Category: Pregnancy and Baby

Oct 08
Presents For A One Year Old

Third baby in and choosing birthday presents can be tricky! Especially when it’s for a first birthday and you want something a little special.   We’re trying to be more aware of what we’re buying and bringing into the house because, as any parents know, the amount of toys can build up really, really quickly! We […]

Oct 04
Motherhood – My Year of Firsts and Lasts

And just like that, our Baby Girl turned one. And it really does feel it happened that way .. just like that .. just like that we went from having a tiny little newborn who arrived in a slightly more complicated than expected way … to just like that … a one year old girl, […]

Sep 21
Newborn Essentials – Wipes and Nappy Cream

As first time parents it can seem like there are so many things to consider and so many first choices and first moments. While we are now three kids in, we can still remember those times before first born arrived and we really didn’t know what was what!   One thing we were certain of […]

Sep 18
Baby Essentials for First Few Months

I’m so delighted that I kept a Pregnancy Journal throughout all of my pregnancies … I love having them to look back on (whenever I get the time to do that in the future!!!) and I also loved comparing the weeks of each pregnancy and seeing how I felt, how baby was moving differently each […]

May 28
Baby Sleeping Bags

We believe that sleep and your baby is very personal to your baby and your house so we always say follow your baby and your thoughts. For us, we let our babies sleep as they will for the first 3 months .. arms, cocoon, fed to sleep, hugged to sleep … however they want! Those […]

May 14
Weaning Your Baby – A Brief Overview

Lots of chat about weaning at the moment, with it being National Weaning Week last week as well. Our third born, is mid weaning and all good so far! We are doing the same with her as we did with the other two … part purée / mash, part baby led (where the babies hold […]

Apr 30
Family Storage Solutions – Nappy Changing Basket

With our first born, I always brought her upstairs to change her throughout the day. However, once baby two and then baby three came along .. that no longer made sense!!   I didn’t want the clutter of having a second changing unit so I got a basket instead and filled it with all the […]

Apr 19
Vitamin D for Babies

  When everyone else seems to have the real deal and you still have to make use of the health shop variety!! Come on sunshine … where are you?! We’re just all types of grey and dreary here in the ‘sunny’ south!!       While we know the best source of Vitamin D is […]

Apr 17
Tips for Teething Babies

If ever we doubt whether something is too obvious to talk about when it comes to baby / kid / family life, we just think back to the time when Nelsons and Nuby didn’t mean anything to us… we didn’t even know they existed!!! Three babies later that seems like a very long time ago […]

Mar 07
‘A Kiss Like This’ by Mary Murphy

The first book bought for our little family was this gorgeous book “A Kiss Like This” by Irish author, Mary Murphy @bigpicturebooks  We bought it before our first baby was born (Queen Bee who is now 3 and 1/2 years) She still enjoys it and so too do her brother, Small Man who is almost 2 […]

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