THE dream stuck with me the following day. I went into labour, not knowing I was pregnant and gave birth to a premature s/he with a full set of teeth and no right hand. S/he gazed adoringly at me and I felt a queasy mixture of distrust, passion and commitment. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Parenting
A moment for mummy
I’VE been running on the Mummy Treadmill. Do you have one? Where you only sit still if you’re nursing a baby or folding the washing? It occured to me… alright it didn’t “occur to me” so much as someone pointed it out to me (hi P&J!)… that I don’t stop running. I’m … Continue reading
Cover girl crisis
ALL it takes to settle an ethical argument is to put it into practice. I discovered this on the weekend in a horrible photo session. Between Deborah Hutton appearing naked on cover of The Australian Women’s Weekly and Bianca Wordley baring her post-baby body to the world and the Nine … Continue reading →