Police in Pittsburgh were called to a bizarre scene yesterday where a father allegedly attempted to flush his newborn down a toilet. According to reports from WPXI News, the horrific attack was over childcare. The 31-year-old father, Dennis Gately is said to have been arguing with the six-week-old baby’s mother when he pulled out a […]

10 years ago

So whenever I happen to be pregnant alas I look NOTHING like Blake Lively and for some reason, I always completely lose the run of not only what clothes suit me but also what clothes I even like. I find myself floundering around in borrowed floral maternity dresses feeling very uncomfortable – nothing against florals, […]

10 years ago

The Irish Independent reports that the main suspects in the West Dublin rape of a young woman last week may be members of the same family. The gardaí have made two arrests in the case, both men in their late teens to early twenties and are seeking a third who they fear has gone to […]

10 years ago

An Arizona couple have been jailed for leaving their 2-year-old son home alone for over an hour. Authorites learned that the couple who initially claimed they were going to get gas, were in fact searching their neighbourhood for virtual creatures. Yes, they were playing Pokémon. The young boy was found by neighbours crying alone and barefoot […]

10 years ago

Trinity student, Cíara Quinn needs the help of Ireland’s mothers to aid in her research into message banking. The final year Clinical Speech and Language student is seeking answers to build a resource for the fascinating field of message banking – a way for people with progressive diseases to record messages for their loved ones […]

10 years ago

Having a toddler around while pregnant doesn’t seem at first like it would be all that awesome. When I found out I was pregnant again, I wondered how I was going to manage without all the cushy little numbers I used to enjoy during my first pregnancy – as presumably this time I would have […]

10 years ago

It goes without saying that the struggles are totally worth it but lately, I’ve started to really envy those heads in jars from Futurama. Such are the (admittedly pretty mild) irritants of attempting to navigate the world in a giant body that is, at this point in pregnancy, frankly just not practical. The human body is […]

10 years ago

Right, congratulations Dada, you clicked into this list and are (presumably) ready to start making your pregnant woman feel better. Well done, this is a good decision. The first thing you need to understand is that however tired you may THINK you are, is NOTHING compared to what she’s experiencing. Maybe you think you had […]

10 years ago

We have a lot of grá for the Irish baby names around these parts. Of course, there can often be a bit of argy-bargy about spellings and pronunciations (I’ve done my best here, but ya know… I’m only human, and I learned a bastardised mix of Leinster and Munster Irish). I particularly enjoy when the proud […]

10 years ago

This birthday card has been viewed nearly 2 million times on Reddit in three days. The card belongs to Steve and Bill, the uncle of redditor, LincolnsLostSpeach‘s fiance and his cousin. The inside of the card reads: “Save this card. You can send it to ME on my birthday.” Perhaps not a great greeting card […]

10 years ago

A 23-year-old mother just delivered her third child by herself after finishing a long work shift. Lianne Brennan had no idea that she had become pregnant shortly after the birth of her second child, Jasmine Jae, who’s now 14-months-old. Brennan, who had just finished a bartending shift, was sitting on her couch at approximately 3 […]

10 years ago

The new trend for gentle or natural c-section has sparked a couple of incredible (if a little graphic) videos lately. Footage of a baby seeming to emerge totally unaided from an incision in the mother’s abdomen has been viewed over 2 million times since it was posted to Facebook by the mother’s friend, Sophie Messager. […]

10 years ago

UPDATE: Lewis Palmer has been found returning to the location from which he disappeared earlier today. “Lewis Palmer was found safe and well. He returned back to the address he had gone missing from.” A spokeperson told the Mirror. The massive investigation was halted in the town of Wilmslow, Cheshire about 15 km south of Manchester. The […]

10 years ago

Small spaces don’t have to be a total headache, we are currently attempting to reorganise our house to accommodate a couple of extra bodies and so I’ve been trawling the internet looking for the best ways to make my little house work harder. 10 Awesome Tricks To Maximise Space And Make Small Rooms Work Harder: […]

10 years ago

My sole life ambition is to make it to my deathbed not knowing ANYTHING about Pokémon Go. I was doing well in this until US site BabyCentre published findings that indicate the newest source of baby name inspiration is… you’ve guessed it… Pokémon Go. Blech. Kill me now. So the buzz is that there’s been […]

10 years ago

Mum, interior designer, fitness blogger and now model, Kelsey Wells has posted an inspiring message to her social media followers about the ‘journey’ since having her baby over a year ago. Kelsey follows Kayla Itsines’ Bikini Body Guide which she writes is “basically the greatest workout program ever created. A week of the BBG program […]

