MUM SHAMED AT 15…AND 42!
Jun 21, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: SASKIA MURPHY, TIFFANY WALLIS
Running around after my four kids and five grandchildren and working as a life coach, my life was pretty busy already in 2019. I was almost too busy to realise I had missed my period… ‘Maybe I’m going into early menopause,’ I thought, reasoning it made sense at the age of 42. But when I started to have a familiar nauseous feeling, I froze. Surely not. Yet, a pregnancy test confirmed it – I was having baby number five.
‘PEOPLE WOULD STARE AT MY BUMP’
Almost 30 years earlier I’d had that same feeling, the same nervous excitement. Only then, I was just 15. I was young and
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