My post earlier this week about the mistakes we made with Max's nursery got me thinking about some of the other mistakes we made in our first year as parents - or things we'd do differently, rather. To be fair, I think "mistake" is probably too strong a word here, because, ...

  This morning, as this post goes live, Max and I will be heading to the pool for our final session - for now, at least - of the Turtle Tots baby swimming lessons we started back in February. Apparently there will be badges handed out. We're very excited about this. ...

In my last post I talked at (very great) length about all of the baby products we've been finding most useful lately, so today I thought it might be interesting to take a look back at some of the products we didn't end up using, even although we were sure ...

  When you're brand new parents, there's no shortage of information on there on the so-called 'essential' baby products you absolutely need to buy: and, yes, I totally wrote one of those articles too, when Max was tiny - you can find it here, if you're particularly interested. There isn't quite so ...

When I was pregnant with Max, one of the things I was most looking forward to about parenthood was reading with him. Once he was actually here, though, I quickly realised two things:  01.That if I was just looking for an excuse to re-read Harry Potter  - and I think we all ...

[Disclosure: Max is a Turtle Tots brand ambassador, and receives his classes free of charge.] Last week, Max and I attended our first ever Turtle Tots swimming class. Thanks to all of your tips, both on my last post, and over on Instagram, I went in feeling well and truly prepared for ...

Max is a Turtle Tots Ambassador! When we saw how much Max enjoyed being in the water during our recent holiday to Tenerife, Terry and I figured it was probably time we started to think about booking him some swimming lessons.  Then we... well, we did absolutely nothing about it, basically, because, ...

Max's first birthday has got me feeling a little bit reflective - and by that I basically mean that, for the last week or so, I've been bugging the crap out of Terry by constantly going, "Can you believe that this time last year he was just one day old? ...

A few weeks ago, Max decided he hated being dressed. Or undressed. Or having his nappy changed. Or anything, in fact, that involves him having to lie still for a few minutes, because NONONO, this is intolerable, people! Intolerable! Really, though, he just wants to play, and crawl, and explore - ...

Ah, month 8 - 9 in the life of Max! That special time when Terry and I just started frantically buying up every damn thing we could think of that might - just might - entertain Max for just long enough for us to answer a quick email: or maybe ...