10 years ago

Mila Kunis strutted the red carpet last night at the California premier of her new movie, and it was basically a masterclass in dressing for an occasion while undergoing the general indignity of the human gestation period. Go Mila. Of course, the style entourage of makeup artists, hair stylists and designers on hand is a […]

10 years ago

A nervous and excited Jools Oliver has revealed her hospital bag to her Instagram followers, and it’s so cute. The sentimental mama captioned the post: “How many times am I going to pack and unpack the baby’s hospital bag!!! Nerves and excitement taking over!!! Still have the little nightie my big sisters, myself, and all our […]

10 years ago

The breastfeeding thing was a total nightmare for me – there I’ve said it (let the berating in the comments begin!), and so when a close friend recently had her first baby, I struggled to decide on the best things to say to her during those occasionally difficult early days of breastfeeding. I didn’t want […]

10 years ago

So, we all know that our babies are destined to change the world in no small way, right? From the time they first took a poo all by themselves – that’s right, totally involuntarily, I mean HELLO! the kid’s got talent – we definitely knew our kids were pretty advanced. So, what better than to […]

10 years ago

The latest person to be diagnosed with the Zika virus in Ireland is believed to have just returned from Brazil. This is the fourth case in Ireland in recent months, two of the cases were people returning from Colombia while a third person caught the virus during a trip to Barbados. Zika facts according to […]

10 years ago

“Ugh, parents are the WORST” – Every toddler EVER. Poor, put upon toddlers, you’ve got to feel for them. There they are just happily going about their day, wielding a scissors they’ve found down the back of the couch, or trying to pull the TV down on top of them, when we parents (pesky, ridiculous […]

10 years ago

I am SO curious to know if other pregnant women are experiencing this you-must-be-desperate-for-a-girl phenomenon. I have a son; I am a proud and happy boy muma currently. When I was expecting my son, almost weekly someone would examine me and announce “You’re all bump, that’s a girl” or “I can tell by your hips, […]

10 years ago

Becoming a parent has taught me a lot of things about myself, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that I was not blessed with patience. My fuse is literally about a millimetre long and in an unhappy but pretty predictable turn up for the books, The Child is shaping up to be similarly […]

10 years ago

Anna Saccone, the YouTube sensation has revealed the cruel online abuse she has endured since losing her third child two months ago. The beauty and lifestyle vlogger, who is mum to Emilia and Eduardo shared an emotional video chronicling her struggle with bullying and explaining her decision to take a break from YouTube. For Anna, the […]

10 years ago

We love an old public shaming these days. The latest targets for Twitter ire were Brighton parents, Adele and Matt Allen who are raising their kids, Ulysses and Ostara ‘off-grid’. The family was invited on to ITV’s This Morning show to talk about their alternative approach to parenting which includes child-led weaning (their older child […]

10 years ago

“Oh my god you’re HUGE!” Up there with touching the bump, commenting on the bump is one of the most irritating things to do to a pregnant woman. Why can’t we all just stick to “You look beautiful!” and move on with our day? When I first heard the phrase ‘bump-shaming,’ I had a private eye-roll, […]

10 years ago

A complete legend of a Kansas mum has given birth to three sets of twins in just over two years. 20-year-old, Danesha Couch delivered her latest set of twins last month. The girls, Delanie and Darla, were born on the 17th of June, two years and two months after the birth of the first set […]

10 years ago

Pippa Middleton, one of the world’s most famous scene-stealing bridemaids is heading up the aisle herself next year. Little sis of the Duchess of Cambridge is engaged to 40-year-old hedge fund manager James Matthews. The pair had dated for a short time in 2012 before Pippa embarked on a three-year relationship with another financial high-flyer, […]

10 years ago

Two girls aged, 13 and 14 years old were jailed today for the kidnap of a toddler in a Primark in Newcastle. The girls who cannot be named for legal reasons each received sentences of three years and four months after they lured the toddler away from her mother. The sentencing judge said that the […]

10 years ago

Two years ago doctors at Akron Children’s Hospital twins Jenna and Jillian Thistlethwaite were delivered via c-section HOLDING HANDS. Mum, Sarah had endured a difficult pregnancy and had spent the 57 days prior to the girls’ birth on bed rest. When the babies were delivered, the mum described how the delivery room went completely quiet. […]

10 years ago

One hilarious dad who goes by the Reddit username, Intahnetmonster recently had the Internet in stitches relating his fainting episode at his wife’s antenatal appointment. “I have a huge irrational phobia of needles. Every time I have had to go for a blood test or a vaccination, I have passed out. I know my fear […]

10 years ago

Hurrah. Today is predicted to be the hottest day of the year. Yesterday was a chart-topping 26°C in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, while in other counties temperatures were between 21°C and 25°C. Met Éireann is predicting highs of 27°C in the Midlands today, which will make today the hottest day of the year. Of […]

