Full-time mum. Full-time employee. Full-time partner. Full-time friend. When you’re a full-time everything, you need allies that support you, a community that champions you and resources that help you. That’s what The Full Timers Club is here for.
Our newborn journeys; and how everyone's is VERY different
Nobody tells you that the newborn experience you had with your first child will look nothing like the one that comes next. Different baby, different season of life, different version of you and sometimes, a completely different world.
This week it is just the two of us, and we are getting honest about our newborn journeys. We talk about what it was like bringing a baby home during COVID, the isolation, the fear, the strange quiet of a world that had stopped and how that experience shaped everything that came after.
We also get into what subsequent newborns actually look like. The way your confidence shifts. The things you stop worrying about. And the guilt of not having the same presence with your second that you gave your first.
Because no two newborn journeys are the same. And the more honest we are about that, the less alone every new mum feels.
7 Oct 2026
Two things can be true: Matrescence and Maternal Ambivalence
You can love your child more than you have ever loved anything in your entire life and find it really, really hard at the same time. You can not want to be apart from your baby for a single second and also be desperately counting down to bedtime.
This week we are introducing two words that most mothers have never heard but that we think are going to completely change the way you see yourself.
The first is matrescence which is the psychological, neurological and identity transformation of becoming a mother. A shift so significant that your brain physically rewires itself and yet somehow we have no language for it, no support for it and are given six weeks before the world expects us to carry on as normal.
The second is maternal ambivalence. The simultaneous experience of contradictory feelings that come with motherhood; the love and the rage, the devotion and the resentment, the desperate need for a break and the inability to stop thinking about your kids the moment you get one.
We also get into why these feelings are so buried in shame and why a culture that tells us to "treasure every moment" makes it so much harder.
Two things can be true. And this episode is your permission slip to feel all of them.
30 Sept 2026
AI hacks for families — the ones that actually work
We are not tech people. We are not AI experts. We are two full time working mums who stumbled onto a few things that have genuinely changed how we manage our lives and we could not keep them to ourselves.
This week it is just the two of us, and we are getting practical. From managing the mental load to planning holidays, drafting the emails you have been putting off and building routines that actually stick, we are walking through the AI tools and tricks that have quietly become part of how we run our families and our work lives.
No jargon. No tech talk. Just honest, real life hacks from two busy women who need more hours in the day.
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