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Blogger Jen is a mum-of-seven and shares her hectic, crazy and certainly never dull life on her blog Mama-tude. Well experienced on Back-to-School time, the mum has written a very apt poem about the struggles us parents have to deal with in the run up to September! The new school year is drawing near, The teachers start to cry, While parents empty bank accounts, For school books they must buy. And...

Like so many other women that I know, I had a career before I was a mum. A career that I was thriving in. I had the five-year plan: where I wanted to go, what I wanted to achieve, and what I expected to be earning. Yes, kids were always part of this plan, but I thought they would fit in nicely with my career plans. But then I had my first child. I thoroughly enjoyed maternity leave with my first...

Former model Heather Ness is a blogger at Mum and Moo and a fulltime mum-of-two little girls - Molly and Emily - who moves around regularly due to her husband’s career as a footballer. In her fifth home, here Heather, whose youngest child is just four-months-old, explains how she has reached the f*** it stage of motherhood. I'm at what I'd like to call the 'f*** it' stage of my...

Walking is an ideal exercise for new mums, but it's tough to carve out a 30-minute block of time to work up a sweat when you're dealing with nursing sessions and nappy changes. If you want to lose weight or get fit, squeezing in three ten-minute walks is just as effective as heading out for a half hour; we suggests aiming for 200 minutes of exercise each week. Stick to it, and you could...

So it’s about to begin. Again. Not sure how I feel about it this time around. It’s that time that most parents simultaneously dread and anticipate with a little excitement. Is it that first night away as a couple? No. Is it the toddler sleeping all night? Nope (although that would be extremely welcome!) It’s actually those two little words: potty training. But of course there’s a twist...

On one of the many beautiful blue sky days recently, I stood on our local beach with the four-year-old, surrounded by tourists and locals picnicking, swimming, sunbathing, paddling. It was an idyllic scene; beach umbrellas, toddlers coated in sun lotion and sand, skinny-legged kids jumping over the waves, the knowledge that lifeguards were watching over everyone and that, just beyond the sand...

Being a mother has never been easy; parents have always had to worry about things like keeping their children fed, healthy, and educated. What I didn’t think they had to concern themselves with (until now) were the implications of showing affection to their sons and daughters. In fact, thinking back on my own childhood, showing affection was not something parents gave much attention to at all...

As many experienced mums will agree, the term "baby weight" can be as misleading as the term morning sickness. Just as morning sickness can plague a pregnant woman at all hours of the day, baby weight tends to hang on to Mum long after the baby's evolved to a toddler, preschooler, and beyond. And there's a reason for that: 1. You’re doing the wrong workout Any tired, new mum is lucky...

Parenthood teaches us to experience multiple opposing emotions on a daily basis at dangerously high levels. Take fear; f ear comes into its own once you become a parent. Who else wakes up seven times an hour to check on the breathing of a perfectly healthy human other than a new parent? Who else can spend an hour in intense conversation on the terror of choking hazards, on the danger of the...

You've just brought your newborn home from the hospital. Swaddled and wrapped in blankets; having a good old sniff of their head - bliss. Congratulations, you are now the proud owner of a beautiful, wrinkly little cherub. You put her down and she's there in her moses basket, car seat or bouncer, exactly in eye shot. Life couldn't get any better. The first birthday is celebrated, and...