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‘Jacob will need heart surgery every 10 years’

May 4, 2012 by Danielle Leave a Comment
'Jacob will need heart surgery every 10 years'

Jennifer Gelven, 39, is a work-from-home mother from Meadow Springs, WA, whose four-year-old son, Jacob, has struggled with heart disease from a very early age. After a relatively good pregnancy, apart from a little high blood pressure, Jacob was born on Valentine’s Day 2008 by Caesarean. He was a healthy baby boy until day three [...]

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Hot maternity range with a plus

May 4, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
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Finding great maternity clothes can be a real chore, but for plus sized Mums it’s a nightmare. Well, it was until Sydney mum Nadine Newell got pregnant. “I was the plus size mum that wasn’t able to find maternity wear while I was pregnant with my daughter so thought I would try and change things [...]

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Filed Under: fashion, featured, pregnancy Tagged With: maternity clothing, More than a handful, Plus Maternity, plus sized maternity clothing, try and buy

REVIEW – Helena Storksak, a place for everything

May 4, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
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PRODUCT: Helena Storksak PRICE: $549.00 STOCKISTS:  www.storksak.com.au REVIEWER: Louise Johnson   When you send a nappy bag to a mother of three to review it’s going to get a workout. The Helena from Storksak had a big job to do carrying all the paraphernalia that’s required for any kind of outing with my three kids, all four [...]

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Filed Under: baby, fashion Tagged With: nappy bag, parent bag, product reviews, Storksak

50 ways to nurture yourself this Mother’s Day

May 4, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
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By Christie Nicholas Since becoming a mum, have you ever woken up and not recognised who you are anymore? Are you unclear of what you want from your life or have you lost sight of your goals? Have you neglected yourself and everything that once made you you? Or maybe you are just overwhelmed by [...]

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Mother’s Day Gift Guide

May 4, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
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Mother’s Day is almost upon us, so brace yourself for a dodgy breakfast in bed and an “almost” day off your usual mummy chores. To ensure there’s more than the magic of kinder crafts this Mother’s Day we’ve put together a list of perfect gifts for the five styles of mothering. We’ve used clinical psychologist [...]

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My Child Meets – Lindy Klim from Milk Baby

May 4, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
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Lindy Klim (originally Anak Agung Rama meaning children of the King) is an Australian born Balinese princess  – her late father, Oka Rama, married her Australian mother in the early 70s. She started her modelling career at the age of 20 and was a regular on the runway during both Sydney and Melbourne fashion weeks. She met [...]

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The perfect kids holiday

May 4, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
Paradise Resort

Somehow holidaying with kids often doesn’t feel much like a holiday. Our family holidays are non-stop action packed activity after activity, until the kids crash into bed and we are left feeling too exhausted to do much more than hit the hay ourselves. The Paradise Resort on the Gold Coast offers the best of kids [...]

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Sustainable living for your dolls

May 3, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
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We try to set the best example possible for our children when it comes to protecting our environment, but now your kids will trump all your sustainability efforts with this eco friendly, sustainable doll house. The doll house promotes sustainable living with an energy efficient design that includes a wind turbine, a solar cell panel [...]

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Going for a stroller?

May 3, 2012 by Danielle Leave a Comment
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From Friday May 18 to Sunday May 20, the Babies And Children’s Expo will be held at the Sydney Showground Exhibition Centre at Sydney Olympic Park. The expo is a great way to shortlist your baby shopping list – you get to see and touch many fantastic products that are up-and-comers in the industry. One [...]

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A playground of colour

May 1, 2012 by Danielle Leave a Comment
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EVENT: Vivid Light Festival, Sydney, Friday May 25 Vivid Light will transform Sydney into a playground of free light artworks the whole family can enjoy. From a giant interactive game of TicTacToe to animatronic dancing lamps, fibre optic sea grass and a luminescent game of hopscotch, this is something for every member of the family. [...]

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Play the game of learning

May 1, 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment
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Parents and educators are embracing video games as tools to teach their kids about technology, maths, science, planning, language, work, life and society according to research from Bond University. The research, commissioned by the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA), found four in five parents with children under 18 years old play games and of [...]

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Funky baby bottoms

April 30, 2012 by Danielle Leave a Comment
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The ultimate softness for your baby’s delicate skin – Bubblebubs has combined urban style with easy convenience in their range of modern cloth nappies. Created in Brisbane by a team of work-at-home mums, these nappies are made with beautiful organic fabrics, including hemp, bamboo and soy, and are all designed with Velcro tabs or snap-buckles, [...]

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She Runs The Night

April 30, 2012 by Danielle Leave a Comment
She Runs The Night

EVENT: Nike She Runs, Sydney, May 3 2012 Are you a woman, a Sydney-sider and a runner? Then leave the bubby with the hubby and have a night that’s all about you. Nike has its heart set on creating a running society by women, for women, to challenge you and promote women’s physical fitness. On [...]

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WIN – My Child Mother’s Day giveaway worth over $2,400

April 27, 2012 by Louise
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  What would make your Mother’s Day perfect this year? Would it start with the whole family piled in bed for a yummy breakfast? Or do you yearn to escape for a day? Whatever your perfect day looks like, this year Mother’s Day will be especially happy for a very lucky My Child mother when [...]

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Breastfeeding in public is now a civil right in Seattle, US

April 27, 2012 by Danielle Leave a Comment
Breastfeeding in public is now a protected civil right in Seattle, Washington, US

On April 9 2012, the Seattle City Council in Washington, US, unanimously passed a bill that protects a woman’s right to breastfeed as a civil right. Many have viewed this as an important victory in light of the recent “war on women” that has been raging across the United States. It will now be illegal [...]

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