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Posted 2 day(s) ago by Emma Button
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Somebody said something to me the other day that made my eyes open widely, “If a child is baby-led weaned, how will they ever learn to use a knife and fork?” Well, let me tell you! Firstly, I should say that baby-led weaning has worked well for us; I highly recommend it but you also know that I’m not a devout BLW-er, I took the practical approach and spoon-fed when it suited us. Lara has seen me spoon feed her from 4 months old. She knows what a spoon is and what a spoon is for. At 7 months old, Lara first started eating yoghurts unaided. Yes it was messy, but it gave her a level of independence and slowly started exercising her manual dexterity. Children are clever. They copy you. Even if I had never offer...
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Posted 6 day(s) ago by Emma Sheppard
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Apparently us Mum's do the jobs of 23 professionals according to the Express and this is one newspaper article I don't disagree with. I would say I did at least 5 before breakfast this morning. I remember blogging before about all the different roles we take on as Mother's. It's true though isn't it, us full time Mother's work a 12 hour day everyday. That's 7am to 7pm of keeping the children happy and entertained and completing our never ending lists. I used to feel ashamed when asked what do I do for a living and I responded that I'm a stay at home Mother , I didn't want them to think that meant I was a lazy person who stayed at home. Before I became a Mother I would of shrugged it off as a easy ...
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Posted 7 day(s) ago by Vic Pires
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(Otherwise known as 'how the hell do I explain BLW to my Nan?') Most Sundays we have dinner at the mother's. It's a bit of a tradition really; as kids we always went to Nan's for lunch and in the absence of enough place for us all to sit at their new house, we all head to the mother's instead. Usually we eat a roast dinner – even in the merciless heat of the summer – except when the sister complains that we always eat a roast. Then the mother cooks something different and we all complain we wanted a roast – we only do it to needle the sister. Read on at Glowstars.net .
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Posted 9 day(s) ago by Vic Pires
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I like sitting down with TB and playing games: board games; card games; anything with a solid set of rules really. He cheats otherwise. Only it’s not called cheating in his book, it’s called making sure he wins. The trouble is, it’s really difficult to find something challenging enough that he doesn’t get bored but at the same time not so difficult that he doesn’t want to play. Read on at Glowstars .
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Posted 3 week(s) ago by Emma Button
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We have, officially, dropped the dummy. Yay! We didn't do it consciously... it just kinda happened. I never really intended to give Lara a dummy at all. I bought some before the birth just because I felt it was the right thing to do; just another one of those things on the checklist that the world told me I needed. As a breastfeeding mum, I was very careful not to offer Lara a dummy during the first 4 weeks to make sure that she was well-established at the breast. As it was, we didn't need to use one during that time. Lara took to breastfeeding easily and so, when the moment came, I didn't feel worried about introducing a dummy. I can clearly remember the first time I gave Lara a dummy. She was about 6 weeks old. It was abou...
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Posted 3 week(s) ago by Emma Sheppard
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I read a article in the Guardian yesterday which was about a survey claims over home birth being more of a risk then a hospital birth. Apparently a home birth carries three times the risk that the baby will die then if you were to have the baby in hospital. I do not believe this to be true , I believe that both have just the same risks. Which the Royal College of Midwives has confirmed. It got me thinking about my own thoughts on home birth. I never really knew my options when I was pregnant with Oli , I think even with the choice of a home birth I would of still gone to hospital through those first labour fears and because I just didn't know what to expect , I always assumed something like giving birth to a ch...
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Posted 3 week(s) ago by Emma Button
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Today I am hosting a guest post is by Janette Wright from Devon and it really highlights the importance of raising awareness of the symptoms of Meningitis. At Christmas 1989 I was I was a single mum with 5 year old twins and a younger boy of 3. I clearly remember hearing my local radio station run a story about a little girl who died from meningitis. They said that she had been turned away from casualty and died shortly afterwards. She had a rash and had been misdiagnosed. I was aware of the symptoms of meningitis being aversion to light, stiff neck and raised temperature but the rash aspect was new to me. The news report was logged away in my mind like so many things in life for no apparent reason. That piece of in...
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Posted 4 week(s) ago by Emma Button
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Most people know that as an adult, our recommended salt intake is no more than 6g per day. Most people also know that a baby on their first solid food should only eat food with no added salt. However, I have found that there is little guidance available for those stages in between. I have a healthy happy toddler who, other than her lunchbox meals at the childminder, eats the same meals as me. When I cook, I am always conscious of ensuring that our family meals have a low salt content but it is hard to know where the limits are. How much salt should my toddler eat? The Food Standards Agency state that under 12 months, babies should have less than 1g of salt per day which they will get from their breast or formula milk. Fro...
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Posted 4 week(s) ago by Vic Pires
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Little Mister's eczema seemed to be getting worse. It was probably down to the heat but was much drier than usual and some of the creases in his skin were starting to weep just like when, before diagnosis, it went untreated. He's much more aware of it now; we're forever batting his hands away as he tries to scratch. It seemed that no sooner had we put the emollient on him that it'd disappeared into the dryness. Read on at Glowstars.net
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Posted 1 month(s) ago by Emma Sheppard
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Before I turned off the TV this morning , I caught a question from a breakfast show that really did get me thinking. I turned the TV off and didn't continue to listen to what was said. But I sat down to think about the question Are parents that smoke child abusers? I have both the answer of yes and no to that question. I would or course say yes if a parent was to smoke within distance of a child which allows the child to breathe in the smoke or even get a whiff of it. Breathing in other people's secondhand smoke can damage almost every organ in the human body. Breathing secondhand smoke increases a non-smoker's risk of lung cancer by 24% and heart disease by 25%. Breathing in secondhand smoke makes the ...
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