Well written and some bits really captured the weird ups and downs of parenthood, but I found the author herself quite frustrating to read.

Her easy description of giving birth to her 5th child without painkillers and the comment that you’re missing something profound if you use painkillers in birth was.. unhelpful. 

I also wish there was more of a recognition that yes she had 5 children and an often absent father but she also had live in help which - obviously - mitigated a lot of the challenges of parenting but was never really written about apart from the occasional “I took my oldest son out for lunch and left the other four with Pavel” etc.