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We liked the idea of the flexibility (not to mention free babysitting) that an au pair would bring

How to find the perfect au pair

by Lucy Denyer

Last year, with the due date of our second baby looming, we decided to employ an au pair. I was going to be off…

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When life gives you 🍋 you need a @babyboosa bib

When life gives you 🍋 you need a @babyboosa bib! Have you discovered these yet? They’re soft (100% food grade silicone) and close fitting around the neck, which is just what Edgar needs as he’s not the tidiest eater 😜

❤️ this from the amazing @effortlessparenting

❤️ this from the amazing @effortlessparenting
“ As a child and family clinical psychologist, I always get asked if I have kids. ⁠⁠
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For years, my answer was ""no"" or ""not yet.""And even though I didn't have my own children yet, I spent most of my time carrying deeply for my nieces, nephews, children I nannied for, the foster children I was a CASA for, and those I saw in therapy. But the truth is that every time I answered this question, my heart sank just a bit. For the love I knew I had to give. For the joy I KNEW my family could experience. After all, it was the one thing I knew I wanted to be more than anything else in the world. ⁠⁠
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Now, thanks to science, my answer is: I have a sweet baby girl on the way!⁠⁠
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The reality is that the journey to get here has felt long and arduous at times. And at every turn, I chose to find hope and surround myself with love and positivity. It was a time when I took all of the learning I had done and put it into practice in my own life. I got to experience first hand the power of psychological tools as a person not a psychologist! So, for those of you experiencing the emotional and sometimes gut-wrenching journey of creating your family, I see you. I've been there, and I'm here for you.”

I don’t know about you but I find my children ca

I don’t know about you but I find my children can sometimes struggle to talk about big emotions. Clare Luther’s beautifully illustrated Little Paws Hotel children’s books 🐶 are designed to help children explore their thoughts and feelings and talk about how they are feeling. Read our interview with Clare (linkinbio) and see which book might suit your child. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ There’s Olive the miniature dachshund who is a bit of a worrier; Peggy is a lurcher who can be a little mean; Basil is a bereaved border collie… meet the whole pack @head2heartbooks

Always so exciting to discover a new #cookbook Thi

Always so exciting to discover a new #cookbook This one is AMAZING 🤩 The Little Growers Cookbook 🪴 It’s part gardening book, part cookbook, filled with cooking and outdoor activities for the family and delicious recipes. As you can see I homed straight in on the chocolate 🍰 but there are healthy things too such as pumpkin and courgette fritters and 10 veg soup 🍲. One of my fav activities is the little bird seed feeders made out of 🍊 and 🍋. What a great idea. What a great book. RECOMMEND

There are big perks to being boy #4 when you start

There are big perks to being boy #4 when you start getting into cars, trucks and transformers... 🚗🚗🚗 I think I should start holding back toys for gifting at opportune moments.

Nothing like an evening bounce listening to the 🐦 and the happy hum of London on @gardendayuk #gardendayuk

Our May edit 🌸 🐑 with recommendations from

Our May edit 🌸 🐑 with recommendations from @bloomsburymill @nextofficial @voksi_official and @mariechantalchildren #notanad

Beautiful London. We’ve been going slightly craz

Beautiful London. We’ve been going slightly crazy booking up fun outings for this summer .... Terrible Thames for example (@terriblethamestour) and 🤫 a virtual reality session (@dna_vr ) for the eldest boys. What are your London summer plans? ☀️

I’ll never forget the gloomy weeks surrounding m

I’ll never forget the gloomy weeks surrounding my first miscarriage. I was on bed rest for a week, in the hope that my twins might make it but they didn’t. Thankfully I had a compassionate boss, and I stayed at home to recover for a few days. Even so, when I returned to the office the following week I was a wreck. I could just about hold it together in front of my colleagues but the sense of loss was still so raw. It was all I could think about really. I felt let down by my body and struggled to think positively about the future. Great news from New Zealand, therefore, that mothers and their partners are being offered bereavement leave. Labour MP Ginny Andersen, who presented the bill, said it would allow parents to come to terms with their loss without being forced to use up their sick leave entitlements. “The grief that comes with miscarriage is not a sickness; it is a loss,” she said. “That loss takes time – time to recover physically and time to recover mentally; time to recover with a partner.” #miscarriage #miscarriageawareness #miscarriagesupport

