Homemade Baby Porridge Oats
Making your own baby porridge is super easy and it’s a much cheaper way to feed a baby than the packaged variety. Baby porridge is a favourite food parents are choosing to feed their baby. Soft and creamy with a very mild flavour it’s a great first food. Many baby...
Maternal Anxiety
Anxiety is a far more common issue with new mums than postnatal depression. For many women, anxiety, not sadness, is what they feel after having their baby. It can start in pregnancy and once the baby is born grow to a whole new level. Up to one in five pregnant or...
Toddler Jumping Out of Cot
Here is a typical toddler sleep problem parents tear their hair out over! Hi Karen,I had a consult last year and I think I still have 1 follow up question. Please let me know if I don’t... We have now reached the toddler (22 months) bed stage and sleeping has gone out...
Defiance And The Toddler
Separate Individual Your toddler is now aware she is a separate individual and she loves to test the boundaries. She's learning about cause and effect e.g. if I do this what will mum do? It is a toddlers job to be oppositional and they are certainly an expert at this...
Talipes A Congenital Foot Abnormality
Common birth defect of the feet Talipes is a fairly common issue in newborn babies, affecting 1 in every 1000 births and affecting one or both of the baby’s feet. The cause is unknown and is thought to be due to the position of the baby in the uterus. Positional...
10 tantrum diffusers
Mini Dictator Mantra's To Diffuse The Most Tricky Situation Here are my top 10 favourite phrases to see a tantrum off at the pass. Guaranteed to keep you calm and in control. Print out and pop them on the fridge and in no time these will be second nature to you. These...
Limit setting for your baby 0-12 months
Limit Setting Toddlers are designed to push boundaries and it comes naturally to these cute little mini dictators. The danger as their parent is you forget to maintain your boundary or limit setting. Until the toddler's boundary becomes the new status quo. Then you...
Paleo Sweet Potato Fritters a great finger food for 6 months plus
I'm always on the lookout for supereasy recipes for busy parents and their babies. This great finger food recipe comes courtesy of The Merrymakersisters and it sounds seriously delish. It only takes 10 minutes to prep and 20 minutes to cook so all done and ready to...
How your newborn baby tells you they need a milk feed?
A baby will tell you they want a feed by their body language. It's important to properly observe your baby to avoid missing early and mid sleep cues. Once you miss those early cues your baby can get beyond hunger and become hysterical very quickly. Newborns are very...
I kept telling myself that his sleep would improve
Case study I just had to share this amazing case study of a family with a 14 month old toddler, Christian who was waking many times at night. Mum was so exhausted she'd lost her confidence and was co-sleeping and breastfeeding to sleep. Mum kept telling herself that...