Does having a baby change your appearance?
It’s a question that my friends and I have discussed at length. We all know someone who since having kids looks a lot older due to lack of sleep and stress, but we also always know of someone who’s the…
Family life
Everything family oriented on bubbablue and me, parenting, milestones, children, growing up
Highchairs in restaurants
What is it with highchairs in restaurants and their lack of trays? So many eating places provide high chairs for babies/toddlers, but so few of them seem to have trays. Ok, so it often means the high chairs are much…
Yummy buggy – review on Baby Jogger City Mini
Finished all my research on strollers and decided the Baby Jogger City mini was the one for us. So then on to the price research…my favourite task, although gathering up all my vouchers, online survey payments owed, cashback owed etc…
An unexpected sociable baby
My baby loves people…fact. I reckon he gets bored of seeing the same person for more than a morning, so we try and get out and about as often as possible to give us both lots of variety. I think…
Changing naptime patterns to monster sleeptimes
N certainly likes his sleep. We’ve gone from 30 minute daytime naps around 3-4 times a day, to mammoth 1 1/2-2 hour naptimes in mornings and afternoons. Quite handy in one sense as means there’s plenty of time for me…
Help your baby sleep with these easy methods
Now I’m writing this, I’ll probably jinx my son’s good sleep patterns. He’s always been a good sleeper (with a few blips around age 3). I wanted to share my easy methods to help your baby sleep. When you’ve a…
Warnings for motherhood (and benefits too)
Aside from the obvious, having to give birth and potential complications if you’re really unlucky, having a baby can be really dangerous. Motherhood is wonderful, and generally is full of positives. The bonding with your child, even if you might…
We have a tooth
Finally, we have the first tooth cut…true to form, N’s hit the average for having first tooth cut by 6 months. And, in a day of firsts, he’s also managed to stand up by himself with support. Wooo! My…
Baby Led Weaning vs purees
So, we’re 3 weeks in to baby led weaning. We’ve had no choking episodes so far. And have a baby who is trying everything that’s put in front of him. It’s a success so far. And I’m so relieved we…
Do you really need baby toys
*Ad-contains affiliate links It’s really hard not to go mad with buying all the baby toys you see. There’s obviously the ‘in’ toys, currently the Jumperoo (a brilliant activity centre come bouncer, which has fans & people against it due…
Baby led weaning has commenced
I’m really excited. The plan was to start baby led weaning at 6 months old, however apart from waking in the night, N does everything else on the ‘Are they ready?’ checklist. So we started the exploratory stage…my theory being…