What to include in a healthy daily routine for kids Are you wondering what to include in a healthy daily routine for children? Here are ten suggestions for parenting to incorporate into your children’s morning schedule or after-school routine. How Important Is Routine For Children? It you’re a parent, you might be wondering about what…
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Your Period After Pregnancy: 5 Things No-one Tells You
Read moreOh, The Joy And Pain Of Your Period After Pregnancy… Just kidding! There’s not much joy when it comes to getting your period after pregnancy, is there? But your period after pregnancy is a whole world of pain, PMT and all the mood swings. The World Of Post-Pregnancy Body Weirdness Sound the Code Red, how…
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The 7 rules of the sleep deprivation society (for Meghan, Harry and all new parents)
Read moreHere are the seven rules of the sleep deprivation society (for Meghan, Harry and all new parents) From always putting cereal in the fridge through to forgetting your own name, here are the seven rules of the sleep deprivation society – a term mentioned yesterday by future monarch and current king of the bad dad…
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Buy the biggest bed you can: the secrets of co-sleeping parents
Read moreAre 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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When’s the right time to leave your baby overnight? (Yes, mine is nearly four…)
Read moreWhen is the right time to leave your baby overnight? When was the first time you left your baby overnight? I ask because last weekend, I left my baby overnight for the first time. Yes, the one who is four in two weeks (She’s still my baby! Also, when did that happen?) Don’t worry, they…
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We need to talk about childbirth
Read moreHours after giving birth to my first child, I had the post-baby shower. I distinctly remember staring in the hospital bathroom mirror at my unfamiliar face which was a pale shade of grey from blood loss, and said to myself ‘DON’T EVER DO THAT AGAIN.’ Despite having what was clearly the world’s best baby, and…
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Why we joined the Women’s March Anti-Trump protest
Read moreLast Friday Florence and I headed into London to take part in the Women’s March Bring the Noise protest that took place during the US president’s visit to the UK. We had a banner, we had a flag, we had many, many snacks, and we joined nearly 250,000 people* who marched through the streets of…
