Are you breastfeeding? Here are ten tips for breastfeeding support Are you breastfeeding your baby? I’ve been breastfeeding now for nearly three and a half years in total, and during that time breastfeeding support has proved vital to help us on our feeding journey. So here are all the people – groups, products and things…
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How not to do bedtime
Bedtime is the last event in the parenting Olympics, isn’t it? It’s the final hurdle, with the finishing line – sofa and wine – tantalisingly within touching distance. But you don’t get a medal, and win or lose you’re awarded the same opportunity to do it again the next day. And then over and over…
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Babies, beaches and big milestones
Nursery’s out for the summer – aka it’s shut for a week – so we’re currently staying down at my parent’s house in Bournemouth on a mini-break. They live by the sea so it always feels like being on holiday, and the weather has been very undecided, so it definitely feels like your typical British seaside…
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Don’t leave me this way – on separation anxiety, again
Separation anxiety has arrived in our house. Florence, who is just starting to explore the world around her, now wails like it’s ending if she can’t see me or isn’t being held. Oh baby, it seems like parting is unsweet sorrow.
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Late to the party
This summer, about three hundred years after everyone else, I finally bought myself some Saltwater sandals (they’re the ones that look like toddler shoes that everyone’s been raving about for ages). And guess what? They’re brilliant, who’d have thought? I don’t know why it took so long – I’ve had them in my virtual shopping…
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Swingball, Screwballs and sprinkler bans – the summers of my childhood
Having a toddler who’s now old enough to really enjoy summer – and all the associated paddling pool paraphernalia – is bringing back so many memories about my own childhood, growing up in the 1980s and 1990s. Wasn’t the summer brilliant when we were younger? The six week holiday was second only to Christmas…