Tips on Coping Reviews

My top tip for coping during the first year of your child's life, is to write the following out in large letters and hang it on the nursery wall: And this, too, shall pass Or, if you prefer: It's just a phase Either would work. You see, ...  Read the complete review

Baby fed, check. Nappy changed, check, body temperature ok, check. Sufficient array of toys in close proximity, check. Afternoon nap completed, check. Engaged in eye contact and reassured baby, check. Face clear of snot, dribble and gunk, check. Stomach blown on and feet waggled playfully, check. And still baby cries... 'Darling? The ...  Read the complete review

No matter how clued up you are on babies, being responsible for your own newborn child will have you questioning your sanity and whether you are ever going to get an oz of your life back to normal ever again. I had my second child six months a go and there is only 19 months between my two boys. I would have had less of a gap as we were trying for ...  Read the complete review

Your life changes more than you can ever imagine. The experience is amazing but challenging. My 2 kids (2 years and 4 months) are both really bad sleepers. I could never imagine what sleep deprivation was like. I wake up in the morning having felt that I have barely been in bed. How do we cope? - My husband and I take it in ...  Read the complete review

I am a first time parent with a 13 month old little boy. My husband has two children from his previous marriage, and so I expected him to be alot more experienced at parethood than me. Unfortunately he works all the hours god sends, and so I was pretty much left to it when our little boy was born. I will be honest, having a baby is alot of hard ...  Read the complete review

When i first became pregnant, like many other mums to be, i had a mixed array of feelings, part of me felt happy about becoming a mother, and part of me felt scared and worried about how i would cope. I mean it looked easy enough seeing other mums with their children, pushing them round in pushchairs and playing with them on the park- i was ...  Read the complete review

1. Time your pregnancy: If at all possible (and with modern contraception it is possible) plan your pregnancy. I don't mean plan as in meet Mr Right, get married, buy a nice house in the area for a good school and save enough money to give the child everything you think s/he should have (there will never be ''enough" money, just ...  Read the complete review

When me and my husband decided we were ready to start a family i thought everything was going to be plain sailing, my brother had had his child 4 years earlier and i had helped out a lot with her when she was a very young baby so didnt think i was going to have any problems and boy was i wrong. The first thing i hadnt banked on was the ...  Read the complete review

When you have your first child or children in my case (twins) it can be very hard. There is a lot to take in I didn't have a clue at first I had never even changed a nappy then suddenly I have twins and need to cope with two. My husband and our families were a great help though which helped loads. We lived away from our families so at times it did ...  Read the complete review

Coping with a baby and young infant is incredibly difficult; old or young, fat or thin, rich or poor, parents struggle with their children and the pressures that are put on them from a demanding outside world. I know that when I had my daughter, my first child, I never could have anticipated the level of judgement made by outside parties on my ...  Read the complete review

After seeing a review someone had written about infacol, It put back in my mind all those nights of crying, and how hard it is to cope when your little one has colic. So I decided to write down some advice and info that may be useful to anyone who is trying to cope with this. The first point i must make, and i want you to remember is ...  Read the complete review

Many people throughout their lives have terrible things happen to them or to people within their family. Some of these things are known about others our sudden. I thought I would share with you something terrible that happened in my family that caused devastation and unhappiness to us all. My step father- Richard, used to fly planes as ...  Read the complete review

So...... You think we teenagers have it easy then do you? Well, let me stop you right there and tell you, we certainly do not!!!!! You always say that people our age are so much luckier than you because we have things like video recorders and microwaves that you didn?t have when you were growing up, but they are so much trouble!!!! You ...  Read the complete review

Are you teenagers driving you round the bend??? When it comes to trerrible teenagers you have to remember who's the parent and whos the children. We all know how they can make you feel guilty for doing anything but you can let them you've got to be in control 1.Don't them eat the house out, you be in control of when they have ...  Read the complete review

My ten tips to help with going through the teens are simple and mostly work although as with everything to do with living through those teen years with your children things dont often go to plan. number 1 is never compare one child against another whatever their age. To say your brother or sister did this or that is a sure way to another ...  Read the complete review

When young Mums say about the dreadful 2's I have to have a smile to myself and think wait till its the teens. Now that is dreadful but we all have to go through it. Although I do think the teen problems are happening in the early teens now more than in the later teens as it did a couple of years ago. I have 3 ...  Read the complete review

I am a mother of five lads the youngest of which is nearly 18 so I have lived through the teenage years many times and still going through it. It would be great it you could just sit down with your teen and discuss the problems of the world and tell them the right way of going about their life but anyone who has a teenager knows that it is like ...  Read the complete review