Making Sense of the New CMA and ASA Guidelines: An instagrammers perspective.

I think I have seen comments regarding the new ASA guidelines for influencers around 3 million times in the last month. It’s created a massive fear among the Instagram community I follow, for myself included. So much so, that I even labelled a free event I went to as an “AD” for fear of being …

Things to do with Children in Gloucestershire: Christmas at Cotswold Farm Park

We were very kindly gifted this experience, however as always all thoughts are my own and are genuine 🙂 Visiting Father Christmas is one of my favourite Christmas traditions, and I couldn't wait to have a child of my own to enjoy this experience as an adult. We first took her to visit Santa when …

A clutter-free house is a clutter-free mind (or something like that!?)

2018 has brought with us many new-fads on what our resolutions should be. Alongside the age-old 'lose weight', 'exercise more', 'take up a new hobby', a few new ones have appeared; 'start a bullet-journal' and 'house de-cluttering'. Whilst a bullet journal appealed to me greatly, I am not very creative plus I have the attention …

Balancing Babies, Books and Beads – What It Means To Be A work at home mum

Balancing Babies, Books and Beads - What It Means To Be A work at home mum - A guest post from Laura Smith of the fabulous Hex Nex Jewellery. If you don't know what a WAHM is, don't worry. It's an acronym that's only recently entered my vocabulary too. So as it turns out I was one …

Beautiful Birth

Beautiful Birth - A guest blog by Beccy Angove. There are lots of things I love passionately. My children, obv! My lovely partner in crime and my mum, double obv! Then there’s the prosecco, cheese, bread and chocolate which is possibly the reason why I still look 7 months pregnant! But there are two not …

Living with Endometriosis

I, along with 1 in 10 other women, suffer from endometriosis. Endometriosis is a gynaecological condition whereby the lining of the womb grows outside the womb. The blood build up causes scar tissue, inflammation, and sometimes cysts. This causes me great pain, bowel issues, and can cause infertility as the tissue can block Fallopian tubes …

Harper’s First Birthday – A Peter Rabbit Themed Party

Birth Trauma – One mother’s experience

Birth trauma is when post traumatic stress occurs following childbirth. Sadly, it is often overlooked that some women suffer from intense psychological distress for a complex variety of reasons as a consequence of childbirth. Here, Danielle Mammon bravely shares her raw personal experience of birth trauma. As the one year mark approaches, I'm finding myself …

Ab separation during pregnancy – what it is and how to test for it

*I am by no means a professional and any information is research I have carried out myself. If you think you have ab separation, speak to your GP or health visitor* I recently had an amazing personal training session with Nicki Ryder from Fit Inside Out. It was during this that she felt my stomach …

Mama Bear Loves… Nom Nom Kids (Review)

Who are Nom Nom Kids? Nom Nom Kids are run by mum of two, Suzanne. Inspired by her own want to be able to fill shop-bought pouches with her own pureed creations, and also her desire to be more sustainable (pre-filled pouches are non recyclable), she began developing the Nom Nom Kids range. What are …