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Maia Dunphy
Irish Examiner
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-41321821.html
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Maia Dunphy
Navigating the Summer Holidays - The True Test of Parenting
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/maia-dunphy-navigating-the-summer-holidays-with-kids-is-a-true-test-of-parenting/a1350725695.html
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Maia Dunphy
Vulnerability Can Only Be Created By Others.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/maia-dunphy-dont-victim-blame-the-vulnerable-its-not-their-fault/a20824361.html
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Maia Dunphy
The First Six Weeks
I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...
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Maia Dunphy
Looking Forward
Many of us live in a perpetual state of anticipation; it’s often the looking forward that gets us through the day to day. Not necessarily...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: The Borrowers
Neither a borrower nor a lender be. I’m sure most of you have heard that at least once in your lives (usually from the kind of family...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Co-Sleeping (AKA another rod for for your back).
I knew nothing about co-sleeping before I had a baby (frankly, it would have been weird as hell if I did). But countless people asked me...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Unapologetic Tractors
I’ve lost count of the number of times baby Tom has been mistaken for a girl, despite the fact that I shamelessly don’t adhere in anyway...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: An Oldie, But a Goldie...
Have you ever seen those mums out and about who look exactly as you had always planned to when you became the buggy-pusher? Dressed...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: In-Laws...
Six letters, two little hyphenated words, but always one massive reaction: in-laws. The staple of many an un-pc comic’s routine for...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Booze
Several years ago I unwittingly became a poster girl for “women and drinking”. I hadn’t intended to, but I made a document called Merlot...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Post-Baby Bodies
In the grand scheme of things, we know the “post-baby body” rhetoric is very unimportant, but even so, how we feel about ourselves is...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Some Kids Are Assholes
Since having a baby, there is no denying that I have become more of a ‘baby person’. I empathise when I see a stressed mum, or hear a...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Dressing Like a Mother
Baby clothes are cute, no matter what colour, size or style. Not so Mum clothes apparently. But what even ARE Mum clothes? I thought I...
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Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Milestones
You’ll find as a new parent that many people will only ask you about your children. Sometimes it’s because you have nothing else in...
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Maia Dunphy
Too Much Information.
It occurred to me recently how obsessed with are with predictions. I don’t mean opportunistic fortune telling or nonsense soothsaying,...
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Maia Dunphy
Memories Are Made Of This...
Humans have many design glitches (features that Apple would have taken three or four iPhone generations to iron out, but ones that our...
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Maia Dunphy
Dry January
Three years ago this month, I partook of Dry January (do you partake in abstinence? Enlist? Maybe endure would be a better word). The...
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Maia Dunphy
Plans
Somebody asked me about my plans for Christmas recently, and I balked; I’m not even ready for Autumn yet, never mind Winter, because I...
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Maia Dunphy
Style
I’m planning a late summer holiday this month, and for the first time in my life, I don’t have the previously ubiquitous swimsuit/ bikini...
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