Should I go back to work or stay home and look after my toddler?
Dear Annalisa I’m on a career break from my job, looking after my two-year-old son – it is due to end in late March. I’m 34…
My husband has become a domestic slave. The Guardian
Dear Annalisa I am writing to ask if you can help me to persuade my husband to do less around the house. I am worried that he…
I got wildly conflicting breastfeeding advice. Published in The Guardian
It was nearly 10 years ago when I had my first child, put her to the breast and discovered it wasn’t going to be as easy…
I got wildly conflicting breastfeeding advice from 12 midwives. The Guardian.
It was nearly 10 years ago when I had my first child, put her to the breast and discovered it wasn’t going to be as easy…
Why I still breastfeed my four year old. The Independent.
In December 2004, I wrote in these pages about how I found myself “still breastfeeding” a 14-month-old, when previously I had viewed “extended breastfeeders” as a…
Rod, I salute your train set. Published in The Guardian.
What a service prejudices can sometimes provide. Rod Stewart is pictured with a copy of Model Railroader in his car and easy headlines are made, “Do…
Yes, we do need to know. Published in The Guardian.
When I was pregnant, caesareans didn’t figure in my thinking. I neither considered nor planned for one: they were for celebrities or women on the verge…
Diary. The New Statesman.
I like to start the week talking about breasts – and thus it was that I did. There we were Monday morning, ten women sitting around…
“Are you STILL breastfeeding?” The Independent.
“Do you remember,” asked my friend Alex as we both indulged in Margheritas two weeks ago, “how you used to say women who did it for…
When breast is worst. Published in The Guardian
For 17 years I had been the owner of a fine pair of breasts that were, in Starbucks talk, grande. So when I became pregnant and…
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