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Summer Family Food: How to avoid overdosing on sandwiches when you have small children!
Do you ever find that summer menus for the children look like sandwiches, sandwiches and more sandwiches? While during term time I'd...
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Anna le Grange
- 4 min
Lactation consultant explains how meditation helps with breastfeeding (and how to do it)
There’s no doubt that parenthood can be stressful, and the early weeks, whilst learning to feed your baby, can be a time full of...
Lucy Higgins
- 4 min
Sick of being told you need to slow down? How to avoid burnout when slowing down isn’t an option
For the past 18 months my friends and family have continuously warned me that I needed to slow down. But I felt I had no choice, I was in...
Marion Shortt
- 3 min
Sleep deprivation, desperation and self-care
When my two daughters were four and six, my husband and I had a glimpse of something. We had a stretch of unbroken sleep for almost two...
Alice Darbyshire
- 5 min
Three ways to boost your confidence as you return to work
Confidence is the most consistent theme in my coaching work and for mums returning to work, it strikes a particularly resonant chord. It...
How to manage the afternoon energy slump
Scientists call it the ‘post-lunch dip in arousal’… that afternoon slump in energy that has us all reaching for caffeine and sugar hits....
7 Tips for a Calmer Start to the School Day
Getting the kids out the door on school days is a challenge for every parent, but there are things we can do to promote collective...
Catherine Hendy
- 5 min
A Guide to Secondary Infertility - What it is and how to manage it
Many people have never heard the term "secondary infertility" but it affects an estimated 10% of all couples, and can be emotionally...
The Impact of Covid on mothers and how Nourish can help
At the best of times, the transition to motherhood is a vulnerable chapter, but during a global pandemic those challenges are...
Rebecca Oxtoby
- 4 min
Bex’s maternity-leave diary and her response, one year later...
Hi, I’m Bex. I know guest blogs don’t typically start with a self-introduction, but I’d feel as though I threw you right in if I didn’t...
Emma Amoscato
- 4 min
Parenting a child with allergies: how to manage your anxiety
As I watched my son totter around the playgroup, I couldn't pay attention to what the other mums were saying as my eyes were scanning the...
Three ways to reframe your insecurities as a mother
In a world where picture perfect families are what we are told we should aspire to; day to day motherhood is far from picture perfect. It...
Silke Thistlewood
- 6 min
Loving kindness phrases and soothing touch for mums
We all have a tendency to be really harsh to ourselves in the way that we talk to ourselves and this is often amplified in motherhood. ...
Mandy Rees
- 4 min
Why we all need a mother's circle and how to create yours
Navigating our way through motherhood is far more difficult than we're ever led to believe. It’s a tough job and one we're unlikely to be...
Emily Mills
- 4 min
How to let go of the mother you thought you were going to be
When I was 25, I thought my life was pretty much mapped out. I would get married, have a couple of kids and that was how life was going...
How to rekindle self-love for greater confidence
How can we nurture self-esteem, self-compassion and self-love as busy mums? It’s so easy to lose sight of who we are among the nappies,...
Alice Darbyshire
- 4 min
Three ways for working mums to create calm in the chaos
Being a working mum has never been more challenging than it is right now. As I’m writing, we’re in the midst of another national lockdown...
Dr Kalanit Ben-Ari
- 4 min
Five proven ways for couples to nurture each other’s wellbeing as parents
Having and raising a child is a unique journey that is filled with excitement, joy and special moments. But having a little one who is...
Dr. Nneka Ikeogu
- 5 min
Connecting with your child: a parenting superpower and how to prioritise it in 2021
What a year 2020 was. None of us saw it coming (anyone else think there was an unprecedented use of the word unprecedented?!) and most,...
Balancing the parenting brain and how to avoid “blocked care”
Meeting our babies’ physical and emotional needs on a 24/7 basis is important for raising a secure and emotionally healthy child, but it...
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