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Here’s the situation. Your little one has just begun to crawl; a happy, exciting and historical event for you and your family. You’ve been spurring him on for weeks to get up on those chubby little hands and knees and put one in front of the other. When he finally does it you are elated, your little bundle of joy has reached a milestone and has found some independence. For a day or two you happily watch him practising his new skill, calling round friends and relatives to inform them of what talented offspring you have. Everything’s great! He’s happy,...

Low Birth weight babies are hopefully overall health but they do require special attention in certain areas.Of course the primary source of advice and guidance should be your doctor and midwife, but here are some points you will need to bare in mind with regards car seats as they can effect a low birth weight baby differently. The biggest concern is that the seating position of a standard rear facing car seat can lower the oxygen levels of the baby.Ask for advice from your doctor or midwife (never be afraid to ask)So for the first few months try and avoid long journeysIt...

I will tell anyone who will listen that if I knew exactly how my body would change after the birth of my first child, I would have worn a bikini even in the midst of winter. It’s the old saying of, “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” and I regret not giving my flat stomach airings while it still existed.Even on its flattest days it still resembles my grandmother’s jowls when she’s forgotten to put her teeth in and I can’t help but envy the celebrities that are spotted sporting tankinis just weeks after their babies were...

I have a few friends that are new parents and each one shares the same trait, the cleaning trait, which means there’s never a thing out of place, surfaces are always spick and span, windows are always gleaming and the house always looks like it’s a show home.While the baby is small this may be easy to maintain, yet it does make me wonder how much fun baby will have when he or she starts walking and playing.The few clean freaks I’ve seen that insist on 100% cleanliness despite their child being 2 or 3 are constantly stressed out. They...

Since birth my little girl has suffered from Asthma, as her lungs are still quite immature. She should grow out of it by the age of five, however every time she teethes or gets a cold we have endless nights of coughing that keeps us all awake.It’s frustrating seeing her so exhausted only to wake seconds later as her cough disrupts her sleep, but it’s not only asthmatics that suffer from this, any baby can.Teething causes an excess of saliva to be produced which can then irritate the throat leading to a cough, it also inflames the throat at times...