This month, I’ve read The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry. ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad, they may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you.…

Here are five TV programmes we’re watching, five years after everyone else…this post could also be called ‘thank goodness for catch-up TV when you’re a parent…’ Here are two great technological gifts to modern parents: 1) The ability to stop, pause and rewind live TV 2) Steaming and catch-ups – meaning you can watch anything…

We’ve been watching CBeebies’ The Baby Club, which is brilliant, but here’s what it gets wrong about baby clubs… OK, hands up in the air, we are a few years too old for CBeebies’ The Baby Club’s target market. But after a long sofa session with a sick four-year-old, we accidentally ended up watching it…

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…

I’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…

Can 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…