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Published on November 21, 2016 in AboutFull resolution (1280 × 960)

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Empowered. Excited. Confident. Calm. • Trust in your body. Trust in birth 🥰 • But it’s not just that easy right?! • Wing motherhood... we all are doing that - but don’t just wing it for your birth. You deserve so much more than that! • Here’s to you 🥂 • 📸: by the fabulous @doulabud

This woman doesn’t appear on here very often - my mum 💞 • Forever by my side. Endlessly supporting me in every way. With a hug that brings comfort like nobody elses. My children adore her as she knows and appreciates them to their very core. • Last night she treated me to see my favourite ballet @newwimbledontheatre and it didn’t disappoint @matthewbourne13! Thank you for a magical evening. And the best part about it... quality time with my mum that wasn’t about logistics of everyday life. Just pure escapism. • Women supporting women & motherhood... I really am learning from the best there is 💞

Multi-tasking... that’s what we all claim to be better at than the male species right!? Obvs. • But what if it’s gone a bit too far? I mean, sometimes you can be all so consumed with the todo list, that you fail to soak up any of the magic around you. You miss it. • I know I find myself ploughing through a million and one things at once and not actually asserting myself to anything in the way that I’d want to, or failing to find the joy in things because I make more of a juggle for myself. • I see it with partners in the birth space. • I see it with parents on their phones whilst talking to / playing with their kids. • I see it with drivers on their phones at traffic lights. • I see it at family functions doing chores instead of enjoying quality time together. • I think mindfulness became such a buzz word that it’s almost lost its meaning! But to do something in a mindful way - to really be absorbed in it, to feel it, soak it up, concentrate on it and to give your all to it can actually be a quicker way to cross something off your todo list and get a higher level of satisfaction from it. • I mean how many times do you realise you’ve been ‘doing’ five things and actually not finished one?! • There’s nothing worse than having a conversation with someone who isn’t listening, or to be doing something with someone who is distracted. • Try stripping it all back... set your intention with what you want to accomplish and make that happen. Then tick it off and move on. • Don’t be the distracted, half arsed version of yourself for you or your children. You’re more than that and you don’t want to miss the magic ❤️

My gang ❤️ • A weekend of family joy this end celebrating my nephew’s christening. So gorgeous to see everyone, but always too fleeting. Safe to say we’re all pooped and we left the house in carnage after week one of Easter, so excited to actually get a bit more in control today 🤪 • Family time + kids on form + new dress = weekend win 👏👊❤️ • This can be my #whatmamaworemonday for the gorgeous @heyitsromeca & @stylemotherbeat as I’m firmly back to mum comfies & dry shampoo today!! • Happy Monday y’all! 👊

It still absolutely blows my mind!!! • Our bodies grow, birth & then produce everything a newborn baby needs to survive! 🤯 • This is the longest I’ve breastfed any of my babies. Did you know the WHO recommend two years? I have to say I totally didn’t know with my other two, I just had six months in my head which is what the NHS bang on about. So I just fed until it felt like a natural end for us and that’s what I’m doing again. • All I do know is after struggling with allergies and a immature tummy when he was born, it just feels right for me to be giving him all the goodness that my body can make, whilst offering limitless comfort. • And I guess what we need to remember is it’s NORMAL to breastfeed. It’s the most natural thing in the world. And with natural I don’t mean easy. It can be painful, exhausting, lonely and can seem damn right relentless. • I mean, I love some of the glamorous images you find on here, but it doesn’t feel all that beautiful when I’m at a birth for hours on end and the pain from engorged breasts is so overwhelming that I grab spare minutes when I can and hand express down the loo. • BUT it is what we were made to do and I just wish that everyone who wanted to breastfeed could seek the support they need. There are so many fabulous accounts on here (tagged a few) - reach out if you need them 🥰 • PS. You’re bloody amazing!

The third baby with whom I’m spending my days walking over this bridge with. The hours I must have clocked up, just walking hand in hand on this bridge which each of my stumbly babies. • Sometimes it’s the every day things that make you stop and realise reality. I have been lucky enough to birth three babies and my number one job is being their mum. I don’t take that for granted for one millisecond and I consider it an absolute privilege! I am so fortunate. I am so grateful and my heart is so fucking full! ❤️ • Thanks for the 📸 @thedaviesbrown 😘

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