Category: Baby

"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!


Cord blood stem cells – What would you do?

blood cellsNow that is a strange title for any post!

It starts off a bit like a horror movie, but it’s not really that complicated.

Let me start at the beginning…

A friend is pregnant, which is wonderful. However, she has a degenerative illness, which didn’t worry her TOO MUCH, until she got pregnant. Though she won’t pass her illness directly onto her baby, there is a risk. Read more »

FREE! Fruit and veg for UK mums

It’s not often I see something from the Government and I think – now that’s a great idea….
But…. the Healthy Start scheme really does deserve a heads up. I had not heard of it, and I wonder how many women that qualify are not told about it.

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Facebook decides baby name!

The story about a couple letting people on Facebook decide on their unborn child’s name is bizarre to say the least. Is this Web 2.0 gone mad?

Would you let people on Facebook decide on your baby’s name?

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The Childbirth Song

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!

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Baby bottle sterilisers – 1st attempt!

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 »