• On the right foot – children, shoes and choices

    July 15, 2015

       My daughter has a new thing; deliberately wearing her shoes on the wrong feet. Funny, right..? Well, let me explain.

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  • Amazing new parenting life hacks to try right now

    June 24, 2015

    Looking for some new parenting life hacks to help out with those pesky but common parenting problems? Here’s three problem-solving quick fixes we’ve been sent to review and have been trying out recently. New parenting life hacks 1) The vest that’s also a secret dribble bib…

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  • If baby milestone cards were made for mums…

    May 12, 2015

    Who’s seen baby milestone cards? They’re the cards that capture significant events in a baby’s first year – each weekly and monthly birthday, that all-important first smile or those initial wobbly Bambi-zombie steps, for example – that you use in a photo of your child taken when each  event happens. As well as being cute…

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  • How one breast pad can ruin your entire day

    February 20, 2015

    One evening this week Alex made a shock discovery that sent a chill down my spine and left ice deep in the pit of my stomach. “The washing machine appears to have broken.” I nearly dropped the sleeping baby. What..? How could this have happened? What were we going to do?

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  • Star Wars Saturdays and the circular nature of parenting

    February 19, 2015

    While you can kiss goodbye to luxurious lie-ins when you’re a parent, Alex and I occasionally try and give each other a bit of a longer sleep at weekends. It’s a tiny, tantalising reward for those nights of mid-week wake-up woes that inevitably culminate in all of us squashed in one bed, with the toddler…

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  • 15 Parenting Hacks: The BEST Tips Baby Books Won’t Tell You

    February 5, 2015

    If You Have A Baby, Here Are 15 Parenting Hacks Baby Books Won’t Tell You Here are 15 parenting hacks for if you’ve just had a baby…if you have, congratulations! When I was pregnant I wrote a list of pregnancy life hacks (these are simple tips that are slightly obvious and make everything much easier). I…

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  • New Year’s Eve, new baby style

    December 31, 2014

    What are everyone’s plans for New Year’s Eve? Like lots of people, I have a fairly ambiguous relationship with the night. I spent the majority of my 20s going out, so all the fuss about one extra and ultra-expensive evening seemed unnecessary. But then it was another excuse to go out – so why not?…

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