Pregnancy can be a beautiful thing to experience for a couple, but it can also cause some depression afterward, and this needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. Most women slowly slip into postnatal depression after their firstborns or when they start noticing how...
Entertaining your baby is an essential part of being a parent, but you also need to improve the sensory skills and help your child develop. With smaller and cheaper toys, this can still be achieved, but it will take you longer as boredom might set in quickly with...
Being the mother of a recently born baby can already be a tough and commanding job, and ensuring that your little one can always be nursed is another difficult challenge. Untimely leakages of milk could also cause embarrassment, and it might take some time for your...
Play kitchen is one of the newest and most innovative toys for children, which will remarkably help them to develop their cooking skills much faster. These kitchens look really authentic, and many of the items incorporated are almost exactly as the items you would...
Many new parents believe that diapers are the only essential item needed to change a baby’s diaper, but that is not the case. If you have some experience in changing diapers, you will know that the platform and location you choose to do this, will make life either...
You may think that it is easy to choose the best baby jumper for your little one, but it does require quite some thought, and the cheapest jumper will not necessarily be the most efficient. Baby jumpers vary in quality, and this could have an impact on the price and...
Pregnancy, especially during the third trimester, can be incredibly tired all the time! What with all the changes taking place inside your body and all the strangers offering well-meaning, sometimes overwhelming advice. The problem with this is no two pregnancies are...
Things can get kind of weird when you’re pregnant. You do weird things, want weird things, weird things go into you, and maybe, weird things come out of you. Sometimes, things happen that you don’t want to talk about, one of them being that strange green poop. So why...
For such a joyful event, pregnancy has one heck of a way to introduce itself. The absolute elation of finding out you’re going to be a mom goes down the toilet quicker than your first bout of morning sickness. Even though it is one of the most unpleasant symptoms,...
When you’re in the latter stages of pregnancy, your baby kicks all sorts of parts of your body, and many of them can be painful. I remember distinctly a fondness one of my children had for sticking his foot in between my ribs. But what if you feel like they are...
A lot of people will ask you in the last month of your pregnancy (when you’re massive and waddling and obviously very close to the end) if you’ve "dropped" yet. And if it’s your first pregnancy, you might look at them strangely and wonder if it is a new type of drug...
Being pregnant is an awesome and wonderful experience that is one of the most incredible things you will ever do. It is also at times very very hard. And one of these hard times will be when you are struck down by a seemingly normal illness like cold and flu, and you...
How many mothers have bought rice or another baby cereal for their precious little one, only to find that he or she hates it? It’s actually not that surprising if you taste it yourself – it’s pretty bland stuff. Well, I have found this great little recipe which is a...
Remember the movie Sixth Sense where the main character, Haley Joel Osment, saw dead people? Well, as far-fetched as it may seem, there is a high chance that most children and babies can see ghosts. However, an encounter with a spirit is usually no big deal for them;...
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a first-time parent and you’re looking for a definitive answer or the closest thing to "when to stop swaddling baby?" The rule of thumb is babies should stop being swaddled between three and four months old. However, the...
For many dog owners, their dog is their first precious little one. And for a long time, he may have been an only child. Hence, there is a lot of planning and preparing that you need to do when you are pregnant with your first child before your little one comes. With...
Almond milk is a very healthy and common milk alternative for adults these days. People switch to almond milk for many reasons, for example for dietary requirements such as lactose intolerance or dietary choices such as vegan or paleo diets. Some people have concerns...
If you’ve ever asked this question, you’re not alone! There are lots of people struggling with the exact same thing as you do, and probably the reason a book simply titled Go the F**k to Sleep became an Amazon bestseller (It's adult humor and you'll be pleased to know...
If you think back to your own childhood, there are a few moments that stand out in your memories. Certain golden days where life was magical and perfect. A holiday where everything sparkled with light. A birthday party that was so much fun, your friends didn’t stop...
Sometimes when talking about Intentional Parenting, there are misconceptions that because intentional parenting means to plan, that children will have their hand held, and everything planned and organised for them in a strict, structured regime. That couldn’t be...