Ah, tantrums! They are a developmental right of passage from when your child reaches around eighteen months old and can continue for years. Terrible twos, threenagers, ferocious fours and finally a reprieve with the fabulous fives before hitting the sassy sixes! It is exhausting, frustrating and mentally draining. Mix your child’s attitude, stubbornness, and general…
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The challenges of having a baby with reflux When you have a baby, the world and their wife will give you their advice on anything and everything. Including why your baby is screaming. What to do about feeding and how to manage a baby that ‘spits up’. But what if your baby isn’t just spitting…
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Why we need to stop normalising reflux in babies! In my former life pre-children and pre-emigrating to South Africa, I had a successful career as a specialist children’s nurse in the UK. During this time, I cared for many families both in hospital and in the community that had to discover the hard way about…
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We all have days when we feel like we are just rubbish at parenting. Days when the chaos becomes too much for both parent and child, when we have had to raise our voice (or specifically in our house, everyone descends into shouting), and when you feel like no one is listening. There is no…
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Parenting is full of double-edge sword moments. You love your children dearly but wish they would go to sleep so you can have some quiet or alone time. You want them to have a great appetite but grocery shopping to feed them is a schlepp (and expensive). Or you want to embrace parenthood but the…
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