Demand Feeding
I have been talking to parents and I have heard conflicting views and lack of understanding about demand feeding. Demand feeding is responding to your baby’s cues when she is …
Can You Ever Really Be Mentally Prepared For The Arrival Of A Newborn?
I have been experiencing Braxton-Hicks contractions all day. Baby is not due for another 10 days and despite the fact that I have been experiencing a tightening of my belly, …
Having a Home Birth
From the moment I found out I was pregnant with my daughter I knew I wanted a ‘home birth.’ But this was my first pregnancy and I wasn’t sure if …
Feeding Twins – the best of both worlds!
When having twins you get a lot of negative comments one such comment was: “You’ll be bottle feeding then.” Well actually there is no reason why you can’t totally breastfeed …
What sort of travelling do we do!
As a family, once a year we hike up Mount Snowdon with children in tow and we can spend up to 4 hours in the car traveling to the Wales. …
Baby Routine – What To Do If You Don’t Have Enough Time?
If I could turn back time… …and no this isn’t some homage to Cher and her cannon straddling, leather trousered, tousled hair tossing song It’s a moment to think about …
Dealing with frayed tempers at Christmas
There is no other time of the year that is quite the same as Christmas. The festive season demands so much from you. Not only must you rush around for …
Avoiding the Holiday Gimmees…A Few Things We Do
Do your kids find Christmas more than a little tempting when it comes to making lists of all the toys they just have to have? It’s hardly surprising when you consider the …
Life after birth trauma
I have often heard the phrase about time being a great healer, but I’m no longer sure that I believe that. Since my son was born in December 2009, I’m …
Swaddling and Deswaddling
Before I was pregnant with the Boy swaddling a baby was something I had never heard of (I realised after being pregnant and having a baby that there were a …