My parents have just been on holiday, and bought Eliza a present of the red bear sweatshirt from Tootsa MacGinty that I mentioned in my blog post about brilliant baby clothes. Lucky old Eliza. My mum hadn’t actually read that blog post – I know, right? – and bought the jumper independently of knowing I liked…
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4 Baby Crawling Tips To Help Your Baby Crawl Forward
Read moreWhen It Comes To Baby Crawling, How Do You Help Your Baby To Crawl? Read Our Tips To Encourage Crawling How do you help your baby to crawl? I’ve been researching this subject a lot because we have an almost-crawler! So how do you encourage baby crawling? Here’s what we’ve been trying to help our…
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Two new ways to follow my blog…and an anniversary
Read more1) Via email – just add your email adress to the box to the right of the page, and you’ll get any new posts delivered to your inbox when they are posted (once a day, max) 2) A Baby on Board Facebook page – I finally got round to setting this up a few weeks ago.…
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The first tooth has been sighted…
Read more…I repeat, the first tooth has been sighted. Spotted making a brief appearance to the left of the lower front gum, at seven-and-a-bit months, discovered while we were were away in Sheffield for the weekend (celebrating Alex’s parents’ ruby wedding anniversary, congrats guys!). ETA of fellow calcium companions – who knows?
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Brilliant baby clothes from burp! boutique
Read moreOne of the things I didn’t realise about having a baby is just how much fun it would be to buy clothes for her. Eliza is very lucky to be given lots of outfits as presents – plus an ongoing supply of of lovely hand-knitted things – but as she grows so quickly, it’s perfectly reasonable…
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Our personalised iPad cover from Bags of Love
Read moreI seem to have turned into paparazzi mum. There are over 2,000 baby photos on my phone, and I never pass up an opportunity for another impromptu photoshoot (Eliza will thank me when her first boyfriend is round, right?) So I was pretty keen when Bags of Love – creators of personalised photo gifts – contacted me to…
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On the whole world of parenting worry
Read moreOh, the world of parenting worry. So we somehow have a seven-month old baby; when did that happen? And so far each of those seven months have been filled with firsts, and most of them have been great (like her first proper giggle, the first time she rolled over and the first time she sat…