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Everything family oriented on bubbablue and me, parenting, milestones, children, growing up

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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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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Family life | Milestones

Christening Day

ByEmma June 17, 2018

Okay so it was a while ago now, but thought I’d better share what we did for N’s christening (or is it baptism? I never know. I call it christening, the vicar said baptism, but he never corrected me so…

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Family visits

ByEmma June 17, 2018

We don’t get to see my nan that frequently. Well, my mum does (it’s my dad’s mum rather than hers) her duty and regularly visits, takes her shopping & out for lunch, but as my nan never goes out any…

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Parenting

Nappy change wriggler

ByEmma June 17, 2018

Arrrgghhh! My guess is that there’s lots of mums (and dads, grans etc) struggling with their wriggling babies during nappy change times. Ours has started to get ridiculous over the last couple of days with N flipping straight onto his…

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Parenting

Bad mum

ByEmma June 17, 2018

All mums have occasions where they believe they’re a bad mum, most of them are normal parts of having a baby or child growing up: The bumps when they’re learning to crawl: so far N’s managed to pull the clothes…

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Milestones | Music

Music is the food of baby love

ByEmma June 17, 2018

I love music and I really want N to like and appreciate it as I was able to growing up and now. Since 3 months old I’ve been taking him to Rhythm Time which builds up over the ages up…

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Parenting

Baby brain must be true

ByEmma June 17, 2018

I’m usually a really organised person – lists are definitely close to my heart, and since having N they’ve been more crucial than ever. I (think) I was fine when I was pregnant (on the whole – only a couple…

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