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Find out Melissa’s favourites for her daughters.

Last week we spoke to Zoe, mom to the gorgeous Harley, today we speak to Melissa from Pretty Messy Mellon to find out what some of her and her daughters favourites are.  I am Melissa, mother of two beautiful little girls aged 4 years and 6 months. I blog over on Pretty Messy Mellon  where […]

Will I ever sleep through the night ever again?

Those of you who have been reading for a while will know I did not birth sleepers. The boys were slightly better and now that Cameron is a teen, he has discovered the joy of sleeping. My girls, however, they have no time for sleep. We have never co-slept, we have tried it but no […]

This too shall pass – valuable advice

This too shall pass! If I had a slab of chocolate for every time someone has said those four words to be I would be richer than Switzerland! Usually people share those pearls of wisdom when you are exhausted because you managed to close your eyes for a total of 20 minutes the night before […]

Babies – then and now

I was asked recently asked by reader about what it was like having babies 12 years apart, in terms of the types of things we had then versus what we have now. So much has changed but so much has also stayed the same. The biggest difference now is that there is a lot more […]

Sleep? Who needs sleep!

None of my kids liked to sleep when they were babies. The all woke up once/twice a night until they were almost 2 – Kiara was 5 when she started sleeping through properly but they at least sleep 4/5 hours and then wake and all were easily calmed (except for the year that Kiara never […]

Tips for Getting Your Kids to Go to Bed, and Stay There

As some of you may know Emma isn’t sleeping! It seems to be getting better after I changed her formula on Friday but last night she was up every 2 hours – she is 4 months so this should not still be happening! It is exhausting! So the below article is very relevant right now! […]

Bit of a baby boom – it’s a great leveler.

In case you didn’t know, David is 5 years younger than me. He has a very large circle of friends but the majority are still younger than me. I battled a little bit in the beginning because they were still very much into partying. None of them were married yet and babies were certainly no […]

Things that go bump in the night

I have made peace with the fact that I may never ever sleep through the night ever again – EVER! For the most part Jack sleeps through, unless he is teething then he moans a lot – like A LOT. The thing is that we have 2 other kids in the house who, despite being […]

A form of torture?

There is a reason that women, in particular mothers, can not become successful spies or secret holders of any kind. If they are captured all their captors would need to do is leave a crying baby near them for an extended period and I promise you those secrets will tumble out. Over all Jack is […]

Advice for a new mom – For Louisa

Yesterday at Louisas baby shower we were all asked to write down some parenting advice in a little book, which I actually think could become a great source of comfort for her. I was battling at the time to think about what advice to offer because you receive so much advice and learn so much […]