9 Things Mums Talk About That Work Effectively As Contraception

6. You would not believe how hungry I am. My kids have had gastro and they’ve been going at both ends for days! My house looks like a Jackson Pollock painting with bodily fluids.

The mental image here is really all I need, and it hits you with the effectiveness of a truckload of condoms and a prescription for the pill. Not only does it conjure up the dreaded images of multiple children sick at the same time, but the flinging of any sort of human bodily fluid is just more than I can handle. So please, have a BLT on me, and enjoy parenting.

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Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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