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One born every minute – Dads

ByEmma April 11, 2018

One Born Every Minute starts again on Channel 4 at 9pm this Wednesday 4th January, with the theme of dads. They’ve linked up with NetMums to get people to share their birth experiences and here’s mine with my thoughts on the…

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Christmas | Parenting

Oh Christmas tree

ByEmma June 17, 2018

If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I was struggling to get agreement to put the christmas tree up…excuses given mainly revolved around “it’s dangerous with a nearly one year old”. Thankfully, after a lot of moaning and hints…

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Milestones

1st birthday preparations

ByEmma June 17, 2018

Well, I say 1st birthday preparations, but actually I’ve not started thinking about them, other to agree that our NCT joint 1st birthday party can be held at our house, and to debate whether we need to have a specific…

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Parenting

Nursery newbie

ByEmma June 17, 2018

It’s now less than a month to go before N starts at day nursery as I go back to work then. I had a bit of a panic when I realised I’d not heard anything since sending off my cheque…

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Parenting

A-Z of baby led weaning food experiences

ByEmma March 17, 2021

Food’s always a worrying thing when it comes to babies. If it’s your first, you’re probably scared of weaning and how it’ll go, then once they’re eating it’s a worry about how much or what they should be eating. I…

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Parenting

Flirting baby

ByEmma June 17, 2018

My boy’s a flirt. Even when he’s ill (which he’s been this weekend). He loves people and has always been a smiler; whenever we’re out and about, I’ll see people smiling and talking to him across the room, and when…

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Health and fitness | Parenting

Our hand foot and mouth experience with a baby

ByEmma June 17, 2018

We’ve been quite lucky compared to some of my friends, in that N’s not really been ill much…a touch of diarrhoea, a couple of colds, but thankfully nothing’s really hit him too badly (touch wood this continues). But last week…

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Family life

Keeping in touch days

ByEmma June 17, 2018

I’m officially off maternity leave now (as of yesterday)…so getting paid again (yippee!) as I’m now on annual leave until I start back in January. I’ve been doing a few keeping in touch days which are a great idea –…

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Books | Parenting

Encouraging babies to enjoy books

ByEmma June 17, 2018

Oooh, I found this test your vocab to test the size of your vocabulary. Ok, so it’s nothing to do with children (well, if you have kids, you can test theirs as well which will help with the researchers), but…

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Milestones | Photography

Photo queuing

ByEmma June 17, 2018

I love getting proper professional photos taken of my baby. Of course I take loads of my own photos, but you can never get a nice background (unless you want to set the place up properly). It’s lovely to have…

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Parenting | Swimming

Baby separation anxiety at swimming

ByEmma December 30, 2020

One of the groups we decided to do was swimming. I’m really keen that N will enjoy being in the water, not be scared of it and be a good swimmer at an early age. I quite enjoy swimming although…

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