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Your guide to keeping you & your kids fit and healthy while home-schooling
Stuck at home again on lockdown with no walk to school, no P.E. and maybe even no garden? Here’s how you keep your kids fit (and you!) while home-schooling. I was asked by Marie Claire magazine to give some tips on how to stay active during this crazy time. It’s been well shown that being […]
Continue readingSpending Time Outdoors: Why it’s Important for Your Family’s Health
Call it a generational gap but kids today don’t spend as much time outdoors as their parents used to. The Independent reported that they get exposed to screens twice as much as they get quality outdoors time. On average, kids get four hours of screen time everyday, much of which is unsupervised. As it turns out, […]
Continue readingBaby milk, weaning and boobs!
Mother and Baby Magazine asked me once again for some advice on weaning, breastfeeding and dairy free infant alternatives, so here’s the reader questions answered below. You can read other Mother & Baby Mag q&a’s I’ve done here and here. Click on the picture to go to the pdf of read my answers […]
Continue readingHealthy Blog roundup
Last year I became the BritMums health & fitness roundup editor and since then have published loads of healthy blog roundups, tips, recipes and more. Here’s the best for you to enjoy and be inspired from. BritMums is a parenting website and online community to discuss all things motherhood in a supportive, non-judgemental environment. They […]
Continue readingMe, where are you? On finding yourself after Motherhood
It was one dark cosy evening in November when I sobbed and screamed on the sofa while my husband sat there utterly bewildered. Why had this caring selfless wife and mother suddenly changed her mind? Let’s go back to 1997, with the body of an 18-year-old. An early developer, put me in a mini […]
Continue readingWhen Your Child is Suddenly Admitted to Hospital
It was a regular cough-cold followed by a regular tummy bug. But nothing could have prepared me as a parent for the trauma of my child being rushed to hospital with severe but undiagnosable symptoms that left her getting sicker by the minute. I originally wrote this for parenting website The Motherload here, but it’s […]
Continue readingWill a Baby Sleep Soother work on older children?
Poor sleepers, I empathise. Some nights I couldn’t fall asleep if you paid me. So I tried a baby sleep soother to see if it help both me and the kids drift off. Sleep is so important for all aspects of health; it’s when your body regenerates and repairs, and without enough sleep everything […]
Continue readingDaft Things We Do as First Time Parents (that never made life easier)
Having a baby is a massive decision for anyone, but for first time parents? THE biggest overhaul life will ever take. With constant pressure to keep up with those parents who are breezing through it getting everything perfectly right, combined with Mother Nature’s blessing in disguise that makes us mothers settle for no less […]
Continue readingMummy Bloggers You Should be Following
Motherhood is wonderful but very tough. So when it all gets too much and you feel like you can’t cope, here’s a list of the top Mummy Bloggers to help you realise you’re not alone. Whether it’s teething tips, healthy after school snacks, you’re feeling guilty because you forgot the tooth fairy (again) or […]
Continue readingWhy Do We Have To Make Lists For Daddy?
Every time I go out for longer than half a day, child-free, I have to make a list as long and comprehensive as the NHS budget report just to make sure the day runs smoothly. Yep, a little off topic from my usual body-health-food-fitness rants, but this was a piece I wrote on one […]
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