Every year, 1 in 8 babies are born prematurely or unwell, that’s 100,000 babies every single year. These babies need to spend weeks, sometimes months, in neonatal care units before they are strong enough to leave. Neonatal intensive care costs the NHS £1,500 per day and many hospitals do not have the equipment to care…
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[ad] 10 Pregnancy Essentials You Didn’t Know You Needed
Read moreNo two single pregnancies have the same effect on a woman. Some women may experience constant exhaustion, lack of energy, and never-ending nausea, while others go through pregnancy surprisingly energized and chic. While it’s not possible to predict the outcome and experiences of pregnancy, certain hurdles remain constant. Here are some of the most common…
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Money Saving Tips When Having A Baby On A Budget
Read moreHaving a baby is easily one of the biggest decisions that any couple will make in their adult life, yet strangely it’s also one of the easiest decisions to make. It’s the natural evolution of a relationship between man and woman after getting to know one another and enjoying some couple time, holidays etc. The…
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Finding Safe and Natural Products for Your Baby
Read moreOver a century ago, in 1903, George Hyland found Hyland’s. George was a pharmacist and wanted to create products that aligned with his belief in the power the human body holds. George believed that the human body can find internal resources to heal itself. This led George to found Hyland’s, a homeopathic medicine company. Homeopathic…
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The Family Bed No Wait A Minute It’s The Wife’s And Mine
Read moreWhere oh where did I sign a contract all those years ago that said I would accept our nearly seven year old twin girls crawling into our bed in the middle of the night, and I seriously mean, every night! Not one night will pass by where we do not wake up in the morning…
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Capturing Those Magical Images When Your Baby Has Arrived
Read moreAfter nine months of pregnancy and waiting for your baby to be born, once your new baby has entered the world, life is turned on its head and time becomes a premium because you simply don’t have enough time to do anything. It’s all about the baby and let’s be fair they are incredibly time…
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Safe Remedies to Help Your Child Feel Better and Sleep Soundly
Read moreYou want your child to get the most out of their rest time in bed because you’re a good parent and good parents think like that. Sleep can be taken for granted at times, but we must never let it fall down the pecking order because it plays such a pivotal role that you simply can’t function…
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Finding Childcare That Suits Your Family
Read moreUnfortunately we live in a world nowadays where both people in a relationship have to work more often than not to keep their heads above water. When a relationship changes and children are introduced to the equation, decisions about working and childcare have to be made. Where a lot of people are lucky enough to…
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My Premature Twins: World Prematurity Day
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know I’m a father of five children and there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t feel lucky and blessed to have five healthy children. Of my five children, two of them are five year old twins who were born premature. They were six weeks early. When…
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When I Became A Dad To Premature Twins #Ad
Read moreIn life there are defining moments, occasions or happenings that will change you and how you approach life thereafter. My particular moment in life where I re-evaluated what was really important to me was when my twin girls were born. All of sudden everything else really didn’t matter. Work, money, the material things of life…
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My Five Year Old Twins Are Finding Independence
Read moreWhen you are five years old it never ceases to amaze me how quickly children change and develop, and my five year old twins are no different to other children. In school they have recently been moved up a level in their reading books which was very pleasing to see. Both the girls recognition of…
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Protecting Preemie Babies With Pampers: My Story #ad
Read moreI’m a dad of five children. My two youngest children are twin girls who are now five years old. They are of course very normal, funny, sometimes mischievous healthy little girls, but when they were born they were premature. The girls were six weeks early and they needed a lot of medical attention. My wife…
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6 Things Every New Parent Should Learn
Read moreBringing a child into the world is a wondrous occasion – but that doesn’t mean it’s totally stress-free. New lessons are learned everyday as a parent, with some proving to be crucial to the development of your little one. Today, let’s take a look at six things every new parent should learn. 1. Sleep…
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Parents: Those Disapproving Looks Of Judgement
Read moreWe have all been in the supermarket, restaurant, shopping centre or simply going about our business walking down the street, when in the background increasing in volume you can hear a child having a trantrum, screaming the place down or a baby crying. No one knows why, but there will always be a reason. The…
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Preparing Your Home For New Arrivals
Read moreAs any experienced father can tell you, preparing the home for new arrivals is both a daunting and joyous moment. It’s daunting due to the fact that having a child in the home is going to be a tough task. Not only will you need to prepare the entire home to make it childproof, you’re…
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Premature Babies: A Dads View
Read moreI recently read a post by my wife, Emily from Twin Mummy and Daddy about having premature babies. I thought it was a brilliant, informative post for anybody who could be faced with having a premature baby. Our girls were born six weeks early. This is something we obviously didn’t plan on happening, but we…
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Clean Ends No Waste Wipes Review
Read moreI dread to think how many wet wipes I have used after having five children, but needless to say it’s a lot! On many occasions they’ve been flushed down the toilet and caused massive problems with the sewers which is then an expensive job to be sorted out. It’s always something that I have been…
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Breast or Bottle: A Dads Perspective
Read moreI seem to read a never ending amount of posts about the advantages and disadvantages of breast or bottle, and 99.9% of the time they are written by mums, which if I’m honest is what I would expect. There always seems to be a lot of argument and debate over what is best,…
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Is There a Right Way to Be a Parent?
Read moreWhen you become a parent for the first time there is no doubt you’re completly clueless, so as new parents we often go off to our local bookstore to buy some parenting books because of course when the baby is impossible to comfort and screaming the place down at 2am you can quickly run to…
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Creating Life is Just Truly Awesome
Read moreI have always felt blessed to have been a part of creating five lives. My children really are my world, bit cliche I know, buts it’s true. I have always been fascinated that from the moment of conception this human being growing in the safe place of a woman’s womb is protected from everthing in…
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My Daughters and neo-natal
Read moreIf you are a regular reader of my blog you might have read that that my 19 year old daughter is currently in her second year of university studying child nursing. Part of the course involves going out on placement to different hospitals and gaining experience in all the facets of child nursing. The placement…
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