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While you may feel out of your depth and you can't do anything to help when a new baby arrives, these are things you can do to help the mother of a newborn. Not only that, but they are things you should be doing. It takes a village and it's so important to rally around the mother of a newborn.
Motherhood

14 Things You Can Do To Help The Mother Of A Newborn

As a mother of a newborn, not only have you just spent the last 9 months growing a small human (which is a mammoth task by the way), but you’ve also just been through one of the most grueling things a body can do – give birth. Now you have a tiny human who relies…

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Do you feel guilty for not having family dinner every night? Stop! There are great reasons why you should give yourself a break and not do this every night.
Motherhood | Marriage

5 Great Reasons Not to Have Family Dinner Every Night

I know, just the title alone is probably going to send Family Dinner Advocates racing to my house to inform me my kids will end up in prison if we don’t have family dinner every night. But I have lots of practice deflecting all the parenting advice out there, because truly, what I’ve learned, is…

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While you might be counting down the days until you meet your new family addition, there are some things you really need to do before baby #2 arrives. You never know when you're going to have this opportunity again.
Motherhood | Pregnancy

7 Things You Need To Do Before Baby #2 Arrives

There are so many articles and well meaning advice about what to do before your first baby arrives. After all, you’re saying goodbye to that time when it’s just your partner and yourself and saying hello to a time when you have a small human totally depending on you for everything. I get it. It’s…

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There's one word that really gets under my skin, 'Mumpreneur'. I offer so much more to business and society than simply being defined by being 'just a Mum'.
Career | Confidence | Motherhood

Please Stop Calling Me a ‘Mumpreneur’

I’m called a lot of things. A mum, a wife, a woman, a business owner, a Paramedic, a sister, a daughter, a friend, and a whole heap more (some not so nice…), but there is one thing I loathe being called… a Mumpreneur. Over the last decade or so we have seen this massive shift…

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As parts of our life change, so do our groups of friends. I won't be feeling guilty about my new friends, and I won't be ditching my old friends either.
Confidence | Motherhood

Why I Won’t Feel Guilty About My New Friends

Recently, we’ve been hanging out with some couples from our neighborhood and I LOVE IT!  A couple of weeks ago, after a particularly fun evening, my hubby turned to me and asked me if I felt guilty about my new friends. Funny how he nailed it. For whatever reason, the day after that particularly fun…

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Pregnancy is hard to explain. It's difficult and exciting, exhausting and full on, and there are some things I want my husband to know about being pregnant.
Pregnancy | Motherhood

7 Things I Want My Husband To Know About Being Pregnant

Pregnancy, when you’re growing life inside of you and it’s this beautiful, magic time of your life. Or it’s not, and the ‘pregnancy glow’ you have is actually just sweat and you now come with your own sound effects when you move (grunt, grunt, moan). Sometimes it’s both of these things, sometimes it’s both within…

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Buying for your second baby is a balance between what you want, what you'll need and what you'll use. But there are some items you need for your second baby, the essentials (plus a few luxuries)
Pregnancy | Motherhood

10 Items You Need For Your Second Baby

Like most mums, I went a little crazy when I had my first baby. I bought just about everything anyone proclaimed I ‘needed’ or that promised to make life easier. For the record, that was a lot of ‘things’. Turns out, I barely used any of them (partially due to my son being in NICU…

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There's a whole big list of foods you can't eat, but have you considered the foods you should be eating during pregnancy? They're super tasty and nutritious too.
Health | Motherhood | Pregnancy

10 Foods You Should Be Eating During Pregnancy

If there is one thing we are told time and time again during our pregnancies it is all the foods and drinks we should be avoiding. How many times do we hear ‘oh you’re not allowed to eat that now’… it becomes draining and such a negative experience. So we are going to focus on…

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When you're a NICU Mum, and your baby is so incredibly unwell, there are so many thoughts that run through your mind and you don't know what's normal.
Motherhood

Confessions of a NICU Mum

Dear NICU Mum, I see you sitting there in the hospital café, clinging to your cup of decaf wishing it was caffeinated and with that thousand yard stare. I can see that guilty feeling you have right now, guilty that you left the side of your baby for just a few minutes so you could…

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While there are some women who don't like being pregnant (myself included) there are definitely some awesome perks of being pregnant that even I can love. These are some of the best (everyone will love #6).
Motherhood | Pregnancy

10 Of The Best Perks Of Being Pregnant

It’s no secret… I really don’t like being pregnant. Aside from the whole ‘pregnancy pretty much tries to kill me and completely debilitate me’ side of things, I honestly struggle with how my body changes and reacts during pregnancy. That’s not to say I’m not grateful for the ability to be pregnant, I very much…

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