Archive for March, 2010

Are tears at bedtime REALLY good for babies?

If your baby needs help to settle it means he needs YOU. If your baby is excessively wakeful (if this is a problem to YOU, not onlookers), it means the reasons for waking need investigating, not a one size fits all baby training program

Planning your ‘baby moon’

I find it quite astonishing that people will spare no expense or effort to plan an elaborate wedding and a romantic honeymoon and yet the greatest change of life – having a baby- is often expected to be a mere ‘blip on the radar’ that should fit into an already busy schedule….

An adman’s woman

‘I knew I’d be a perfect mother. And my perfect baby would be a credit to my perfect mothering. I knew, too, that I would never ‘let myself go’ – that I would always be immaculately groomed and, eventually, surrounded by a whole family of perfectly clean, perfectly behaved children and a perfectly adoring husband in a gleaming, perfectly sparkling home.

‘Alas, I wasn’t like the TV mothers…..