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Finding Mama’s Mojo
This week is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. I’ll be starting an exciting new series tomorrow on the blog: getting to...
Anya Hayes
May 4, 20173 min read
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Pregnancy: the Naked Truth
Pregnancy is a bit like the parties you used to go to when you were 15: exhilaratingly new and exciting, full of unknown adventures – a...
Anya Hayes
Apr 28, 20172 min read
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The long kiss…hello
Sometimes having children can be like watching a time-lapse video. It takes my breath away how quickly phases seem to have passed in...
Anya Hayes
Apr 24, 20174 min read
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Who’s that girl?
The subject of identity keeps poking its little head out of mouse holes at me a lot recently. The idea of who we are once we’ve had...
Anya Hayes
Apr 23, 20175 min read
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Things I’ve learnt
Freddie is now 2 years old. 2 YEARS OLD. Well, 2 and a quarter, if we’re being pedantic. I’ve learnt that with a 5 year old and a toddler...
Anya Hayes
Apr 17, 20173 min read
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Look for the light
Mums often talk about being in “survival mode” in the first years of motherhood. Of battening down the hatches to get through the days...
Anya Hayes
Mar 28, 20172 min read
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The Supermum Myth
And then, I have a week like this week which offered me a new perspective on that Supermum assumption. Yesterday I feel like I had a...
Anya Hayes
Mar 18, 20173 min read
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The Mum-me balance
When I lived in Japan nearly 20 years ago (eek!), the local stray cat – who we had named Josephina – one evening roamed into our...
Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20173 min read
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The A game
Anxiety. The monkey that sits atop our shoulder, wriggling and jiggling, weighing down and informing thoughts, which become our...
Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20173 min read
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