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  Routines
are Best
Being a mother is not an easy job but being a mother of
a baby or toddler who won't go to sleep is even more difficult.
Sleep deprivation is not healthy for anyone and it stops
you from being able to function to the best of your ability
or even to make accurate decisions... read
more
 Breastfeeding
and Mastitis
Mastitis is perhaps the most distressing problem you may
encounter when attempting to breastfeed. You have been making
it through the sleepless nights, the relentless feeding
schedule, the diapers, the leaking... when all of a sudden
you want to stop breastfeeding. Why?... read
more
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Take Time to express 'MUM = MUM 2'
An Art & Writing competition for daughters around Australia
The Mum = Mum 2 competition by Creative Mums www.creativemums.com.au is looking for submissions in Art & Writings from around Australia about the special bound between daughter and mother 'Mum = Mum 2'... read
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Adult
siblings receive the most expensive baby gifts
People spend more per person on group baby gifts for friends,
relatives and siblings than if they bought them on their
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found that people tend to spend far more on baby gifts for
people close to them... read
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One Mum's Story
 Elizabeth & Tiana's
Story
After eight IVF attempts Elizabeth had mixed feelings when her pregnancy test came up positive. Only seven months before she had given birth to twins prematurely and tragically lost them. She was glad to be pregnant but knew it would be a very long road to meeting her baby - and would there be a healthy and happy ending?... read
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New Parenting Tips
A
box for every room
Keep your sanity and your house looking clean! Go to Ikea
or anywhere that sells coloured plastic crates. Buy one
in each colour and place one in each room so that you
have, for example, a red crate in the kitchen, pink in the
living room, green in your child's bedroom, yellow in the
kitchen, blue in the bathroom etc. At the end of the day,
your child places whatever toy is in that room in its own
box. This stops you (or him or her) having to schlep it
back to the playroom etc and cleans up each room a lot faster!
* Contributed by Elizabeth, NSW
Organise your first baby's things so it's easier with your next baby
As your baby grows place the clothes they grow out of in empty nappy boxes and write the size and season on them, so when you have baby number two you can clearly work out which clothes you can use again.
* Contributed by a Angela, Queensland
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 Exercise
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I don't know what is scarier; finding out you are pregnant
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