Blog posts from March 2017

10 tips for successful co-parenting

29 March, 2017

1) Communicate clearly before creating the babyCommunicate clearly with your potential co-parent about your expectations. Get to know your co-parent over a period of time to develop trust and hopefully friendship. It's important to treat your ...

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Free tickets for Seminar at the Fertility Show Manchester

25 March, 2017

Attend The Fertility Show this Sunday 26th March to hear more about known donors and co-parenting from expert Erika Tranfield co-founder of Pride Angel.Single women and lesbian couples looking to start a family face big issues from the outset when...

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The 8 Biggest Pride Parades in the World

24 March, 2017

Pride parades/marches/ events festivals for the LGBT community are events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture and pride. The events may also serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage. Here ar...

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Known donors and Co-parenting seminar Fertility Show Manchester

23 March, 2017

Single women and lesbian couples looking to start a family face big issues from the outset when it comes to choosing a donor. Anonymity may seem like the simplest route but knowing more about a donor has its advantages, not least for those who wan...

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Breastfeeding and Ducks

18 March, 2017

“Mummy, the ducks don’t have milky (breastmilk).  When they get sad they drink a bit of pond water, don’t they?”“Er…”There are a lot of taboos around breastfeeding.  So I tend not to publicise t...

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IVF Babble interviews Erika from Pride Angel

17 March, 2017

March at IVF babble is all about empowerment and what better way to kickstart this month than talking to Erika Tranfield, the inspirational co-founder of amazing website, Pride Angel, which connects same-sex, straight and infertile couples with do...

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January, February, March…

12 March, 2017

April, May, June…the children love chanting the months.  Sometimes we do it in French: Janvier, Février, Mars...Luna likes to identify whose birthday is in each month and whose birthday is next and whose is after that and so on.She got...

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GOING SOLO: A guide for single women in the UK hoping to start a family

10 March, 2017

There are now about 1000 single women each year in Britain deciding to start a family alone. This is the book for which they've been waiting too long!Ever since I started on my route to solo motherhood 25 years ago, I have been involved with o...

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Have you ever considering co-parenting as a way of creating your family?

08 March, 2017

The definition of family has changed in recent years, with co-parenting fast becoming a trend. Women and men are now choosing to find a co-parent in order to create their family. These mothers and fathers have relationships based on legal agreemen...

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

04 March, 2017

I realised today how much young Luna and Willow remind me of the plays of Shakespeare.  It’s not their clever use of rhetoric (where excerpts from a lengthy repertoire of Julia Donaldson’s published works are wittily embedded into...

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