Baby

Of course, all babies are unique little individuals and you may have hit the sleeping baby jackpot. If your baby is sleeping a longer stretch over night and is gaining weight and contented, that’s perfectly fine. However, very few babies can sleep longer than 2 or 3 hours in the early weeks – day or night - so if you are feeling pressure around…

This powerful hormonal hangover has such universally intense effects on mothers’ inner lives that it is documented by researchers under a variety of labels including ‘maternal pre-occupation’ and ‘motherhood mindset’. This more intuitive mindset can be quite at odds with our modern lifestyles and often comes as a shock to women who have previously…

Welcome to the wonderful world of babies, toddlers and exercise! What a joy and pleasure these tiny human beings can be. Have you ever considered how you can incorporate fitness WITH your children? That’s right, you can multitask your way to a stronger body with a Happy Baby by your side. Babies are temperamental little creatures and their…

Crying can be exhausting for both the parents and their baby.  If you halved the amount of time your baby was crying, how would that impact your life? How would it impact the experience of your baby?

Given that newborn babies can typically sleep around 16-17 hours a day, it’s worth putting some thought into creating a natural baby nursery to ensure your baby’s sleep environment is as safe and toxin-free as possible. If creating a natural nursery is high on your nesting agenda, the following five steps will have you well on your way to a…

Congratulations on becoming a dad. It’s exciting and exhilarating but it’s also exhausting and it can be damn confusing too, as you not only get to know your new little baby but you find yourself trying to figure out how to support your partner who seems to have turned into a completely different woman. She is exhausted from giving birth, flooded…

Dear New Mother, It takes your breath away, doesn’t it? You knew it would. You knew it would change, well, everything, but you didn’t know it would rock you to your very core quite as shockingly as it has, did you? I didn’t either. None of us did. We read every baby book we could lay our hands on and listened to all the advice being thrown at…

We go to such great lengths to get our homes ready for baby, completing tasks like washing and folding baby clothes and cloth nappies, decorating the nursery, stocking the freezer with meals, installing safety latches on cupboards and safety gates on doors, that we tend to overlook one of the greatest hazards in the home, chemicals.

This surrender is not weak or submissive. It is not ‘giving in’. Surrender, in this context, is really about acceptance of where our child is at right now, as well as where we are as parents, and about ‘letting go’. Surrender means living in the present, not missing precious moments through resentment or blame – especially blaming ourselves – for…