupportingwomen