A gift from their granddad.

8 years ago

‘Parenthood is nothing like it is on Instagram.’

8 years ago

Ever consider using cloth nappies for your little ones? Apart from the money saving and waste saving, they look freakin’ adorable. For first-timers it can be hard to know where to begin so we asked five mums to tell us all about their adventures in fluff. What was your biggest motivation for using cloth nappies? “I won […]

8 years ago

Duct tape for everything…

8 years ago

Pregnancy insomnia proves that Mother Nature is a b*tch with a cruel, cruel sense of humour. I enjoy irony as much as the next person but surely insomnia setting in just weeks before the arrival of a newborn into your life is just too, too much. Everyone’s telling you to rest up, while all night […]

8 years ago

Get ready…

8 years ago

Pre-parenthood, my bar for unwinding was set way WAY higher. Back then I might have had a bath or gone for a massage or taken a nap or enjoyed six hours of uninterrupted me-time and still I could probably be found complaining to someone about how “stressed” I was. Now, post-toddler, I find myself looking […]

8 years ago

What, only ten reasons!?

8 years ago

Milk drunkenness is a thing.

8 years ago

‘It goes without saying that the mum pouch is totally worth it.’

8 years ago

It’s not like the movies…

8 years ago

Look, we’re all tired, I get it, but those of us with young kids are EXCEPTIONALLY tired. I reckon that society as a whole should be giving us special dispensations, cutting us a bit of slack, as a kind of reward for resisting the urge to scream at people out of sheer exhaustion or refraining […]

8 years ago

WARNING: This image may be upsetting to readers. It’s been three years since American mother-of-two, Eva Holland, made the decision to post a family picture that generated a huge reaction online. The Ohio mum lost her partner, Mike, to addiction three years ago, and the image she shared shows Eve and her two children, Lucas […]

8 years ago

She even dropped by over Christmas – twice.

8 years ago

When you have kids, weird issues arise on virtually an hourly basis. I’m talking about the kinds of difficulties we parents are liable to encounter that are quite possibly not covered in the BabyCentre email. You know, those weird scenarios that usually arise when you are alone and are so bizarre that whenever they crop […]

8 years ago

‘We do have to introduce what we call a “planned ignoring”.’

8 years ago

Some of this might sound familiar… There was a point, not so long ago, that I was so over being pregnant that I seriously considered getting the car jack out, cranking my cervix open and welcoming the baby into the world myself. Too graphic? Sorry, that was pretty graphic but that, my friends, is what the […]

8 years ago

Feeling the heat?

8 years ago

Am I the only parent who feels a sense of achievement anytime I ever manage to get The Child to nap?  I have long since made peace with my so-called “bad” sleeper; I no longer get an angry eye twitch when a random stranger asks me “if he’s good?” presumably meaning “does he sleep?”; I […]

8 years ago

Feeling time-poor? Money-poor? Enthusiasm-poor? Yep, yep and yep. We know the feeling you’re juggling babies, kids, emotions, half drunk bottles of wine, the last thing you need is to be thinking about is what’s for dinner. With a well-stocked store cupboard dinner is always sorted. Here’s the 15 store cupboard essentials that mean you will […]

8 years ago

Whether you are in the extreme-nesting stage and want to put a personal stamp on the bump’s nursery or you are looking for a special gift for a new addition to the world these mobiles are totally adorable and not too taxing for amateur crafters out there. 1. Birds of a feather These cute little […]

8 years ago

Looking for a simple project for the kids, then look no further. What we love about these EGGceptionally cute ideas is that they are mostly items you would already have to hand. 1. Toadstool characters See here for full tutorial 2. Squiggly snake puppet See here for full tutorial 3. Pretty flower wreath See here […]

8 years ago

We all have high hopes for the first family holiday. Even though, on an academic level, we know that handling a sticky, sandy baby is like having an aggressive and unwanted exfoliation treatment. And sure, the heat might mess with the precious sleep routine, but still we imagine Instagram-esque family frolics in the surf and blobs of ice cream […]

8 years ago

Guilty of any of these?

