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The sixth trimester of parenthood – have you experienced it yet?

From the moment you see those two blue lines on the pregnancy test, the trimesters begin. The first is by far the slowest, a mixture of fear and excitement, as you hope and pray that this one will stick. If you’re lucky and it does, the second and third trimester (more often than not) fly by in a blur of…

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Winter is coming…let the marital battle over the thermostat commence!

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing quite like the changing of the seasons and the arrival of cold weather to create a bit of marital disharmony in our house. You see, while my wife is one of those ‘constantly cold’ people, who carries around a hot water bottle for 10 months of the year and would have our…

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Could this be the lightest pushchair in the world?

As parents, every day can feel like an ‘arms day’ at the gym, lugging around more heavy weights than a fledgling bodybuilder getting ready for their first competition. From ludicrously weighty changing bags and never-diminishing laundry baskets to countless supermarket shopping bags, not to mention our ever growing babies (who get heavier and heavier by the day), it’s no wonder…

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Why I’ve got so much time for baby brands that design products with new dads in mind…

As a new dad, it can often feel like we’re low down the priority list when it comes to parent and baby brands. Whether it’s through their advertising, branding or design, so many products on the market today are unashamedly targeted directly at mums, with us poor dads barely getting a look in. But after working with Graco, one of…

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Why I have nightmares about losing all our family photos (and what I’m finally doing about it)

It’s one of those jobs that’s constantly at the top of my ‘To Do’ list. But for some reason it just never gets done; backing up all the photos of Teddy since the day he was born. We literally have thousands. So many, that we’ve now maxed out the storage on both of our laptops and phones, and been forced to…

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