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Making it Through the First Few Months Even if you think you are fully prepared for the first few months of being a new parent, you’ll soon find that there will be times when you still feel rather out of your depth. This season can introduce many new feelings and many of us constantly wonder how best to navigate the needs of this brand new season with a precious little person whose needs us so much. While everybody’s experiences are different, nobody expects the first few months to be completely easy, but there are certainly some great tips for making everyday life run a little smoother.  Here are a few ways that can help you make it through those all-important first months. Be sure to accept help You’re not

How Skin-to-skin Contact Makes Life Easier During your pregnancy, you are as close to your child as you possibly could be. You’re their source of protection and nutrition, so that bond is vital. Though, after giving birth, you find that this type of connection is suddenly taken away – your child no longer has direct access to your body to fulfill their own needs. It can be quite a surreal experience and a very discomforting feeling for many, which is why a lot of mothers recommend immediate skin-to-skin contact to make life easier. It’s recommended that the naked child is placed on the mother’s bare chest for a couple of hours after birth. This mimics that closeness that the child felt when in the womb and helps

Healthy Thinking Tips to Lift You Up Every Day Having babies and young children can truly be exhausting. Exhilarating too, but when you’re in the thick of it, it’s the exhaustion we tend to focus on the most. It is important to be strong in your thinking, to keep perspective on the tiring day …so here are some tips within the chaos that will help you get through. Enjoy the chaos OK, the baby just committed what can only be deemed as a crime against humanity in her nappy, the dishwasher’s bust and the delivery guy is ringing the doorbell. You know what? Keep laughing because even though it sounds like a chapter hard to believe …in a week’s time, you won’t even remember this. Remember that each new

Tips for Life with a Toddler OK, you’re through the baby phase and you might even get the occasional unbroken night’s sleep (yay!). Now, however, you’re into a whole new ball game as you have a mobile, verbal, usually very active (with no fear)  toddler. Just like every baby, every toddler is different, but here are eight tips universally acknowledged to make life with a toddler easier. Don’t panic when they try to eat a snail Your toddler will put pretty much everything they pick up in their mouth as it’s a great way to see how it feels, how it tastes and whether it has any nutritional benefit. Nine times out of ten they’ll spit it straight out; just keep an eye on them and if they

You Are Braver than You Think, Stronger than You Seem – Its True. The second thing that comes into your head when you look at that positive pregnancy test result is “How much will labour hurt? Is there any way out?” Well, this is an age-old question that too many women who’ve given birth are only too keen to answer. Countless newly-pregnant women are regaled with horror stories by their own mothers, their friends and random women in the street. Quite why this happens is a mystery; it’s possible that many women rarely get such a receptive audience and so they just unload. It’s not done out of malice, but it can really (excuse the pun) rattle any expectant mums. Here’s the actual lowdown on childbirth. Yes, it

Live, Laugh, Love – How to Maintain a Healthy Perspective in the Baby Years Once your bump starts to show you’ll get strangers telling you that you have no idea what you’re in for…and rinse…and repeat… This is true, as although humankind have been reproducing for quite some time now, each new life is unique, as are your circumstances, and this means no-one will go through what you will go through in the first year or so of parenthood. Don’t fight it Chances are, unless you get really lucky, you’ll have months of interrupted sleep, get covered in milk, poo, spit and puree at least once a day for…oooh, quite some time. Chances also are that you’ll love most of it, too. It’s an unbelievably intense phase and it seems

Is Your Toddler Too Big to Carry? Ergonomic Carrying solutions – can be a life saver for you and your child. If you’ve been wearing your baby for a while, one day you will have a surprising revelation that your baby has grown into a toddler. Once this happens, as you continue to enjoy those special times of baby carrier convenience and fun, you may start wondering about this precious season called toddlerhood. If you’re asking yourself if your toddler is now too old or too heavy to carry in a sling, think about how often you’d be carrying him in your arms if you didn’t have your trusty carrier for support. We all know how toddlers work – they run around, then ask to go

It’s a Sling! Keep it Simple. The Result is worth it. If you’re new to Babywearing then take the time to practice with your lightweight sling, preferably at home by yourself first and then with a well-fed and rested baby! Slings are a very popular choice – particularly in the first 6 months and many families alternate between a wrap, sling and soft structured carrier. Slings can be very quick to put on, convenient to store in a neat pouch in your nappy bag , and breathability can add to the coolness of keeping bub close with some air ventilation for you both. Here’s a walkthrough for you to get you started. Getting your sling ready Watch a demonstration video of someone putting on and adjusting their