Hiya folks, I’m actually looking for some advice from you guys as I’m in a bit of a dilema.. Basically, as most of you already know, I’ve suffered from both SPD and it’s big brother DSP for the past 7years now. I had a plate put accross the symphsis back in 2003 and was then [...]
I was reading a report earlier on this week and it was saying that children that have been breastfed are less likely to suffer from mental health issues such as depression. So my question is were you breastfed? If so have you suffered from depresion? Did you breastfeed your children and if so have you [...]
A friend of mine is pg and due in early December. She had her 1st DD by emergency c-section as having got to 9cms with the head showing, the baby’s head was tilted back and was stuck. Anyway, she went to the hospital this week to the VBAC clinic. The consultant told her that she [...]
Trying to conceive. Until we started to try our 1st baby, it had never occurred to me how much of a minefield trying to conceive can be. I naively assumed that you just had a lot of sex and at some point you would get pregnant. I didn’t actually know how my reproductive system worked [...]
Please could everyone add their parenting tips here. It may be to do with getting the housework done, getting a child to sleep, getting them to eat healthy foods, getting them to take medicine, settling them at nursery, preparing a child for the arrival of a sibling, preparing the house for a toddler, breastfeeding, or [...]
A big thank you to all of you who entered the Smallprint Competition. The turn out was great! I’m sorry for the delay in announcing the winners, but here they are: The question was: How much does one pendent on a chain cost? And the answer was: £40 The winners, each winning a £40 gift [...]
I have a friend who has two very different parenting styles. In private, as in front of close friends and family, she is very intolerant of her lo’s behaviour. She just shouts at them to stop doing something instead of actually getting up and removing them from whatever it is they are doing. She makes them [...]
I was talking to a friend the other day and discussing our pregnancies. She said the one thing she remembers from first finding out she was pregnant was being asked ‘Do you feel pregnant?’ from her GP. We giggled over it because, never being pregnant before it seemed like a strange thing to ask. Did [...]
Its competition time again! Set up in October 2004, Smallprint creates beautiful jewellery that captures children’s fingerprints in silver. The jewellery is made from a product called precious metalclay(PMC), which allows babies’ fingerprints to be taken on a piece ofjewellery and then fired in a kiln to form solid silver. This month 3 lucky madmums [...]