NCT Classes…25 Things They Don’t Tell You…But Definitely Should Are you thinking about taking NCT classes or an NCT antenatal classes? We did take one when I was pregnant for the first time. So what are NCT classes? Are NCT groups worth the expense? And what are the things about pregnancy, labour and babies they don’t…
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Five signs maternity leave is over
1) I’m on cup of tea number three that I made and drank while *still hot.* Just for the novelty factor, of course, not because everyone in my house was up all night coughing and I need all the caffeine… 2) This morning I ate a piece of toast and didn’t have to share it.…
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We need to talk about the post-pregnancy rage…
We *really* need to talk about the post-pregnancy rage… Warning: contains mildly cross content… The trip on the post-partum emotional roller coaster can be a bumpy ride, can’t it? There are so many highs and lows, often all at once. There’s the post-birth elation and exhaustion, then the tired and tearful joys starting on day…
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We’re MAD Blog Award finalists! Nine reasons to vote for us…
I interrupt these ongoing baby rambles to bring you the news that…we are finalists in the 2015 MAD Blog Awards in the best pregnancy blog category. Cue crazy faces and baby-faced selfies. I’m completely thrilled and amazed; the biggest of thank yous to everyone who nominated us. My blog is a labour of love and it means…
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Mother’s ruin; a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover
Mother’s ruin…here’s a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover… The post-pregnancy hangover…a guide Oh, the whole world of pain that is the post-pregnancy hangover… After years of practice throughout my teens and twenties, I thought I knew hangovers. Ha! I was wrong. One of the less well-known pregnancy side effects is that you turn…
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If baby milestone cards were made for mums…
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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Future mum of two? Here’s my (non) advice…
What advice would a mum who’s a future mum of two…? So the world is on high alert for news of the new royal baby, in case you’ve failed to notice as you’ve been living on Mars, or under a rock, or just, you know, really busy. As an aside, surely the only thing worse…