Benefits of Nature for Children

Many of us may remember spending a huge amount of time outdoors as children. The freedom to play and explore nature in all of it’s glory. Most of my childhood memories revolve around my garden or the surrounding countryside.  Children thrive outdoors....

The mental load

The mental load is a term many use to describe the project management of household and childcare tasks. Emma, a French comic artist, describes the mental load in some detail here. It is often the unseen tasks that women tend to do that others may not notice. The...

Babies born in lockdown

For the parents of babies born in lockdown 2020 it has been such a hard year. In my role as a breastfeeding counsellor for both Early Nourishment and the NCT I have listened to hundreds of parents in the last 6 months. I am hearing just how hard this year has been and...

How bed sharing saved my sanity…

Go back 4 years and we were first time parents to our daughter Phoebe. She was a dream, such a chilled out baby, breastfed perfectly from birth and generally never had any problems with her. Well, that was until the sun went down, and suddenly I would think someone...