Beaches Baby Blog
Packing and Hot Tips for a Trip Away with a Baby, a Toddler and a Dog!
We love to travel but travel with kids is so different to travelling solo or as a couple! With restrictions on travel lifting I thought I would share my travel packing list - Noting that you will always forget at least 1 thing!
Dads - Finding The Comfort in Discomfort
Reframing it this way gives you a rationale and fuel for the struggle as it is an investment into your bond, why would you not want that.
And it will get better, the feeding, the sleeping, the cleaning, being together. You will get better and the baby will get better, you are learning and developing new skills together, 10,000 hours so the books tell me.
4 Important Parenting / Life Messages
After talking to my virtual Prenatal Mums and New Mums groups last week I wanted to take a minute to remind everyone of 4 important messages that are so easy to forget.
Home Birth - A Positive Birth Story
Given everything that is happening in the world at the moment, there is a lot of interest from pregnant women in making the switch to home birth.
Life In Lockdown - Are You OK?
What a roller coaster life has been lately! Are you ok? Are you realising how much you love contact with other people or relishing in the down / home time? Maybe it's a combo of both.
It's been really nice spending extra time with my kiddos but I will admit, I personally am not cut out to be a 24/7 stay at home Mum.
How Breastfeeding Mums Are Being Undermined.
A beautiful Mum popped into the shop this week, we got chatting and she also has a 4 month old baby who had just had his vaccinations. I asked her how things we going and she revealed she was upset because she had just spoken to the GP about how she was feeling like maybe she didn’t have as much milk as once before and the baby was waking up a little more than usual.
2019 Wrap Up
Dear Beaches Baby Family
Wow! What a Year 2019 has been!
Thank You from the bottom of our hearts for embracing our little business with open arms. Thank you to the amazing families who are believing in our business, coming to classes, workshops and support groups. Thank you for stopping in for a chat, sharing your stories of joy and heartbreak with us, talking to us about your birth, your traumas and recovery and showing us your resilience. Thank you for sharing your stories of loneliness and anxiety and I hope that in some way we have been able to help you find people, resources or just be an ear when you needed it. Being a Mum or Dad is a journey, that’s for sure and we love being there with you.
Our Inaugural Dads Club...It's been a HIT!
We are so excited to say that we have had a huge success with their inaugural Dads Club and we wanted to share the news!
This six week program that brings new Dads on the Northern Beaches together was set up to connect, support and inspire Dads. The first program has just been completed and the results have been outstanding!
R U OK? Why we won't stop helping you find your village.
So this week was R U OK day. An important day of checking in with people around us who might be at risk.
I’m a little later talking about this than I would like as I did have a day this week where I wasn’t ok myself.