There are a few parenting ideas, mantras, and philosophies that I follow and one of them is a concept called open ended play. Open ended play encourages and supports children to be able to properly engage with their toys in a meaningful and long term way, it’s something that I love to see Peggy experiencing.
Read MoreSimon and I have been eating quite a bit of meat recently, it’s left me with a bit of a heavy feeling so I’m looking forward to lightening things up for a little while. Sometimes I really crave healthy, veggie food and my fridge is currently full of lots of lovely fresh ingredients right now, which isn’t always the case!
Read MoreThis post features the short speech I gave during my online meet up event last Friday. It was the first time I had hosted an online event and I felt so nervous. I’m used to my in person meet ups, I’m much better when I’m around people as digital chats scare me quite a bit.
Read MoreI wanted to put together this little post just for me really, as a way to look back on our beautiful daughters first Christmas. I made sure not to put too much pressure on things. There’s so much “baby’s first Christmas” talk out there that it’s easy to get swept up in making it absolutely perfect - I’m sure we all know that pilling on the pressure to have the most fun at Christmas rarely makes things better!
Read MoreToday I wanted to share my absolutely incredible birth story, I would do it all over again if I could. Let me start this post with a bit of an introduction to how I felt about the prospect of birth before I discovered the amazing power of hypnobirthing.
Read MoreWell our daughter is here! Our little Peggy joined us on the 17th of June at 3:40 am, my labour actually started on my due date! I’ll be sharing my amazing birth story in a few weeks but for now it’s time for the final instalment of my pregnancy journey.
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