19 Weeks Pregnant: Here’s My 19 Weeks Pregnant Bump And 19 Week Diary Pregnancy week 19…what can you expect from being 19 weeks pregnant and the second trimester? Here’s my 19 weeks pregnant diary, and 19 weeks pregnant bump: 19 Weeks Pregnant: Do You Find Out The Sex? I’m talking about sex…baby. No, not like…
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The lost relics of an end-of-the-century childhood
It occurred to me this week, as I watched my toddler watch a video on-demand on a iPad when the programme she really wanted to see wasn’t on one of the huge selection of dedicated kid’s TV channels available, that there’s so much about her childhood that is different. Specifically, so much that’s different from…
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An alternative reading list for two-year-olds
My daughter loves books. Like most toddlers, she’s obsessed with Miffy, and tea-eating tigers, and bear hunts, and whatever mischief Alfie gets up to, and all the old favourites and newer versions and magical worlds that a good story can transport you to. She loves to read them all over and over, again and again,…
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Five mum and baby beauty finds
I’m a bit of reformed beauty junkie. OK, so only ‘reformed’ because I don’t work in central London any more, where I had easy access to big chemists and the delights of Space NK and so on. And loads of time to kill waiting for friends in the evening, and delayed trains, and a full-time…
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Pregnancy week 18: heartbeat
An update at 18 weeks pregnant…what can you expect from this point in the second trimester and what pregnancy signs, symptoms and feelings will you be experiencing? This week at 18 weeks pregnant I heard the baby’s heartbeat for the first time since the scan, which is always lovely, isn’t it? What wasn’t so lovely…
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How To Pick A Perfect Baby Name
How To Pick A Perfect Baby Name How to pick a perfect baby name…well it’s hard, isn’t it? Picking a perfect baby name seems like the fun part of pregnancy and birth. Everyone has a name they’ve loved since childhood, or some kind of mental list of cool names you could use. Turns out it’s…
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Can you really take children to a Gordon Ramsay restaurant?
One of the things I miss the most about our pre-baby life is going out for dinner whenever we felt like it; to celebrate, on special occasions, or just because. And often because we had no food in the house, which used to happen quite frequently as we didn’t need to worry about it back…