My journey to becoming a mother came four and a half years ago, when my husband and I decided we wanted to start a family. We had been married for two years and we knew it was time. We were both 27, young to-be parents in today’s society but we faced a common problem that effects so many couples today, after a year of trying to conceive, we were about to look at other ways to enhance this process. Just when we were doing some research and on the twelfth month of trying, I fell pregnant naturally.

Aston Hartley Dempsey was born in September 2011 after a long hard and owchy labour. I put on 25kgs, struggled during the ‘three-months-of-hell’ with a screaming, non sleeping, non eating child and after a breast cancer scare when he was only ten weeks old, the beginning of health driven anxiety I had never even thought about pre-birth began. After the hard realities of being a first time mother in the first few months, things got better, I was learning the ropes of being a mother and loved every second of it. Every month that Aston got older, I would say ‘this is my favourite age’ and life before him seemed to not exist and the understanding of true love, sacrifice and happiness made sense to me now. I was smitten by the little human I created, I knew I wanted more.

Two and a half years, a one shot-wonder-getting-pregnant, gender-disappointment-emotions (see here) and a caesarean birth later, William Jeremiah was born and I was a second time mum. The moment I saw him for the first time, it was pure love, unconditional, emotional love and I cried for hours. This time, I knew how wonderful my time ahead was, all the late nights, the crying and screaming, it would come and go so fast, I knew it was a ride I was going to cherish.

My darling two, completely opposite children, are my life, they come first, they bring my life purpose and meaning and I am so lucky to have them. Being a mum is the best thing that has happened to me and everything else is a bonus. I often wonder if I should or shouldn’t include my motherhood in my blog, but the truth is, they make me who I am, this is me, and my style evolves along with my life journey so I think it is important to share it.

Thank you to Alexia Petsinis for collaborating with Karen and I on this project, you are one special and talented girl!

Happy Mother’s Day fashion mummies and fashionistas of mummies! xxx