8 years ago

Because sometimes you need a whinge.

8 years ago

Want something completely different?

8 years ago

How long can one actually claim rookie status? Six months, a year? The Child is nearly 2-years-old so I admit that I am not technically a rookie parent anymore and yet when observed changing a nappy I still look like a total beginner, only without the beginner’s luck. If you have yet to master the subtle […]

8 years ago

Guilt-free Nutella? Yes please!

8 years ago

Thirty thoughts I had during my first day as a mum to a newborn baby boy. I often think back to the chaotic very first twenty-fours of parenthood and all the random, disjointed shouty thoughts that plagued me all day. There is probably no other day that is so totally and utterly INSANE in any of […]

8 years ago

These cute cupcakes will be fun for the kids to decorate and fun for you to eat!

8 years ago

I will stand up and be counted here: my son has a pretty pretentious name, I feel this fact qualifies me to compile this list of pretentious names. Sidenote: These baby names are not strictly Irish but rather inspired in part by Irish culture. 10 Irish Baby Names That Scream Pretentious NOTIONS: 1. Beckett  The baby […]

8 years ago

Kids driving you bonkers yet?

8 years ago

Have you tried it?

9 years ago

Got a baby living inside you right now? I feel you. Let the moaning commence… Babies – so cute to kiss and cuddle and smell. Not so cute when they are in permanent residence jammed up inside your ribcage. Yep, I feel your pain… literally! Here are 10 simple things that are such a struggle […]

9 years ago

By psychologist David Coleman.

9 years ago

Christmas has always been my favourite time of year. I love the eating spree and the all the presents for sure, but my favourite aspect of the festive season is that giddy party mood that just seems to take over everyone for the week of Christmas. With The Child now becoming a more and more […]

9 years ago

DON’T ask if we’ve it ‘all done’ – we don’t.

9 years ago

Take a peek, come and find, something special… it’ll blow your mind!

9 years ago

8We all have big expectations when it comes to Christmas… The pressure to create impossibly perfect, magical memories for our adorable little loin fruits is pretty big, but then what happens when the little f*ckers don’t play the game? Expectation vs Reality: 5 TRUTHS about christmas morning with kids Expectation: They’re going to have us […]

9 years ago

Road rage x 1000.

9 years ago

It’s a miracle.

9 years ago

The fakeaway has become a godsend for the pre-Christmas spending cull.  We used to treat ourselves to a takeaway practically every weekend which, the way we eat, was becoming a major financial drain. With seven Saturdays to go before the big C (thank you radio presenter for lobbing that information bomb into my otherwise peaceful […]

9 years ago

When growing a person, it is natural to feel pretty damn impressed with yourself. After all, suddenly your body is doing a new activity of its own accord with minimal effort or even conscious thought required from you. With the new bodily functions (person-growing, lactating) comes a new impressive looking appendage: The bump. Pretty soon […]

9 years ago

Uncanny.

9 years ago

Ewww!

9 years ago

Okay, full disclosure: I am about to start crowning at any minute and have NO IDEA what to call this bump. I am seeking name inspo here there and everywhere, but so far nada, zip, zilch. With a bump due in Autumn I am now looking to the most gorgeous season of them all for […]

9 years ago

“An amazing thing happened.”

9 years ago

‘All I felt was desperate terror, guilt for not loving my son properly.’

9 years ago

Just to clarify, I have in no way nailed this parenting business the second time around. However, I have noticed some marked differences between the babyhood of my second child and that of my first. With my first baby, I spent the first six months waiting and waiting and waiting for things to ‘settle down’. […]

9 years ago

I am not a patient person. Add two years of interrupted sleep and I’ve become about as unreasonable and irrational as a hormonal bull shark.  The question of divorcing The Man can come up at least four times a day (or nine times during the US Masters) though I realise how lucky I am that, […]

9 years ago