Parenting in a Pandemic
Coronavirus. COVID-19. Social distancing. Face masks? Months ago, these strange terms and government restrictions may have seemed unimagi...
Baby Sleeping Bags with Merino Kids
My baby has entered his sixth month in the world and he seems to be changing and growing every day. He is now sitting up unaided and is r...
Inspiring Interview with Little Tummy
In this week's blog, I interviewed Dr. Sophie Niedermaier-Patramani, mother, paediatrician and co-founder of the award winning, Little Tu...
Menopause for Thought
Menopause. A natural part of ageing and it affects half the world's population but it still feels like a taboo subject when it really doe...
Managing Hair Fall, Postpartum
Why does hair fall feel like a taboo subject? During my pregnancy, I was in awe of my shiny locks and I received so many compliments on h...
Hannah the Spanner Books from Stuart Simmonds
It was my pleasure to interview Stuart Simmonds, former Sussex Cricket player and now successful author. Creator of 'Hannah the Spanner',...
Wear it Well with Really Wild Clothing
Over the past few years, conversations have continued to grow on the environmental impact of everything we do. From plastic bags to reusa...
Why Don’t We Talk about Periods?
My daughter is almost eleven and if there is one thing we need to discuss soon…it is periods. A friend once told me a true story about a ...
Inspiring Interview with Helen Butters
It was my absolute pleasure to interview Helen Butters, who is one of the four Yorkshire women to row 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocea...
Reframing the New Normal
None of us have a crystal ball to determine what life may be like after the Covid-19 crisis. In the present, life looks a little like thi...
Father’s Day – are we at a point of real change in gender equality?
Guest blog by Han Son Lee, Founder of Daddilife Today is Father’s Day. This is a good time to look at how dad’s role at home and work may...
Inspiring Interview with John Adams (DadBlogUK)
Photo credit: John Adams With Fathers Day on the horizon this Sunday, I wanted to add a few more dads onto my blog this week. First up, w...
3 Early Signs of Pregnancy with Emma’s Diary
My baby is four months old and I feel like this time has passed by in a flash. I was 5+ weeks by the time I took a pregnancy test. I couldn’t believe that my body had been building another baby inside me. For me, even after having two [...]
Finding my Mojo in Lockdown
Hands up if some days you are feeling tired and lethargic? Brain fog causing you to find it harder than normal to do your daily tasks? Just struggling to find your motivation? You are not alone. I recently read in a magazine article that Dr Jessamy Hibberd says [...]
Going Green with GANT – Fashion Made Sustainable
I love clothes. Just like many women who love fashion, I have plenty of them. It is hard to believe that around 100 billion items of clothing are delivered out of garment factories around the world every year. Collectively, the world’s population buys 400 per cent more clothes than [...]
Introducing Little B from Bramley Products
I would be surprised if you had not heard of Bramely, as they have been all over a variety of magazines over the last twelve months. Bramley reached out to me some time ago and kindly gifted me some free products and here I am writing about them [...]
The Puffin Festival of Big Dreams
Many of us would agree that the importance of reading for children should not be underestimated. Numerous studies will tell you that reading for pleasure can benefit a child’s education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health. But, it's not just that. Reading is an amazing [...]
Creating Photo Books to Cherish
I was wondering how I could use some of this strange time in lockdown to get some of those 'jobs' done which have been on my list for ages. One of those jobs was to create a few more photo books. To try and get those precious photos from [...]
Screen Rules Don’t Apply Right Now
I chatted to my best friend on the phone this week and she said "our screen time rules have gone out the window." She was right. Our screen time parameters had disappeared too. TV, iPads...who cares? Surely as long as we balance it with plenty of time outside, I [...]
Understanding the Whole Brain Child
As a mother of a confident ten-year-old daughter and a very busy (often emotional) eight-year-old son, I sometimes feel I need all the parenting help I can get. “Being present” is a phrase a lot of people use these days, especially when it comes to raising children. We want [...]
It’s okay not to be productive during a pandemic
My husband came in from work (He is still commuting to London every day due of the nature of his job). He asked me how my day was. I told him I felt like I had a really 'unproductive' day. And, I will be honest...I felt a little bit [...]
