Category Archives: Life Experience

6 December 2018 by Anna

The diagnosis was certain

There is a post we ran a long time ago that has become our most searched-for post, our most needed post, the post where women still write to us, asking why me?, and how, and this wasn’t supposed to happen, and thank you. That post is On Miscarriage. Pavla wrote to us. She lost her [...]

Categories: Becoming a Mother, Life Experience
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28 August 2017 by Anna

There are no easy choices

Being a mother is like navigating an army assault course every day, for the rest of your life. Except the obstacles aren’t the baby (okay, the obstacles are sometimes the baby). The obstacles are other people, expectations, and self-inflicted guilt and punishment. Linsey articulates perfectly how that feels. How everyone’s assault course is different. How [...]

Categories: Becoming a Mother, Life Experience
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25 August 2017 by Anna

The next chapter

September is coming, and it’s a bittersweet time for parents across the world as they send the most important people in their life off to the big unknown, all wrapped up in freshly-washed school uniform. Liz absolutely nails the guilt, the pride, the sadness and the hope. Good luck, darling Tessa. What an adventure awaits: [...]

Categories: Becoming a Mother, Family, Friends and Relationships, Life Experience
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27 July 2017 by Aisling

For Patrick

5 years ago, we were heartbroken - yet honoured – to share with you a post by our wonderful friend Fee. I would not dare try to paraphrase her beautiful, raw words; if you have not read it, I urge you to do so. I think I speak for many, if not all of us, when [...]

Categories: Becoming a Mother, Life Experience
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14 July 2017 by Anna

The centre cannot hold

There are some lines that get into my blood and under my skin as soon as I read them. I think of them at particular points in my life. “The centre cannot hold”, I think, when I recognise that I’m getting close to breaking point. It sort of comes to me, over and over, starting [...]

Categories: Life Experience, Written By Anna
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26 March 2017 by Anna

Behind Closed Doors: Being There

At Any Other Woman, you can talk about anything. Anything you want at all. Any subject, any time. We are proud to be able to provide that platform for you, it makes our hearts sing. But we do understand that sometimes there are topics that are too sensitive, too divisive, simply too hard to write about [...]

Categories: Family, Friends and Relationships, Life Experience
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8 March 2017 by Anna

Big girl pants

Oh, readers. Do we have a belter of a post for you today. From the one and only Katielase. You’ll know her as the “cake-baking science nerd triathlete” (as I once described her). I don’t know many women who won’t feel this post touch the most uncomfortable parts of their insides. It’s brave, it’s honest, [...]

Categories: Body Image, Health, Life Experience
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27 February 2017 by Anna

The unexpected

It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? I’m sorry we’ve been gone so long. We fell out of love with blogging, and raising tiny humans was all-encompassing, and and and… But I don’t think either of us ever fell out of love with writing. And we know many of you miss the space that this [...]

Categories: Any Other Baby, Becoming a Mother, Family, Friends and Relationships, Life Experience, Written By Anna
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8 September 2014 by Anna

Stop, Look and Listen

Well. Happy Monday, readers. I know posting has been erratic lately. Aisling and I are both pretty busy and as a result, we’re posting as and when posts come in, and writing when and if we can. It’s working for us right now. I’m sure we’ll be back to a better schedule soon, and we’re [...]

Categories: Life Experience
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26 August 2014 by Anna

a note to my darling daughter.

Well. Isn’t this just packed to the brim of wisdom and truth and honesty. This may be advice for Meredith’s beautiful baby girl but, let’s face it, it’s advice for us all, however old we are. It’s beautiful. Thank you Meredith: as i look upon the canvas of you and me and your daddy [...]

Categories: Becoming a Mother, Life Experience
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