10 years ago

Tara McMahon, originally from Co. Fermanagh grew up the third youngest of eleven children in the pretty village of Garrison on the border of Donegal and Leitrim. “We grew up in the countryside in a busy house that was always a cacophony of noise – and still is!” After meeting her future husband, Hughie in […]

10 years ago

Despite repeated warnings from my midwife, I was the one who never managed to get the hospital bag packed. Instead I arrived at the hospital on foot carrying a reusable Marks & Spencer’s bag stuffed with random crap I’d grabbed in the five minutes I had to get ready. According to The Man the branding […]

10 years ago

Ah, the old mum blunders… Completely unavoidable (especially if you’re human) but still it’s reassuring to hear other mums reveal the mistakes they’ve made navigating these hazy, crazy years of sleep deprivation. In a recent interview with Babble, the Bad Moms actress described preparing to take her daughter to visit dad, Ashton Kutcher, at work. Having packed […]

10 years ago

The back-to-school expenses mount up year after year but the bitterest pill of all the school accoutrements has got to be the school uniform. The kids hate it. We hate buying it, washing it and ironing it. When it gets wet, it smells like a wet dog. The phrase “they grow up so fast” takes […]

10 years ago

WARNING: This story is not for the squeamish or faint-hearted but my god this mother is incredible. Her extreme measures highlight the grave lack of maternal care and resources that a huge proportion of women still face in developing countries. The self-inflicted surgery was performed after the 40-year-old woman went into spontaneous labour but was […]

10 years ago

BAAAAHHHHH, what the fudge is for dinner??? Is this you? This is me every single day, and these enchiladas are my go to panic dinner. They’re super easy to put together: a quick nip to the shop on the way home for avocados and squash then chuck in a few of the store cupboard staples […]

10 years ago

The baby head smell is a very real phenomenon, as anyone who’s ever been downwind from a glorious fresh newborn human will attest. The problem is that once your child is no longer a teeny, tiny baby your supply is abruptly cut off, and you must rely on the kindness of strangers to give you […]

10 years ago

Lots of expectant mothers really enjoy all the magical stages of the human gestation; this list is not really for these people. This list is for the people who are feeling pretty goddamn cheated because instead of a glow, they got ass sweat. And instead of a serene nine months of folding impossibly small clothes […]

10 years ago

An alternate title for this piece could well have been something like Things I’m doing while I happen to be pregnant that definitely don’t concern anyone else. There are just so many RULES when you’re pregnant. And as a pregnant person, it can often feel like everyone around you has deemed you somewhat incompetent when […]

10 years ago

Wedding season is upon us, and if you, like me, are lumbering around looking like an egg on legs, then you may also be frequently wondering just what the hell to wear to formal occasions when you’ve basically got a beach ball up your top. Step (or waddle) this way fellow preggo babes, we’ve put […]

11 years ago

For the first six months, The Child was like my parasitic twin (in a nice way…). He fed off me; he was only happy in my arms, we slept curled up together in the little single bed in his room, we were inseparable. In a way, he really felt like an extension of my body […]

11 years ago

Usually a confirmed Internet prankster, Joey Salads, took on a more serious when he conducted a social experiment in an American playground. Armed with a cute puppy, Joey, approached children and engaged them in conversation. The experiment was to see if he could convince them to take his hand and come with him “to see […]

11 years ago

I have only one child currently, so to me he is the craziest, wildest, funniest little person that has ever walked this earth. I hear people talking about their crazy toddlers and think how “chill” their lives sound compared to mine because as fun-loving and adorable as The Child is, he is also prone to […]

11 years ago

Happy news for fathers-to-be, the Paternity Bill is to be formally published tomorrow, Monday the 20th of June and is expected to be introduced to the Dáil this Friday. Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald and Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar have celebrated Father’s Day with confirmation of the Paternity Bill. Delighted to announce publication […]

11 years ago

Beauty guru, Liz Dwyer set up Beauty Bootcamp, the wildly popular Dublin courses in makeup and hairstyling after a decade spent “knee-deep in moisturiser and make-up”. During her work as a beauty editor on countless fashion shoots, she was always amazed at the transformation of the models into magazine-ready stunners. “I felt if every woman […]

11 years ago

On Friday evening, a Colorado mother raced to her front garden after hearing screams and came upon a horrifying sight: Her 5-year-old son was being attacked by a mountain lion. The brave woman immediately ran at the animal and wrenched back one of its paws to discover that the boy’s entire head was inside the […]

11 years ago

Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and current Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Chelsea has announced the arrival of her second child with husband, Marc Mezvinsky. Baby boy, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky was born yesterday. The couple already has a daughter, Charlotte, who is one and a half years old. Chelsea, who is 36, announced […]

11 years ago