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Single Mother Ahoy: The Podcast 2015-02-04

Welcome to my weekly podcast; thank you to everyone who has been listening; I’m really enjoying the whole process of creating these little things so it’s lovely that people are listening! This week’s podcast is about domestic abuse, something I feel very strongly about. In the podcast I speak about Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago

Gaslighting

Gaslighting is something I had never heard of, until it happened to me… or rather, until a long while after it happened to me. While it’s happening, it’s really hard to recognise. On Wikipedia, gaslighting is described as: a form of mental abuse in which false information is presented with Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years5 years ago

Emotional Abuse: Not as Obvious as You’d Think

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written a series of posts about my experience with S’s birth and first few weeks of life. Many people have commented about my ex partner’s behaviour. There were some clear signs that he was an abusive person, attempting to intimidate and control me. Read more…

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By vicky_6ac9952s, 10 years4 years ago

My Birth Story, Part 2.

This post follows on from Part 1 here. I woke up at 1am; my contractions had started again. The midwife came in and made sure the monitors were in the right place to pick up the heartbeat and contractions, and told me to call if I needed anything. Between then Read more…

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By vicky_6ac9952s, 10 years5 years ago

My Birth Story, Part 1

This is S’s birth story. She was due on 13th May, 2012. On Easter weekend then, at the beginning of April, I wasn’t expecting much excitement past eating my body weight in chocolate. I’d had a bad cough, and not slept much. On the Saturday afternoon I sat on the Read more…

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By vicky_6ac9952s, 10 years6 years ago

An Example of Why I am Happy to be a Single Mum.

For those who don’t know, S was born 5 weeks early, and we were in hospital for almost two weeks. When they finally let us out (I was begging for freedom by this point) it was under strict instructions not to let her go for more than three hours between Read more…

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By vicky_6ac9952s, 10 years8 years ago

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