Healthy lifestyle tips & advice for kids, babies & moms

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5 reasons to do your kegel exercises today!

A strong pelvic floor helps prepare your body for the strains of pregnancy, childbirth, ageing and impact sports. Kegel exercises are a great way to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. …

Do you battle trying to get kids to brush their teeth? Have you tried everything to get it to work? Playbrush could be the answer for you, a modern way to solve an age old problem. Find out what its all about by visiting the KiddyCharts site.

How to make kids WANT to brush their teeth

Its 8am and I am listening to the sounds of gaming coming from the bathroom. Usually this would be a cause for much concern, argument, and tantrums at this time …

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The secret to losing weight without dieting

Losing weight is an important goal for me; I just wanted to be able to fit comfortably into size 14 dresses again, and not have to squeeze. As a mum that works …

Stress incontinence in pregnancy is more common than you think; it is also something that occurs after pregnancy too. Hartmann Direct have a great tool to help choose the stress incontinence product that is right for you...

Cough with confidence: Let’s talk about stress incontinence

I know that is a bit of a straight to the point title for a blog post; and perhaps you don’t really want to talk about stress incontinence because it …

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Easy steps for treating burns or scalds on your kids

There is always an increased risk of children getting burnt on Bonfire Night – kids can easily get over excited and run around, getting too close to the fire which is …

Did you take Vitamin D supplements in pregnancy?

We all try to eat healthy balanced diets when we are pregnant. We like to do it, we want to help that little one growing inside us to have the …

We are test driving Nature's Best Omega 3 supplements for both kids and adults. See what we thought of them,.

Introducing Nature’s Best Omega 3 supplements

There has been a lot of discussion over the last year around Omega-3 supplements and there ability to assist concentration and improve behaviour in children, largely steming from an article …

Breastfeeding is tough. That was how I felt throughout my feeding time with both my kids. Sometimes we aren't told just how different it can be for each mum, and we feel we HAVE to keep feeding through the tears. Realism is important for breastfeeding mums. This is my story of breast thrush, mastitis and mummy guilt.

Breast thrush: My breastfeeding nightmare #bressure

I haven’t been brave enough to talk about my breast-feeding journey yet. Breast thrush – who knew you could get that, right? My daughter and I had our early weeks …

I KNOW this is a tough subject, and you might wonder why I am writing about it...but my personal experiences tell me how hard it is for women to choose hysterectomies, so they can have no more children. In the case of a prolapsed uterus, this may not be needed, so we need to educate women on Sacrohysteropexy so they can make a more informed choice.

The pelvic clinic: Does a prolapsed uterus = no more kids?

Forgive me for the graphic nature of this post, but it IS important to discuss these things. Prolasped uterus aren’t as un-usual as you might think, and its critical that women …

We know brushing your kids teeth can be a real chore - well in this technological age, there is a solution! Here are 8 apps that make brushing your kids teeth fun!

8 apps to make tooth brushing a treat in your house

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias. “Come on – we’ll be late for school it you don’t do …