The decisions we make around our parenting are deeply influenced by our own childhoods, both by the things we perceived as positive and by the fears we carried as children. How many times have we found ourselves overprotecting our children because of our own fears? How many of our actions are reflections of our own childhood projected onto our children? Motherhood and fatherhood stir an endless range of emotions and feelings that rise to the surface from the very moment pregn

The perfect mum does not exist. We are surrounded by social media, books, specialists and people telling us what a mother should be like. There are no perfect mums, only real mums. Real mums who, despite not having slept properly in a very long time, still wake up full of love to breastfeed or prepare a bottle. Some tired mums become overwhelmed, who cry or raise their voices, and yet still carry on singing nursery rhymes to their children. Mums who feel guilty much of the ti