Self sufficient two week olds, male pregnancies and delayed implantation: What humans can learn from the animal kingdom

I thought Blue Planet would provide some light relief from my long, baby-filled days. I thought the pretty fish would be soothing. The last thing I expected was to develop some kind of species envy and suddenly wish I was a sperm whale. Sperm whale babies don’t climb up on their cot bars and stand …

Stop changing the fucking clocks

I'd like to just set one thing straight. The clocks changing does not give anyone an 'extra' hour in bed. There are not suddenly 25 hours in the day. If you want an extra hour in bed it might occur to you to just have an early night. I don't see why the entire country …

The clueless woman’s hospital bag

Here's the thing. In NCT classes and in your trusty pregnancy books, there will be a number of handy guides for what to bring to hospital, and other 'essentials'. While kind of useful, I nevertheless found myself alone in a postnatal ward with an enormous suitcase, packed to the brim with shit I did not …