Author: Gemma I had another blog intended to be published today but I was driving home from dropping Devon at nursery and on the news popped a story about smear tests and how they are looking at a DIY test because the current participation rate is at a 21 year low! With 1 in 4 [...]
Author: Gemma One thing is for certain after you have a child holidays are never the same. Gone are the days of taking a book to read by the pool, late nights and lazy mornings. A toddler brings many challenges and taking them away on holiday is a whole new territory and a definite eye [...]
Author Gemma Being a parent is hard, rewarding, full of surprises, good days and bad days. Devon is 19months old whilst I am no expert in parenting there is a lot I have learnt along the way. Here are the top 5 things I wish I had fully understood before becoming a parent - 1 [...]
Author: Gemma Recently on writing a post for a local magazine and being on maternity leave I felt overwhelmed with how much I love being outside and the power of a good walk. I wanted to write their and then about how just getting outside and breathing can sometimes lift the weight of the world [...]
Intro: Gemma. Main Body: Anna Here at The Artisan Baby Co we like our parents to be informed, to be offered choices and to presented with different opinions. Babies aren't a one size fits all and what works for one family may not work for another. Claire and mines experiences with our own little ones [...]
Intro: Gemma. Article: Dana Nichols Maternity leave seemed to fly by but gosh time seems to have entered supersonic mode since the return back to work. Days merge into each other and weeks speed past in a blink. The work/family juggle is real and hard and you often don't sit down until late in the [...]
Author: Gemma Most of us will have seen the big drive by the BBC and other media forces to make us aware of the damaging effects of plastic. If you haven't seen one of their programmes it would be hard to have missed seeing one of the heart breaking images of ocean wildlife caught up [...]
Author: Gemma I wrote this post a year ago, before Devon was mobile, reading back through not a lot has changed, this wedding season has been as much of a juggle as the last and I still struggle with the work, life balance... I will be the first to admit that I had a lot [...]
Author: Gemma When you have a newborn you are tired and sleep deprived, its part of the journey, its expected, everyone spends the months telling you and preparing you for the fact those first few months are going to be very lacking in sleep. The joy of maternity leave means life can slow down, sleep [...]
Author: Gemma I originally wrote this post in September last year when we took Devon on her first family holiday. I stumbled across it whilst having a file tidy up and just had to re-share. So many fond memories of our little trip away and right in the middle of wedding season I am longing [...]
