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About crummymummy1

I'm a wife, mama of four, freelance journalist, author & blogger. Not necessarily in that order!

#MySundayPhoto

What a difference a week makes! Last week #MySundayPhoto was of my enormous baby bump - this week our baby [...]

By |February 19th, 2017|Parenting|24 Comments

Our Valentine’s Day baby!

As Valentine's Day presents go my gift this year has to be the best yet - none other than a [...]

By |February 17th, 2017|Pregnancy|67 Comments

How to teach your child to love good food #ad

Chicken fingers, potato waffles and baked beans. I don’t know about you, but when it comes to feeding the kids [...]

By |February 16th, 2017|Parenting|3 Comments

5 flexible jobs for stay-at-home mums

Want (or need) to bring in an income but also want to stay at home with your little one? For [...]

By |February 15th, 2017|Parenting|2 Comments

7 fun ways to treat kids’ colds

Blocked nose, dry lips, sore throat. We’ve all been there, done that and got the t-shirt but coughs and colds [...]

By |February 13th, 2017|Parenting|41 Comments

#MySundayPhoto

Last week #MySundayPhoto was what I was hoping would be one of the last pictures of BB and Little B [...]

By |February 12th, 2017|Pregnancy|20 Comments

5 ways to childproof Valentine’s Day

Forget swanky restaurants and weekends away - the chances are since becoming a parent Valentine's Day means a date night [...]

By |February 10th, 2017|Parenting|12 Comments

10 things they don’t tell you about being overdue

I’ve been overdue with all my babies. The first was 15 days late, the second was three days late and [...]

By |February 8th, 2017|Pregnancy|80 Comments

The trouble with the ‘perfect’ birth

They say no two babies are the same, and no two births are the same either. So far the saying [...]

By |February 6th, 2017|Pregnancy|46 Comments

#MySundayPhoto

With baby number three due any day now this probably one of the last pictures of BB and Little B [...]

By |February 5th, 2017|Parenting|20 Comments

10 superpowers all parents develop in the first year

They say parenthood is the steepest learning curve there is. If I think back to my pre-baby days and compare [...]

By |February 3rd, 2017|Parenting|47 Comments

Why I’m not writing a birth plan

What you want to happen and what you don’t. That’s the point of a birth plan, the one single page [...]

By |February 1st, 2017|Pregnancy|42 Comments

The only 10 things you need in your hospital bag

From hair straighteners to a pillow from home, there are more things I’ve packed in my hospital bag and haven’t [...]

By |January 30th, 2017|Pregnancy|42 Comments

#MySundayPhoto

At long last I am finally on maternity leave! I've set my out of office until May (such a good [...]

By |January 29th, 2017|Pregnancy|10 Comments

5 easy ways to detangle kids’ hair

If wails at wash time, shrieks at story time and sobs at school time sound familiar, read on. In our house [...]

By |January 27th, 2017|Parenting, Reviews|12 Comments