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Why DOES Time Go So Fast With Your Second Baby? I want to stop the clock. Yesterday I took a photo of my baby boy to celebrate another mini milestone, as he turned yet another month older. Four months to be exact. Now a third of a year old, my son is well out of the newborn stage and very nearly ready to be weaned, and I honestly don't know how w...

'I didn't feel like me anymore, but what I was feeling didn't fit with the postnatal depression leaflet.' The other day I was going through notes on my phone and found a diary entry I'd written around six weeks after the birth of my first child. I opened it and started to read. It was tough going. Full of rage and frustration and alienation. I use words like 'frantic', 'exhausted', 'not coping'. I didn'...

19 things mums swore they'd never do, but did anyway Were you one of those mums-to-be’s who was convinced her baby would be exclusively breastfed, never be sat in front of the TV, and be in their own bed every night from the age of six months? Yep, me too. The reality, of course, turned out quite differently. Mums in our Community have shared the… Rea...

Your baby does NOT need to 'learn to self-settle' If you’re questioning the rightness of your desire to pick up your baby when he cries, or lie beside him as he falls to sleep, read this.

Mums reveal what it feels like to have a sweep I’ve been pregnant twice. I’ve been through two labours. I have two babies. And I’ve had about 30 sweeps. When I was overdue with my first, I was fully prepared when the midwife said “let’s give you a membrane sweep and see if we can get things moving.” It did nothing. So at my next appointment she…

A shocking number of us are using cot bumpers despite the risks After several weeks of having a newborn, when my daughter started to the shuffle, I had the fear. The worry she’d hit her head and hurt her teeny weeny little skull. So I did what many of us do – I bought cot bumpers. No one said they were dangerous. I never thought to check. They’re sold in shops.

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Living with PND and still making memories The first year of your baby’s life is one that will pass in a haze of lost sleep, milk feeds and lots of tears (from you and baby). But it is a year that you will treasure for the rest of your life and one that many unforgettable memories will have been made in.