Foreign travel when pregnant can be a mixed bag. Sometimes it's great; sometimes it's a nightmare. On one occasion I arrived at Lisbon airport, running, running. A security guard stopped me, babbling questions in Portuguese. After thirty years of flying, my brain was telling me one thing: Be...
When you're pregnant, travelling on public transport becomes a study in complex sociology. The first few months are the worst. There’s no outward sign you’re pregnant, but you feel vile and dread the Tube. You feel a fraud asking for the ‘less able to stand’ seat without a bump – despite feeling...
If you're worried about losing your identity by having kids, seek inspiration close to home. At some point around week 30 I found myself having some sort of identity crisis: I felt keenly that my professional sense of self was slipping – and the alternatives that presented themselves were not working...
Does having a baby make women better leaders? Or is it the greatest barrier to gender equality? In a feminism class during my Politics degree, I remember our lecturer explaining once that there are two feminist view of pregnancy: one is that it is the ability to give birth that is the source of all of...
