A Mile in My Shoes

What a weird fucking year 2020 was. Sometimes, when I think back to proper lockdown, back in March and April, it feels a bit hazy and dis...

Tuesday 16th August 2016 My last words when Leaving Mumbai were 'onwards to Gorgeous Goa' and that's definitely how I remembered it from ...

Saturday 13th August 2016 The guidebooks warn travelers of Mumbai's enormity, its traffic and its vast numbers of people. It's a fast pac...

Wednesday 10th August 2016 B is for Bundi. Brilliantly blue and beautiful beaming smiles! On Monday, the rain came. Thick and fast and he...

Sunday 7th August 2016 From Agra we took a Chair Class train and travelled like Kings and Queens to Jaipur. Train wallahs brought us chai...

Saturday 7th August 2016, 7:20pm Like the false preconceptions I had about the location of Niagra Falls (that I'd have to hike though nat...

Thursday 5th August 2016, 9:50pm D is for Delhi. Dazzling sights, dusty roads and dangerous driving! "I've been driving for 28 years," Ra...

This is the eleventh and final lockdown baby story in the series and an extra special one for several reasons. This is the story of my co...

There is so much courage in Reanne’s story, who felt very anxious and alone when she first went in to hospital to be induced with baby Ch...

After a long and difficult birth, resulting in a Strep B infection and emergency C-section, Sarah was relieved to finally hold their heal...

Reggie was born a few weeks before lockdown, and when the official announcement was made, Ieashia felt completely cut off from some essen...

Zoe’s baby girl, Annabelle, was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate. They have had quite a journey as a family in her short little lif...

A rainbow baby is a term used to refer to a baby born following a miscarriage or stillbirth. Subsequent pregnancies can bring mixed emoti...

Elizabeth’s daughter was born the day that the national lockdown was announced. In her story, she highlights the sacrifices many families...

In Theresa’s story, she talks about how after a complicated birth, she actually grew to enjoy the time alone to bond with her baby withou...

In Rebecca’s story, she talks about the anxiety she felt before, during and immediately after the birth of her baby because of Covid-19, ...

Today should have been baby Billy’s due date, but he arrived almost eight weeks early back in the middle of June. Holly shares her very e...

Second time mother Katherine talks about the different struggles she encountered whilst being pregnant during the pandemic; from looking ...

In the first of the Lockdown Babies Series, Jude shares how her romantic visions of maternity leave were taken away from her as soon as l...

Following the theme of sustainability and babies, my other favourite eco switch this year has been our switch to cloth baby wipes. We had...