Articles:
When will we start celebrating divorce? – Daily Life
All you extended breastfeeding questions answered – Essential Baby
Why are married couples afraid of the newly divorced? – Daily Life
Flexible childcare isn’t just a ‘women’s issue’ – Daily Life
What I’m Reading (on love affairs and reading) – Meanjin
Dear Mark Latham, mothers are not the natural enemy of stay-at-home dads – Daily Life
The truth about how your home home life interferes with your work life – Daily Life
The panel: Tony Abbott, one year on – The Guardian
Judging – and being judged – on the way we parent in public – Daily Life
Why Rudd’s $450m for after-hours school care is a mixed blessing – The Guardian
The difference between working dads and working mums – Daily Life
It’s time to stop condemning ‘confessional writing’ – Daily Life
Things no-one tells you about single parenthood – Daily Life
The deadly pressure of affairs – Daily Life
In praise of partnerless holidays – Daily Life
The Conquest: Sometimes the Political is Personal – The Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary
A note to my child’s future therapist – Daily Life
Mum banned from Instagram over toddler’s ‘topless’ picture – Daily Life
In praise of risk-taking women – Daily Life
Fighting against dress-code sexism at school – Daily Life
Facing the onslaught of maternal intimacy – Daily Life
Can gardening mend a broken heart? – Daily Life
Can you protect your children from living your mistakes?” – Daily Life
How I overcame the bystander effect – Daily Life
Inside the world of mothers’ group friendships – Daily Life
Will the next federal budget put more pressure on women? – Daily Life
Can we undo sexism by the next generation? – Daily Life
Do we need to be stoic for our children? – Daily Life
Why do parents defend corporations against other parents? – The Huffington Post
Natalie Barr doesn’t speak for all women – Daily Life/Sydney Morning Herald
Why suburbia snobs are wrong – The Guardian
There’s something missing from the prime minister’s child care inquiry – Daily Life
Staying at home for the love of it – Essential Baby
Abbott as women’s minister may not be such a bad thing. Here’s why – The Guardian
Why I hate undecided voters – SBS
The case for generous parental leave – The Guardian
Sexualising girls: what’s missing from the conversation? – Essential Kids
Returning to work: a walk in the park? – Essential Baby
In defence of the mothers you hate – Essential Baby
What’s missing from the retro wife debate – Daily Life
Why Rudd’s $450m for after-hours school care is a mixed blessing – The Guardian
Choices in the operating room – Essential Kids
Disappearing mums – Daily Life
Julia Gillard’s adoption apology comes after an abyss of trauma – The Guardian
Entertainment in a hurry: on art, impatience and middle age – The Wheeler Centre
I hate playgroup – Essential Baby
How my ban on toy guns failed – Essential Kids
Meticulous bohemia – Daily Life
Complaining about motherhood – Daily Life
How to tell people you’re pregnant – Daily Life
The great lies of childhood – Daily Life
The most powerful pregnant woman on the planet – The Wheeler Centre
Leave work at 5.30 – Daily Life
Books:
The Good Mother Myth: Redefining motherhood to fit reality edited by Avital Norman Nathman
The 21st Century Motherhood Movement edited by Andrea O’Reilly
Quoted in books:
Why Have Kids? by Jessica Valenti
Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution by Antonella Gambotto-Burke
blue milk 
Wow, your posts about mothers and their unloved children…Thank you! x