Last year, while expecting her third baby, @rochel

Last year, while expecting her third baby, @rochellehumes first heard the shocking statistic that a black woman is five times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or the postpartum period than a white woman. Her amazing documentary, The Black Maternity Scandal: Dispatches, is on Channel 4 💫 N O W 💫

Easter 🐣 baking plans? We’ve stocked up on in

Easter 🐣 baking plans? We’ve stocked up on ingredients for these 🐓 cupcakes from Cupcake Magic (you can find the book on Amazon... it’s by Kate Shirazi). Can’t promise ours will look anything like this 🤞. #easterbaking #eastercupcakes #easterchick

👶🏼 loves this purée.
Steam a large carrot 🥕 , a sweet potato 🍠 and 3 baby 🍅 until soft, then blend together with 2 teaspoons of cream cheese and a few basil 🌿 leaves.

Morning workout ... Edgar is owning the yoga mat @

Morning workout ... Edgar is owning the yoga mat @mutusystem

The greatest gift we can give our children is to t

The greatest gift we can give our children is to teach them and show them that ALL their emotions are normal, and that they are all okay.

It is normal to have feelings. 👍

It is good to talk about feelings.👍

It is important to share feelings.👍

Everyone expresses their feelings in their own special way.👍

Imagine how our relationships would be different if we’d grown up receiving the message:

“Off course you feel that way, you are human.”

Like many people I know, I grew up thinking there were three emotions: happy, angry and sad.

Angry wasn’t acceptable, can you calm down please or go to your room until you’ve settled down?

Sad was met with a tissue. (Please wipe the tears away and wash your face).

The goal was always to always be HAPPY!

Unpleasant feelings are a part of living a valuable life but it’s what we do with those difficult feelings and how we learn to regulate them that is key to living with all the ups and downs of our emotional lives.

One thing that has helped me become more emotionally literate has been to develop a more nuanced emotional vocabulary to describe the way I’m actually feeling.
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You’re not sure what day of the week it is but i

You’re not sure what day of the week it is but it doesn’t matter because all the days are the same. 💤 There is work and school and meals and laundry, always laundry. There is nothing to do at weekends, no holidays to look forward to, just going to the common for the 40,000th time.
How to escape the tedium of our lives being in constant pause???
According to author Ilona Bannister, it’s all about escaping to our old selves, our old lives, the ones we took for granted. Eg Wearing your fav lipstick 💄 not because it will make you look better but when you see the lipstick mark on your coffee cup you will see a glimpse of yourself from before. Click #linkinbio to find out more 🤔❤️ Lipstick by
@hermes btw

Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, P

Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe #worldbookday 📚 📖 🦁 🧙‍♀️

Took some time out from homeschooling madness to c

Took some time out from homeschooling madness to chat to debut author Ilona Bannister about writing, lockdown parenting, PND, motherhood, careers, all sorts really. It was so nice to speak to another adult!! (And such an interesting one). Please listen to the P O D C A S T (#linkinbio) and read her amazing book, #wheniranaway @ilona.bannister

Newborn baby list ideas 💡 from @palomafaith - o

Newborn baby list ideas 💡 from @palomafaith - on the site today ❤️ #linkinbio

I think we all need a wool armchair rocker like th

I think we all need a wool armchair rocker like this. I’m going to be so sad when he grows out of it. As baby #4, Edgar has a bouncy chair in each room and this is definitely the one that sends him off to sleep the fastest! @wearemokee

🚲 I was shocked to learn that a child requires

🚲 I was shocked to learn that a child requires around FIVE bikes before they can afford to buy their own. That’s a big investment in bikes for us! Which is why I was v interested to hear more about @jointhebikeclub - a subscription service for kids bikes. Read all about it on the site today 🚲

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