Mind & Body

Twenty three stone mum goes on maternity leave - and loses half her body weight!

By Keith Kendrick, May 24, 2012

Determined Jacqueline Illingworth used her maternity leave to become half the woman she used to be!

Not all stay-at-home mums are depressed and joyless

By Heidi Scrimgeour, May 24, 2012

Stay-at-home mums beware: giving up your career to look after your kids can ruin your life, leaving you angry and depressed.

Stay-at-home-mums more angry, depressed and laugh less than working mothers

By Keith Kendrick, May 23, 2012

Mums who stay at home to bring up their families suffer more worry, sadness, stress and anger than mums who work.

My vomit phobia: 'Being a mum threw up all sorts of problems'

By Liz Stansfield, May 22, 2012

Kelly Hendrick, has been scared of sick since she was a child. She tells Parentdish how she finds parenting two young children with her fear of vomit

Are we giving our children mixed messages about diet and body image?

By Lucy Jolin, May 17, 2012

We're all concerned about the lessons kids learn from magazines which celebrate skinny celebs and highlight a new crazy diet every week. But perhaps we need to look a bit closer to home.

Mum-to-be refuses lung cancer operation to save unborn baby

By parentdish.co.uk, May 15, 2012

Mum Daniella Jackson was advised to abort her unborn baby to save herself from lung cancer. She refused and is a now proud mum to baby Rennae

Mum and daughter lose 24 stone between them after matching gastric surgery bypass ops

By parentdish.co.uk, May 8, 2012

Mum and daughter Debbie Marchese and Chloe Paul lost 24 stone between them following matching gastric bypass surgery.

The real shape of a mother: Flabby tummies and cellulite

By Rachel Mostyn, Apr 26, 2012

A website in America is hoping to promote positive and realistic mum body shapes and sizes, posting photos of real post-baby stomachs

Marathon mum: I lost 6 st and ran the London Marathon

By Ursula Hirschkorn, Apr 25, 2012

Mum of four Ursula Hirschkorn lost six stone and eight dress sizes. She recently completed the London Marathon in four hours and 33 minutes and shares her story with Parentdish

25 stone mum was so fat her kids had to take her to the toilet

By Keith Kendrick, Apr 18, 2012

Food addict Dawn Price became so obese her children had to take her to the toilet. She joined a slimming club and lost an amazing nine stone

Does your family attend church? Could religious groups do more to welcome families and young children?

By Linda Aitchison, Apr 14, 2012

Thumbing through some years old family snaps of my girls laughing at a countryside picnic, I felt a tinge of regret. Friends on the pictures had been made at church and we have long since stopped going. We soon lost touch with the other children at the party.