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At 35 Weeks It’s Time to Take it Easy
I’m a little bit terrified that in a week’s time, Hungry Bear will be considered ‘full-term’ and developed and fat enough to enter the world and thrive. With 5 weeks to go until the required ‘40’, I’m...
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Lessons on Cankles
Hungry Bear has given me cankles*. They first appeared round about Week 32 but since hitting Week 37, I literally only have to look at my ankles for them to sprout. Maybe they were there already and...
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I’ll say it outright. I’ve worked with TEN Skincare so you would imagine I’d be biased towards this. And whilst I’ll let you know now, this is a positive review, it’s honestly written. Read on and...
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Dear HB, please go to sleep – getting a newborn to sleep
The one thing that I remember from pre-parent life is everyone warning me about the lack of sleep. “Say goodbye to lie-ins!” they said, almost gleefully. HB is now almost 3 months old and we’ve had a...
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HB goes swimming for the first time
As I looked in the mirror, my hair wet and tangled and my foot slightly damp after I’d jammed a sock on without really drying properly, I adjusted my hurriedly thrown on jumper and there it glinted. A...
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Hungry Bear’s First Flight: Flying Longhaul with a Newborn
“Go big or go large,” that was our motto. So go big we went indeed and decided to take HB with us on husband’s work trip. To Australia. It’s no secret that the flight was my biggest worry, especially...
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HB Eats: Sweetcorn Fritters Recipe for Babies
Baby hands love sweetcorn fritters! These are a fab way to get a bunch of veg into your child’s diet whilst at the same time supporting baby-led weaning. Little hands can also easily grasp the fritters...
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HB Eats: Baby Oat Bars Recipe
I used to make a version of these baby oat bars that were great for teething – they were hard and biscuit-like and HB could gnaw on it for AGES before they got too soft. However, HB is now in a weaning...
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Welcome Back Old Friend
On the 25th June, exactly 319 days after HB was born (or 10 months and 15 days), my period returned. I’d always known this time would arrive, especially since I’d cut down breast-feeding quite a lot....
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HB goes cold turkey on the boob
On HB’s 15th month ‘birthday’, the decision was unconsciously made to stop breast-feeding HB. It was something I’d thought about for a while, but there had never been a good enough reason to stop. If...
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Baby Changing Bags – Storksak VS Fact + Fiction VS Fjallraven
I’ve realised that I’ve experimented with 3 baby changing bags since HB arrived in August 2016. For some reason, I was quite fixated on having the ‘right’ baby changing bag, after all, this was going...
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KX Life – the ultimate pregnancy massage in London
I’m 39 weeks pregnant, have just realised I’ve got SPD and have been running about like a headless chicken. So what to do? Book in a pregnancy massage! For my birthday last month (was it really only...
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What to pack in your hospital bag
With HB, I spent AGES deliberating what to pack in my maternity bag. My friend, whose little one had a similar due date to myself, sent me a list of everything I needed. There were a LOT of things on...
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HB Eats: Kanada-Ya Kids Menu Review
HB is a foodie, just like his mama. And just like his mama, he loves Asian food. Ok, so he’s not yet come around to accepting dumplings but I’m sure he will… We had our most recent foodie adventure at...
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An interview with Sophie & Effie, from Sleep Thief
Most new mums struggle to wash their hair and get out the house but not Sophie and Effie. Alongside changing nappies, nappy rash and surviving sleep regressions, they decided to change how sleep suits...
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Hape Grow With Me Rocking Horse
The Hape Grow With Me Rocking Horse is aimed at babies from 10 months old. Coming with a removable guard rail and back rest, it is designed to outlive most childrens’ toys, whose shelf life is...
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