This post is contributed by a guest author. A diagnosis of autism is beneficial when discovered at an early age, however for 42 percent of women and girls they don’t have this option available to them. These females are misdiagnosed as having a mental or eating disorder, rather than being autistic. Why is there such a large percentage of the […]
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This post is an advertisement feature with Boots but all words and images are my own. With Mother’s Day around the corner I’ll admit that, for the past 6 years, I have mainly thought of myself – the stay-at-home mum with small children at home and little time to myself, in desperate need of R&R. Now, both of my children
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We got a letter today from the NHS about my son. He’d had his reception-year measurements taken and his height and weight were normal. Having looked it up on the BMI calculator on the NHS website, he’s actually on the bottom 10th centile but that’s OK and within a healthy range. Phew, eh? Last year though, we got the same
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Can you imagine what it’s like to not feel clean, shave, wash your hair properly or buy sanitary products, because you can’t afford to? To not be able to change your baby’s nappies as often as you really should because your food budget doesn’t stretch that far? To have to send your children to school without brushing their teeth? For
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I refuse to set new year’s resolutions because they don’t tend to last that long, however I did start 2019 wanting to get fitter and healthier in general. I was offered a month of BOOSTfit classes and membership of the new BOOSTme online fitness support group during January, in exchange for a review and sharing my thoughts about it all.
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At the risk of entirely alienating the 1% of my readership that is male (sorry, guys) today I’m talking periods, voluntarily. Specifically the Mooncup menstrual cup. If this isn’t something you want to read about, I’d probably click away now to be honest. But if on the other hand you’re a woman who has periods but has never used a
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Cervical screening… Smear tests. Not great fun, definitely not in my top ten things to do with a childfree hour or two. However, as women, it is something that we all must do. My first experience of going for a smear test was whilst I was still at university in Wales. Until 2013, smear tests in Wales were routine from
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We’re going gluten free. Well, the small one is, again. I like bread just way too much. And cake, and pasta, and biscuits; basically all the things that make me bloat like I’m six months pregnant but are totally worth it. So yea… this post is not going to be very funny, and there’s a bit of poo chat. No
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This was written on 12 May 2008, when I’d just had my Lasik laser eye surgery. It’s now November 2017 – nearly ten years later! – but, having had to go searching for this sporadically during the last eight years when the subject of laser eye surgery came up, I thought I’d move it over to the blog so I
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