Are you a co-sleeper? Did you ever co-sleep with your children? Or is the thought of bed sharing with your baby, toddler or child a complete nightmare to you? The thought of co-sleeping used to terrify me, ‘I’ll NEVER let my baby sleep in our bed’, pregnant-me thought as I starfished in it, smugly. Even…
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Would you use a menstrual cup? I try the Lily Cup One
Read moreI’ve been trying out the Lily Cup One (which I was sent as a gift) on a mission to find out if menstrual cups are the one…period chat incoming… Do you use a menstrual cup / period cup? Would you try one? Shaped along the lines of a more curvy party popper (!) menstrual cups…
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Tea with the Tiger at the Discover Children’s Story Centre
Read moreWe were invited along to the preview of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the adventures of Mog, the new exhibition at the Discover Children’s Story Centre in Stratford. Here’s what we thought: Have you heard the one about the Tiger who came to tea? He ate all the food in the cupboard, drank…
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One book a month: February
Read moreCan running change your life, for the better? That’s the question behind Jog On by Bella Mackie, which is my February entry in One Book A Month. This year I’m trying to read more books than the three I read last year and thought I would attempt to read a book a month. Which is…
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Why I’m still talking about parenting (and a change of direction)
Read moreSeven and a half years ago now, I started this blog to talk about my pregnancy. Because, obviously I was the very first person to have a baby (and here’s my first ever post!). I wrote about childbirth, the confusion and joy of the early baby days and what happened next, and then later on,…
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One book a month: January
Read moreHere’s the first of my one book a month posts, about The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell…One of the things I decided to do this year was read more books. Last year I read three, which was an improvement on the year before’s one-and-a-half, which is shocking considering pre-children I used to read…
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Kids room DIY: easy ways to change up children’s bedrooms (and a mini room tour)
Read moreThe children’s rooms are my favourite in the house, as they can be as colourful and fun as you like, and let’s face it, you can stick all the toys in there away from the rest of the house and not worry about them, can’t you? Anyway! F’s room was inherited from her sister a…