Pexels Image With your first child, the experience of how to feed them is all new. You question yourself, for how long should I do it? What if the baby does not start feeding? How much should I feed them? and countless other frantic questions pop into your head, as you venture into the…
Weaning is still definitely on the cards with Baby G but the bottles I bought when he was a newborn (which hold eight ounces) do not fill enough liquid in them for his growing tummy so I had a dilemma. Would I have to make two five ounce bottles? Just think of how many times…
We had a but of a shock this week. Following on from my Chemist Direct review, we had three boxes of Baby G’s formula stock piled. As he is draining 9 ounces at each feed though, it is not lasting as long as it used to and, by Friday, I was thinking…
When I was pregnant with Boo, someone recommended that I should get Dr Brown’s bottles. There are so many different brands to choose from, I was actually glad I didn’t have to stand before the bottle displays in the shops, scratching my head. Compared to other bottles, I did feel they were a bit…
Whether you’re exclusively bottle feeding or combination feeding with the breast, if there is any kind of formula going on with your baby, there is one item everyone needs. A Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Perfect Prep machine. It is the holy grail of formula feeding. I plan to write my breastfeeding story at a…
Recently, I took part in a twitter discussion on parenting stigmas. My, do we live in a judgemental world. It seems mothers can’t win no matter what they do and guess who our biggest critics are? Other mothers. To be honest, you’ve barely come down from the euphoria of giving birth before it starts. Mums…
When you’re pregnant with your first child and just after you’ve had it, you enter a period of utopia where you imagine everything to be perfect. Clean, fluffy blankets. Everything is new. You imagine a set of ideals in your head, a goalpost of sorts which you measure everything against. Some time later, these goal…
I don’t know if it is a gift. I am sure my husband would say it is a weakness. I can’t help falling for animals. Yes we live on a farm and despite once being vegetarian, I do accept that the business we are in is killing for food and I accept that. It puts…