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Today’s guest blog is from Orla Kelly a mum to 2 quirky kids. Orla worked as an environmental consultant for over 12 years but her life changed when her son caught TB at 23 months and became really...
View Article10 Difficult feelings it’s normal to have in pregnancy
Today’s guest blog is from Charlie Wilson, author of Survival Guide for New Parents: Pregnancy, Birth and the First Year . Although pregnancy is a magical time for many it is also a time where your...
View ArticleUp the duff without a paddle!
Today’s guest blog is from author Amy Ransom, whose first novel ‘Up the duff without a paddle’ has just been released and is a humorous and touching portrayal of the challenges of pregnancy and the...
View ArticleBlog of the Week: Adopt and Keep Calm
Our Blog of the Week this week comes from Adopt and Keep Calm who looks back at the transitioning of her soon to be adopted son into her family. The post – ‘Transition…looking back’ gives us an insight...
View ArticleRosie Shelley – From a parenting blog to the world of Google
Today’s guest blog is from Rosie Shelley who describes her journey from starting a parenting blog to the world of Google and how she juggles work with motherhood....
View ArticleBlog of the Week: ‘Parenting – what matters most?’
It’s Blog of the Week time again and we have picked out this little gem from Ross Mountey’s Notebook. The post asks a big question ‘Parenting – what matters most?’ and gives a surprising but...
View ArticleBlog of the Week: Is she REALLY a Domestic Goddess?
It’s Blog of the Week time again and this week we have Jayne from Mums the Word playing detective with all those annoying domestic goddesses that we know. We’re not sure we would actually go to these...
View ArticleBlog of the Week: Keeping calm is over rated
This week our Blog of the Week comes from Caitriona who blogs at Wholesome Ireland. When she’s not cooking nutritious and delicious dinners on a very strict budget for her family, Caitriona can be...
View ArticleBirth and beyond – have you got a Plan B?
Today’s guest blog is from Ruth Briddon who has just published a new novel ‘Being Sarah Chilton’. It has been described as: If ‘Bridget Jones’ had a child and then was left on her tod, this book is...
View ArticleBlog of the Week – Don’t stand on your sisters head
Blog of the Week time again on Netmums and this week we’ve selected a hilarious post that we could all relate to from Cakes, Kids and other ramblings who shares with us some of the things she finds...
View ArticleBlog of the Week – How to survive Playgroup
Our Blog of the Week comes from the ever brilliant and extremely witty Eeh Bah Mum who shares her top tips on how to survive playgroups and toddler groups. We’d love to know your playgroup/toddler...
View ArticleTeam Netmums – where would we be without our mum-friends?
It’s Friday and time for another Team Netmums blog and this week we have been thinking about just where we would be without the friends we have made since becoming mums....
View ArticleThe Honest Toddler
You may well have heard of The Honest Toddler. The ‘tell-it-like-it is’ tot is, after all, an online celebrity with over 240,000 Twitter followers and 135,000 Facebook fans. With the tag-line ‘Not...
View ArticleMeeting Motherhood – Intensive Care and Helplessness
Today’s guest blog is from mum Stacey Corrin, who blogs at Fives a Fellowship . She writes about a really hard time in her life, watching her son fight for his life in intensive care. We’d like to...
View ArticleBlog of the Week – Being Fat
Our Blog of the Week this week comes from Mummy Barrow who was inspired to write about our constant scrutiny of our own bodies after reading a related article that made her cry....
View ArticleTeam Netmums – juggling work and family
It’s Friday which means it’s time again for another Team Netmums blog. And you’re in luck because this week’s been so frantic that we almost didn’t have time to string two coherent sentences together!...
View ArticleBlog of the Week – Many Small Voices
Our Blog of the Week this week is a blog that is new to the Netmums Bloggers Network and simply stopped us in our tracks on reading it. Many Small Voices is a ‘network committed to speaking out about...
View ArticleEnd of term is nigh and hankies are at the ready
Traditionally New Year marks sees out the old and rings in the new but for parents often it is the end of a school year and the beginning of the next which is more meaningful than waiting for the bells...
View ArticleBlog of the Week: It’s not beautiful but it’s mine
Our Blog of the Week this week is from the Merry at Patch of Puddles - a beautiful blog by a beautiful blogger. Unfortunately like many of us she doesn’t always think so, but she’s trying to change all...
View ArticleBlog of the Week: Post birth memories
It’s all been about the royal baby this week as we all waited first for the announcement of the birth and to find out that it was a boy and then yesterday we all waited to get our very first glimpse of...
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