This is a little bit different from one of my usual parenting blogs but I actually think it's one of THE MOST IMPORTANT. Today I'm talking self-care and why as a parent self-care is a...

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...

Village Life Nurse Bracken is the reason I became a midwife. Growing up in a tiny English village, Levens, in the South of Cumbria near the Lake District, where families had their own midwife. It's...

Feeding schedules and demand feeding Demand feeding has become an overused and misinterpreted phrase. Formula-fed babies are rarely demand fed. It’s mainly breast-fed babies. Whilst this is a good thing in the early months, to...

It will get better One of the big things I hear mums told is, "It gets better at 3 months."This then moves onto 4 months, 5 months, 6 months etc. You get the picture? We’re...

Angel The delicious little Tilly Belle was a complete angel up until three and a bit months old and then it went a bit Pete Tong (as in wrong). She was being breastfed (as was my first daughter...

Tongue-tie diagnosis My little man and I haven’t had an easy start in life. With a diagnosis of a tongue-tie at around 2.5 months and reflux at 3 months, the first few months had been...