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Setting aside her crushing burden, Karen Crofts, the winner of our 2011 My Child/Parenting Express short story writing competition, finds the time to sit and dream with her daughter Your third babysitter, in as many weeks, is Czech. I will forget her name tomorrow but remember her accent for years. I will forget her face [...]
Cherri Ryan, a shortlisted entrant in our My Child/Parenting Express writing competition, finally found fulfilment in an unexpected place I didn’t know that I was lost. It had never occurred to me. Early 30s, successful career, friends, married to a wonderful man – I had planned, studied, worked, worried and planned some more. I had success. [...]
The My Child/Parenting Express short story writing competition is now in its fifth year and we’re inviting mums and dads to submit a 850-word story for publication in the My Life section of My Child and online at parentingexpress.com. Entries must be unpublished, creative nonfiction (no poetry) with a theme relating to pregnancy, birth or [...]
Linda Thurston, 33, an accountant from Greystanes, NSW, shares her real-life story After a relatively good pregnancy, apart from a little high blood pressure, Jacob was born on Valentine’s Day 2008 by Caesarean. He was a healthy baby boy until day three when he started having feeding problems and getting tired. My lactation nurse took [...]
Evelyn Lewin, 31, a doctor from Caulfield North, Vic, shares her real-life story After six years of medical school, one year of an internship and two years of being a resident doctor, I stood draped in a blue gown, my brow sweaty with effort, and smiled as I heard the newborn cries of the baby [...]
Sam Gilbertson, 36, a business owner and stay-at-home mum from East Ryde, NSW, shares her real-life story My husband Scott and I were like most other couples. We fell in love, travelled the world, purchased a house and decided to start a family. I was 30 and my husband was 33, and we were ready [...]
Kirsten Johnston, a shortlisted entrant in our My Child/Parenting Express writing competition, survives the dark depths of postnatal depression. The Grove Clinic. A pretty name. A leafy, greeny, pretty name for what everyone knows is a hospital, a mental hospital. A place for loony mothers and the children they can’t love. I can hear the [...]
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