MumUnplugged

I had an email from the lovely folks at Cosatto yesterday offering me a sneaky peek at some of their new products for 2010.  I really like the Cosatto brand because their stuff is funky, great quality and doesn’t come with a hideous price tag!  Ever since I found out I was pregnant with Bubs [...]

Welcome Carnival of Breastfeeding readers!  This month’s topic is Breastfeeding and Working.  Be sure to scroll to the bottom to read some great posts by other bloggers!
When I first read the title of this month’s carnival my initial reaction was to think that I didn’t have an awful lot to say on the subject of [...]

If you haven’t already noticed, I feel it’s my duty to bring it to your attention that Mamas & Papas now have a rather fantastic outlet section on their website!  I absolutely adore M&P but really resent paying their extortionate prices so I am loving this, especially as there seems to be a bit of [...]

…I wanna be like you-hoo-hoo!  Bubs has discovered that it’s funny to copy and whether he’s parroting everything we say (recently heard words include ’sit!’ and ’sake!’ - Mummy’s potty mouth needs curtailing) or imitating our expressions and gestures, he’s giving a whole new meaning to the term ‘Mini Me’.  Today I was getting dinner [...]

There’s nothing quite like the Northern Irish climate to throw you a curveball and this weekend we finally, FINALLY got a snippet of the summer we’ve been waiting for all these months.  Which meant only one thing as far as I was concerned - a trip to the beach!  Bubs had hitherto never dipped his [...]

We recently welcomed our very first nephew, Ethan, into the world; he’s a gorgeous little boy and everybody is completely smitten with him already.  It’s going to be so wonderful watching him grow up and I really hope he and Bubs become best pals.  He isn’t even a week old yet but Ethan’s mummy is [...]

So I guess it’s pretty obvious from this video what major development has happened in our house over the last few days; and you can see from that little face that we’re not the only ones who are proud as punch!  It’s funny to see Bubs on two feet and somehow he looks smaller when [...]

Because of my job, I am one of those annoying mummies who has a small obsession with trying to keep a stylish home in spite of the invading toys, food splatters and general child-related detritus that tends to accumulate when there’s a little person on the loose.  So when I find a product that is [...]

I just came across this article in the Times; claiming that the NHS is ‘overselling’ the benefits of breastfeeding and suggesting there is little evidence to support claims that it protects babies against allergies, obesity, certain cancers etc.
I get really mad when I read things like this because it just adds to a body of [...]

Now that Bubs is moving around - i.e. crawling, cruising and climbing EVERYWHERE, we’ve had to bite the bullet and do some babyproofing.  I’ve resisted this for a while because I really hate the inconvenience of all those locks and catches and gates but after Bubs nearly going head first down the stairs one morning [...]