Nothing can prepare you for becoming a first time parent, you can read all the books in the world and speak to as many people as possible but it still won’t give you a true insight until you go through it yourself. That is why I wanted to write Rattles and Battles.  Read more

As soon as you become a parent everyone will be queuing up to tell you how to raise your baby. Well meaning Aunties, Uncles, Grandparents, Mums and Dads will all have the best advice and tell you how they think you should be doing it. Read more

You’ve heard the saying ‘You and whose Army?’ probably when you were in the school playground. It is used as an expression of disbelief in someone’s ability to carry out a threat. Read more

Ah, the pre-child smugness we all feel when we cast our innocent eyes and judgement over parents going about their day, silently thinking ‘I’d never do that with my children’. Read more

I have had the chance to be deployed on a covert Mums’ Army mission and go undercover with a hard-working midwife to ask those questions we really want to ask but are too afraid or embarrassed to. Read more