A Postnatal Depression Survival Guide Today’s post is a guest post from the brilliant Cat Dean, who blogs at www.postnatalsurvival.com and is author of Fertile Thinking and The Postnatal Survival Guide. You can also read more from Cat over on TalkMum (my new work project – more on this later). Thanks Cat! I read a really interesting piece on…
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Bump to baby to birthday number one
Read moreHere’s the past nineteen months in blog posts: Bump: 12 weeks (in utero) my pregnancy week by week and my pregnancy diary in Pregnancy & Birth magazine Birth: Welcome to the world, Eliza and her birth story Baby: Eliza at one month, three months, rolling over, five months, six months, her first tooth, eight months, 11 months (and…
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Change of a dress
Read moreHow has your style changed post-baby? Mine is much more casual now, mainly as there’s no real need to dress up for trips to Sainsbury’s, working from home or lying on the floor while a little person uses me as a climbing frame.
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On breastfeeding beyond 12 months
Read moreSo breastfeeding beyond 12 months; that’s strange, right? Due to lack of information and discussion, and of course the ubiquitous Little Britain sketch, there are so many negative stereotypes around boob-feeding babies past a certain age…but surprise! It’s actually the most natural thing in the world. However if you’d told me a year ago that…
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Use The Fork, Luke: The Star Wars Cookbook For Kids
Read moreWe’ve Been Baking With The Star Wars Cookbook For Kids Fancy getting in the kitchen AND some 70’s-style Star Wars nostalgia? We dusted off the Star Wars Cookbook For Kids. Fancy making some Wookie Cookies? Yoda Soda? Obi-Wan Kebabs? Han-burgers? Well the Star Wars children’s cookbook should be right up your…galaxy, far, far away. The…
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The weekly shop would cost £453 if food had risen in line with house prices…
Read moreI am currently taking a healthy interest in property prices. To be more precise, the impractical, sky-high price of London property, coupled with our need to upsize in the next year or so. Watching all the property programmes? Constantly looking at Rightmove? Yep, that’s me…it’s fair to say it’s something that’s on my mind a…
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How to be one
Read more1) Open birthday presents in your own unique style (show a fleeting bit of interest in ripping the paper, be absolutely fascinated by pulling cards out of the envelopes, put everything straight in your mouth) 2) Try your first tiny bit of birthday cake and really kind of like it, especially the pink frosting 3)…