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About crummymummy1

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

10 ways pregnancy changes your face

Forget Adele’s beard. Hairs sprouting on your chin are the least of your worries in pregnancy. They say being pregnant [...]

By |March 30th, 2016|Parenting|44 Comments

5 reasons Easter is better with kids

It’s occurred to me that between being a teenager and having kids I don’t think I can recall any Easter [...]

By |March 28th, 2016|Family life|25 Comments

#MySundayPhoto

Happy Easter from the Crummy Mummy household! Instead of giving chocolate eggs to family and friends this year BB and [...]

By |March 27th, 2016|Family life|8 Comments

5 ways to survive Easter weekend

I’m so glad it’s Easter! After working overtime to make up for the fact there’s two bank holidays in a [...]

By |March 25th, 2016|Family life, Reviews|36 Comments

Could you cope with a sudden death?

A few weeks ago one of our neighbours died. She had a brain tumour and was responding well to treatment, [...]

By |March 23rd, 2016|Family life, Parenting|10 Comments

Jamie Oliver’s right, breastfeeding IS a problem

‘Leave my tits alone’ and ‘stop mansplaining’: those are some of criticisms levelled at Jamie Oliver after he said something [...]

By |March 21st, 2016|Breast feeding|57 Comments

#MySundayPhoto

After umming and ahhing about whether we should take BB to her great granddad's funeral, it was the day in [...]

By |March 20th, 2016|Family life|10 Comments

5 reasons to enter Tots100 MAD Blog Awards

Nominations are officially open for Tots100’s annual MAD Blog Awards. If you haven’t heard of them before, the MAD (mum [...]

By |March 18th, 2016|Blogging|94 Comments

Are you guilty of competitive tiredness?

I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in almost a year and a half. At 16 months old Little B [...]

By |March 16th, 2016|Family life|46 Comments

Weird things I can’t do since having a baby

Obviously there are going to be things you can’t do after having a baby that you could do before. Like [...]

By |March 14th, 2016|Parenting|36 Comments

#MySundayPhoto

A lot of #MySundayPhotos come from the beach, so this week I thought I'd share a picture taken in the [...]

By |March 13th, 2016|Family days out|11 Comments

Is it ok to kiss a child on the lips?

I don't mean any child, I mean your child. I ask because this week I read a story about a [...]

By |March 11th, 2016|Parenting|23 Comments

Bake Box competition winner!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered our competition to win a fabulous Bake Box containing £40 worth of baking [...]

By |March 10th, 2016|baking, Competitions|0 Comments

Shame on you John Lewis

Have you heard about the mum who was frog-marched out of a John Lewis store because her toddler had a [...]

By |March 9th, 2016|Parenting|54 Comments

5 reasons Mother’s Day is a bad idea

So that’s it, Mothering Sunday is over for another year. I had a wonderful time and was thoroughly spoilt with [...]

By |March 7th, 2016|Family life|63 Comments