LouAlexa's Blog

So today I’ve had yet another morning of dragging my reluctanant 5-year-old through the school gates. She’s still going through a particularly clingy phase, and tells me frequently between 7 – 8.50 eachmorning ‘Mummy, you are my best friend’ in hope they’re the magic words to bag her a day off school. My response is the same each morning. I give her a hug, tell her I love her, then...

Between Hollywood and old wives’ tales, there’s a lot of misleading information about childbirth out there. But until you’ve been through it, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction. I’ve had three children, all natural deliveries. Two induced, one spontaneous labour, each experience different. So thought I’d clear up a few myths and expectations and tell it like it is based on my...