"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer,
bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten,
and the future worth living for." - unknown author
Bringing your newborn home for the 1st time can be the best feeling in the world, even so you still can have many questions. The articles below will hopefully help you, reassure you, and most importantly let you know - you are not alone!
I’ve posted this video for 1 reason only – it is so funny!
Every time I watch it, it makes me laugh so much. She sings about the ‘joys’ of childbirth, in a way that is true yet is funny. You may have seen it before, but you never tire of watching a classic again!
I was 8 months pregnant with our 1st child. We bought a bottle steriliser and some powdered baby formula (along with everything else that we did and didn’t need!) It looked complicated, and we didn’t want to get it wrong when the baby came along.
We only bought the formula in the scenario that breast feeding didn’t work out. This was the case in the end, it just didn’t work out for me and the baby. So I am glad we had some formula in stock. Read more »
Something that worried me before my baby was born was how they should sleep. I was really worried about cot death (SIDS) and wanted to do everything I could to make it as unlikely as possible.
When I was young, preschool kids TV meant Playschool each morning and Bagpuss or the Flumps if I was lucky. We certainly had no dedicated Kids TV Channel.
It is probably impossible for children today to imagine only 3 TV channels and no kids TV on a Sunday. Black Beauty was the best Sunday TV had to offer in my day. Read more »
I just love this video! Such a simple idea to take photos every day for 12 months of your baby’s life. It is made even better by a brilliant choice of song to go with it.
We took so many photos of our baby, not wanting to forget a single moment. Now it seems to be artwork he brings home from nursery that is filling up the cupboards… can’t throw a single piece away though! Read more »
