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Buyer's Guide to Pregnancy Footwear
By Laura Lee Davies on 31/10/2007 01:43:58
Though a great pair of red high heels might be your treasured possession, pregnancy is probably the time to give them a rest!
or overly constricting. At the end of the day, your feet (even if you do not suffer badly with oedema) will feel pressured, rather like when you step off a plane after a long flight.Choose styles where fastenings are easy to handle. Other problems like pins
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Trilogy Skin Care
By Laura Lee Davies on 09/01/2009 09:39:56
Enjoy the natural goodness of organic plant oils and keep yourself feeling pampered in pregnancy!
.Trilogy's skin-kind simplicityThe pure extract of rosehip seed oil means that the end product you rub into your skin is solvent free and without the mineral oils, petrochemicals, parabens and artificial colours and fragrances you often find in regular beauty
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Review: Ju-Ju-Be Changing Bags
By Laura Lee Davies on 09/02/2009 01:14:54
Colourful, functional and with a long life as a handbag after your baby's out of nappies, the Ju-Ju-Be bags are wonderful value
, is the Ju-Ju-Be BeTween, priced from £45. With a main bag, smaller front section that zips up to keep your essentials safe, and little open pockets at each end, it's compact but big enough to carry everything you need for a day on the go with your baby
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New Cot Death Awareness Campaign Hits Hard
By Laura Lee Davies on 22/12/2008 10:42:17
The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths has launched a powerful short film to get the important message of safe sleeping to new parents
of being safe sleep aware out to as many people as possible.Having teamed up with advertising agency JWT, the FSID have put together a very simple, short film of women in labour, in pain. However, the end message is very clear: nothing is as painful
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Making the Most of Pregnancy Bath Time
By Laura Lee Davies on 03/11/2009 02:27:11
An achy back, swollen legs, itchy tummy and feeling hot and bothered? Here's five tips to make bath time your daily spa treat
'll be a no-go for a few years!If you choose a scented candle, try not to go for anything too rich or sickly sweet as you'll find your nose is more sensitive to strong scents when you're pregnant and it could end up making you feel more uncomfortable rather
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Breastfeeding When You are Ill
By Laura Lee Davies on 28/07/2008 01:40:49
How do illnesses and the medicines you take affect your baby while you are breastfeeding?
when my first child was four weeks old. I ended up having to have an operation under general anaesthetic. The treatment also required some medication and attention for the following few weeks. Plus when we came out of hospital (from our 24-hour stay
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New Parents Need Sleep Too!
By Laura Lee Davies on 14/04/2009 01:28:42
New babies need to sleep a lot – but sleep is important for new mums and dads, too!
? - Depending on whether or not your partner has been able to take any paternity leave, has a very stressful job, or finds life without sleep particularly hard, you might end up sleeping in different rooms until your baby's sleep patterns settle down. Some
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New Mum: Getting into a Routine
By Laura Lee Davies on 10/08/2009 02:26:56
Small new habits within your daily life with your new baby can help you both cope in the early weeks after birth
'clock slump can really bring you and your child down. It might start at 4.30pm in your home, or at 6pm, but basically, it's that end of the day when you're tired, he's getting more tired and probably hungry again, you're beginning to think about other things
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Why wait until six months to wean?
By Laura Lee Davies on 08/05/2006 15:51:20
Thinking used to be four months but now parents are advised to waint until their baby is six months old to start solids. Why?
-through routine; showing an interest in your food at mealtimes (even though this doesn't mean you should give him any of it!); he wants more milk feeds or is still hungry at the end of a feed.Secondly, you might be returning to work or your child is starting
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ThinkBaby vote: what you want from a buggy
By Laura Lee Davies on 21/06/2006 01:50:39
What do you want from your baby's buggy? Style, value for money, all-terrain fittings or simply something that's light to use and easy to fold?
more like off-road vehicles, 'Stylish' was the second lowest scorer (11 per cent) on the list of important features, and 'All terrain' wasn't much more, on 13 per cent.Admittedly, for parents who can afford or end up needing a few different buggies
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