Tag: pregnancy

Teen mum: fitting in, at last

It’s a wryly funny and notable thing that sometimes, within a phase of my life, I have become suddenly and almost poignantly aware that I am living through a time that will become one of my best memories. I don’t mean a day or a week, like a wedding...

Twenties, and living for motherhood

I moved through my 20s ferociously and at a speed which is at once blurry-fast and treacle-slow in my memory. With my husband by my side I finished university, got my degree, got a better job. My husband was promoted.   We bought a little house we could barely afford...

Teenage motherhood: struggling, succeeding

It was incredible to me, the way that being responsible for another human being before I was even an adult myself gave me such instant, pin-sharp focus. I had been drifting in a lazy way about the task of learning to drive; no longer. Within 3 months of my...