Mushbrainedramblings

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Overcoming a cancer scare, the death of her father, difficult times with her work, and an overactive immune system, Ellie overcame all the odds and became first time mother at 47 1/2 having had IVF treatment in Spain. Her blog covers that journey and follows her journey with her daughter through their first year together and onward ... this issues faced by being an older mother, the trials and excitements of baby led weaning and the utter joys of motherhood.


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    Overcoming a cancer scare, the death of her father, difficult times with her work, and an overactive immune system, Ellie overcame all the odds and became first time mother at 47 1/2 having had IVF treatment in Spain. Her blog covers that journey and follows her journey with her daughter through their first year together and onward ... this issues faced by being an older mother, the trials and excitements of baby led weaning and the utter joys of motherhood.

LATEST ARTICLES ( 228 )

  • Your Help Please

    Your Help Please

    As a writer (it still makes me beam when people call me that), I don’t have a campaign to support (specifically), or a major issue, so my blog is about me, abou... Read more

    Posted on 10 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • “Is Being a Mother the Most Defining Role a Woman Can Have?”

    I was delighted to have been asked to contribute to Cyma Shapiro’s wonderful project Mothering in the Middle, and then last month she asked what my response... Read more

    Posted on 08 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Ten Things Not to Say to a News Editor About Being an Older Mother

    Things News Editor About Being Older Mother

    The media led furore around older mothers has reared its head again, with headlines inferring that the 50% rise in new mothers over the age of 50 was responsibl... Read more

    Posted on 08 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • … It Pours

    So in the last few days …- mother / Granby (nearly 90) tripped and fell over in Cambridge – in town to have an eye test, caught her stick on the kerb and fell... Read more

    Posted on 03 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Snap

    I had to work this afternoon, and Granby volunteered to look after Hope.They’re a gang, the best of friends, but they were also both getting over a nasty bug an... Read more

    Posted on 01 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • An Achy Shoulders Kind of Day

    We’ve been ill …first Hope, she kissed her little boyfriend a few weeks back in playgroup … she got her first snogging related disease … a horrible cold and... Read more

    Posted on 27 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Bravery in the Extreme

    Tonight the world award for bravery, goes to ……………… bigger drum roll ………………………………… yupyou guessed itHope!Normally at the end of her bath as soon as she seems... Read more

    Posted on 25 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Wondrous Statement

    Wondrous Statement

    We had ice cream for pudding this evening, she sat quietly eating it, careful mouthful by careful mouthful.“Are you enjoying your ice cream Hope?”, I... Read more

    Posted on 20 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • To Celebrate World Happiness Day

    Celebrate World Happiness

    and the #NoMakeUpSelfie campaign (which has already helped raise over £1 million to fight cancer in 24 hours) … here we are bare faced (and in my case... Read more

    Posted on 20 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Reflections

    She’s very into reflections at the moment, in puddles, in windows, in picture glass and so on but mainly in the bathroom mirror. Read more

    Posted on 19 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Born to Mum

    Born

    I’ve been thinking long and hard about the media storm caused after a young mother was labelled as a ‘tramp’ when she was snapped by some idiot while she was... Read more

    Posted on 18 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • A Brave New World

    Brave World

    This week I submitted my first piece to the Huffington Post. I waited very apprehensively for it to be published, it’s one thing writing here or on other... Read more

    Posted on 13 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Toilet Talk

    Lots of Hope’s friends have started potty training, some have finished it … it hasn’t even occurred to me to begin.Maybe in the summer when she can potter... Read more

    Posted on 13 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Lost Four

    She can count up to 13 now, and once made it all the way to 15.It’s a big deal, she stands tall and points at leaves, at pebbles, at floorboards, at the ducks i... Read more

    Posted on 05 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Words Words Words

    a long list of new ones …“noceros” … rhinoceros (a small stretchy plastic one that was a present in a party bag)puzzlestretch (in the morning when we stretch ou... Read more

    Posted on 05 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Size Matters

    She may be small for her age, but Hope firmly believes that she is a “big girl” now.In fact she positively glows with pride when someone leans down, “my,... Read more

    Posted on 01 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

    … and we were driving home from visiting a friend in deepest rural Suffolk.Hope was grumbling in the back of the car, she’d wanted to play Pooh Sticks from the... Read more

    Posted on 26 February 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Crafty?

    I have craft phobia.It’s illustrated throughout my blog … all the times I’ve fallen hopelessly short sticking, gluing, icing, baking, stitching, making …today... Read more

    Posted on 23 February 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Hurrah for Women

    Something totally unexpected happened to me when I got pregnant …I started having new relationships.I began to find the absolute joy of women. Read more

    Posted on 22 February 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Failing Dismally

    There’s one area of motherhood in which I’ve totally and utterly failed …actually I’ve not even attempted it.I just can’t do it.Nails … tiny sharp scratchy... Read more

    Posted on 22 February 2014 SELF EXPRESSION