Competitive Parents It starts from the moment new Mummies get together. There seems to be this compelling need to ‘win’ amongst some parents. Whether it is how many hours of sleep they got last night, how early their baby smiles [...]
We do a pretty amazing job us mums really don’t we? We carry our little bundles of joy to be around for nine months, nurturing them, feeling pretty rotten at times, making sacrifices for the sake of their well-being and [...]
Having a baby is amazing, and I think that my 17 month old is the most wonderful little thing in the world. But it wasn’t always like that; when she was born I didn’t love her, and I’m not really [...]
If you are anything like me, once the initial excitement of finding out that you are expecting a baby has died down, you do go into a frenzy of excitement about buying baby things. Even if you’re not a hardened [...]
According to the Money Advice Service, parents spend on average £10,300 (inc child care) on their baby in the first year alone. This is obviously a huge amount of money, which would scare any new parent! So in this article [...]
The school run – its only a 10 minute walk for us. We have to leave the house by 8.30 to get her into school gates at 8.40. Its the most stressful manoeuvre a parent can muster. I shall tell [...]
The Mafia exists in every school playground, its just some mums (and dads) are better at ignoring it than others. Me, I see it from every corner on the walk to school. The first group are found on the road [...]
As per my previous blog post, I struggled until I was about 14 weeks pregnant with Hyperemesis Gravidarum (severe pregnancy sickness). Unfortunately for me and my family, because of this experience I found bonding with my unborn daughter extremely difficult [...]
Prior to my child bearing days, (which as my son is only 18 months old weren’t actually that long ago) I took real pride in handbags amongst other things like shoes and clothes etc. My handbag would display a beautiful [...]
My daughter Niamh is nearly three months old now, and I have to say that those first few weeks of Motherhood were wonderful but down right hard work. If I could have told myself then what I know now, this [...]
