Category: Parenting
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Can We Celebrate Vaccinations?
I’m a mum. I’m busy. So far so cliched. I don’t know if it’s true but there are plenty of people who would argue that my generation of parents have more stress, more demands packed into our limited head space, than any before. We should be raising our kids with infinite attention to every aspect…
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Meal Plan Monday – Why Weight Watchers?
We live in a world overflowing with health and diet advice, you can barely move for superfoods, detoxes and magical formulas that promise massive results with minimal effort or else demand huge dedication, self-control and of course, cash. To my shame, I’ve tried a couple of them. I once attempted a seven-day juice diet that…
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Welcome To The New Southwarkbelle
Notice anything different? Well if I’ve managed to do this properly then southwarkbelle.com will now bring you here, my new WordPress blog. I decided it was time to try swapping over as WordPress is easily the main platform for blogs now and I need to use it for my reviews over on Festivalkidz.com. So it’s…
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Meal Plan Monday – Getting Started On Weight Watchers
Happy new year lovely people. How are you all? I’m going to be trying to make quite a few changes with Southwarkbelle this year. More on that in a bit but, at risk of being a new year cliche, I’ve also got a few personal changes to make. The first of those is shifting some…
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Paying Women To Breastfeed: A few things to think about
Our old friend the NoSH study is back in the news today, I wrote about the feasibility study a while ago but they have now conducted and published a much larger trial looking at financial incentives to encourage women to breastfeed. What is the Study? The study looked at electoral ward areas where…
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Healthy Eating – We Need Honest Information Not Expensive Ingredients
I am currently breast feeding a small baby. Which means two things: 1: I spend a lot of time idly scrolling through Facebook. 2: I am constantly hungry. So I was very happy for the random algorithms at face face to offer me a recipe for a “Healthy” chocolate dessert. I am not one…
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Breastfeeding; Science, Advice And Survival
I’m on baby number three now, so I guess that makes me an experienced mum (at least of this age group). But from this exalted status I have only one* good bit of advice: Don’t judge other parent’s choices by what works for you. Or your own by what works for them. The…
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London Bridge Won’t Fall Down
I have a new baby. MissA is just three weeks old and so I live in a world where normal time is suspended. Day and night are a continuous blur where sometimes it just happens to be light or dark. Where I long to sleep all the time but could be summoned from that slumber…
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37 Weeks Pregnant And A Little In Denial
I’ve been pretty absent from the blog for a while for a combination of reasons. Some of these were simply practical. We’ve just finished a building project in our house, it’s great but has meant every single room was in chaos. Combine sorting that out with two kids, a job and needing to go to…
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I will March With My Daughter
I will march with my daughter.Because when I hold her hand, it’s not so small as it used to beand I can’t hold it forever. I will march with my daughter.Because she can go to school and feed her fizzing mindwhile so many can’t, because they happen to be girls. I will march with my…
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