The Hand Mirror

I have a boyfriend (please leave me alone) Yes I am totally mentally distraught about this pregnancy and would get lots worse if I had to ...

In recent public debate about child poverty blame has been laid once again on parents having too many children.  Correspondents and opinion...

My third child is six weeks old today.  For almost all of that time he and I have been living in a kind of dim twilight world, half-lit and ...

In a couple of months I will be transforming my life, and my body, again, through the addition hopefully of another baby.  To answer the sta...

What:  Public meeting as part of the 26 for Babies campaign, supporting Sue Moroney's bill to extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks ....

Fantastic to hear the first reading of the Private Member's Bill to extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks pass tonight.  Labour, Green...

Many thanks to Family Planning NZ for allowing me to publish the below from their e-newsletter: A report released in December 2011 b...

On Monday the NZ Herald started a week-long series looking at the gap between rich and poor in Auckland.  On the first day they examined two...

Many thanks to Foggy in Nelson for this contribution, on the eve of Mothers' Day.  Wanting to write this has driven FiN to set up her ow...

I thought the second time would be easy.  It should be shouldn't it?  After all Wriggly was breastfed to a year and he had a pretty bad ...

Please find below (indeed below the Read More) the presentation I gave today on why abortion needs to be legal, and why we need a pro-choice...

This is what pregnancy means for me.  Maybe it's different for you.  Maybe it's not.  This is what it's like for me. To start ...

Gah this day just keeps getting better and better. First women are being chided for not being Julia Child , but now we know the reason for o...

Dear Child, Not the one who gives me huge sloppy kisses, but the other one inside my tummy. We've had a pretty odd beginning. Other wome...

i was quite interested by the discussion around this story about an australian MP who took her child into the house for a short while: Poli...

The Herald is reporting that the Government is putting an extar $100 million into maternity care over the new four years. The money will go...

From Stuff's Business Day section: Vasectomy specialist Dr Dirk Venter at the Henderson Medical Centre says there is definitely a link b...

Across the ditch our Australian friends are not so always lucky, doing without any form of paid parental leave whatsoever. With a change in...

today is the 18th international day of the midwife : This years’ theme “The World Needs Midwives Now More than ever” has been developed as p...

In 2006 I went to concert put on Dr. Beat Richner . Richner had dedicated his life to setting up children's hospitals in Cambodia. He wa...