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If I were ever invited on Desert Island Discs, it may take me a long time to choose the eight pieces of music I’d want to soundtrack my isolation, but the book selection would be a doddle: the Oxford English Dictionary. There is nothing as emotive as words, you see, and so if I’m to [...]

I am not an expert, but I would like to be. At the time of writing, I am 35 weeks and 3 days pregnant. If possible, I would give you the count not just in weeks and days but in hours and minutes too. I wish I could know that kind of detail because, in [...]

Boobs have never been a problem for me. It’s not that I think mine are fantastic, just that they’re neither big enough to attract attention nor small enough to incur mockery (apart from from my brother, but that’s only to be expected from a boy who’d pin me to the floor and drool a sinewy [...]

One of the most popular articles submitted to Family Vie in recent weeks has been Me, The Man & The Baby’s (MTM&TB) post re homebirth. Having had her first child at hospital, MTM&TB is considering a homebirth second time around and conveyed her distrust in recent US research claims that home births carry three times [...]