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Funky Giraffe are very pleased to inform you that we will be at the Earls Court Baby Show, London 26 – 28th of October with our fantastic range of Bandana bibs and new ranges of baby accessories. This is huge show packed with loads of bargains for expectant and new parents, parking is not so great, but there are plenty of public transport links to Earls Court. They are always fun and its always great to get out and meet our customers and huge numbers of ever so cute babies, so we do hope that we will see some of your at...

Education is a basic human right. It is a tool to empower individuals to find opportunities for development. It is vital in fighting poverty, improving child mortality, keeping population growth in check, achieving peace and equality, and maintaining sustainable development.Here in the developed countries, we take education for granted because it is easily available. However, there are still over 759 million adults all over the world who are deprived of this basic human right and two thirds of them are women.Funky Giraffe believes that we don’t need to make big sacrifices to support literacy. To join us in supporting International...

To give the best chance of delivery before Christmas we have been advised by Royal Mail, that orders of our Bandana Bibs should be placed no later than Monday the 19th of December. This is a just a guide. We have been doing really well recently and any orders for our bibs placed before 2pm is being sent same day.We wish you all a lovely festive season.

Bringing up baby? There is so much conflicting advice out there, it can be confusing and scary for new mums and dads with their brand new dribbly babies! I have recently come across a wonderful author that challenges much of our well worn ideas about parenting. Alfie Kohn, author of Unconditional Parenting confronts the familiar carrot and stick approach to discipline. After looking at hundreds of studies Kohn demonstrates that no one performs better when offered various enticements from sweets and stickers to money and cars. We all want our children to grow up happy and confident and what better...

Quinoa, is a great baby food, I found out about it when I was starting to wean my son and found these super organic baby foods from Plum. But as I really liked to cook for my son I started using Quinoa in my cooking.The reason why Quinoa is so food and such a superfood, is that it has a very high protein content, as high as 18 percent, and a balanced set of Amino Acids, which babies need to build proteins, add that to the high content of fiber, phospuorous, magnesioum and iron again all essential for growth. To...