- Archive for December, 2011

[caption id="attachment_761" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=" "][/caption] How did you find your hospital’s post-birth care before you were discharged?  Did you have a nice chat with a friendly midwife who ensured you had a good understanding of the needs of your baby and the possible challenges to come?  Did you find that you left hospital armed with all the information and advice you ...

The New Year means new beginnings for many and an opportunity to start again, set some goals and make some changes.  These very often take the form of New Year’s resolutions for adults.  But what about children?  Is it a good idea or even healthy for children to have a set of New Year’s resolutions? I must admit, personally I change ...

Do you like reading? Do you feel that you don't get a chance to read as much as you did before you were a parent? Do you want someone to help you get back into reading? Can you make insightful comments in 140 characters or less?! If you do, head over to our book club page and join up.

Well, I don't know about you, but I have one excited Munchkin this year.  Christmas is coming, and we are definitely aware that that's a good thing!  Last year when asked what she wanted for Christmas, Munchkin (whose life was still measured in months, rather than years!) simply requested cake!  This year we wrote to Father Christmas and asked for face ...

Having just read Caitlin Moran’s ‘How to be a Woman’ (don’t worry I won’t spoil it for you book clubbers who haven’t finished it yet!) I now know how impossibly silly it is being a woman.  Moran has a brilliant way of showing us how idiotic we can be while allowing us to laugh at ourselves at the same time ...

If you've been trying since yesterday's Silent Sunday (billed as a trailer for today's post!) to work out what I'm posting about today, you need wait no longer! I know that we want to ensure that More Than A Mum doesn't become too London-centric, but I have to tell you about an amazing local place today. Today, munchkin, Daddy and I visited ...

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Firstly I would like to apologise to Not Just a Mummy for our tardiness in addressing this very worthwhile post.  The idea of this post is to list the things that you'd like for Christmas, that money can't buy and it's a tough one to do without sounding trite or hackneyed, but here is my attempt. 1) Smiles.  The thing that I am ...

Well we do hope you've all noticed our fancy new banner and logo...have you?  We like it a lot! And it's all thanks to a lovely and very talented lady called Rachael Jane (@rachinald).  She's a textile designer, photographer, graphic designer, vlogger, blogger, poet and overall creative thinker.  Talk about an inspiring lady!!! We found out about Rachael when we noticed ...

You may or may not know about my medical condition, Macro-madness. Unfortunately it means that I am physically compelled to spend large amounts of time with my camera in my hand attempting to photograph insects and plants at unfeasibly close range. I thought that a possible cure for this might be to attempt to merge it with my picnik-a-holic status ...