Baby & ToddlersBlogNorth London

Baby massage and baby yoga courses in North London

Tuesday mornings 10.00am Baby Massage 11.00am Baby yoga Avenue House, East End Road, London N3 3QE Baby massage course – we concentrate a lot on baby’s internal organs and help to strengthen and develop systems such as digestive, immune and respiratory. We focus on helping mums with baby ailments such as wind, constipation, colic, congestion and poor sleeping patterns. Massage is designed to…
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Baby & Toddlers

Baby sleep - Leading by example (by expert Jo Tantum)

When you’ve just had a baby, sometimes it feels like they’re holding your sleeping hours hostage! In this article Jo Tantum (Baby sleep expert) shows us how to take back control, and encourage positive sleep patterns. This article is courtesy of www.greatvine.com     Isn’t life hard enough without having to live on very little sleep? Sleep deprivation has been named as a torture technique…
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Baby & ToddlersBlogCompetitions

Win 1 of 15 pairs of tickets to the Baby Show at ExCel (24-26 February 2012)

The Baby Show celebrates ten years with a brand new look London ExCeL, 24th-26th February 2012. For your chance to win these tickets, enter your answer to the simple question below in our dedicated competition page https://www.londonmumsmagazine.com/competition-area. The question is: ‘How old is the Baby Show?’ The deadline to enter is 19th February 2012. Facts: – 250 baby and parenting…
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Baby & ToddlersBlogBooksSchooling

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the most read children's book in Britain

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the most read children’s book in Britain, a study revealed yesterday. Researchers estimate that Eric Carle’s 1969 classic about a caterpillar that becomes a butterfly is read an average of nine times a year by the nation’s 5.5 million primary school children. The second most popular book is the classic Cinderella fairytale which is read around 8.7 times a year…
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Baby & ToddlersFeeding the FamilySchooling

Brain foods - new guidelines on pre-school food

New guidelines on preschool food from School Food Trust – expert comment from Dr. Lin Day, child development expert www.babysensory.com The brain is truly amazing and although we don’t know all its secrets yet, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that what we feed our children has a direct impact on their well-being, health and intelligence. Children who eat a steady diet of fast or…
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Baby & ToddlersBlogParenting Skills

Cost-cutting tips for new parents

Helpful tips for mums from Dr Lin Day, founder of www.babysensory.com. Expectant parents can spend thousands of pounds on baby clothes, toys and other essentials before the birth. However, as many experienced parents will know, most items can be obtained at little or no expense and without depriving babies of anything that they really need. In fact, a new baby needs relatively little, except…
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Baby & ToddlersBlogGet CreativeParty tips

ARE YOU DAME FOR A LAUGH? Bring The Magic of the Panto Season Into Your Own Home - Top Tips for the Perfect Panto

Christmas cross-dressing and a dancing horse signal the start of the uniquely British tradition of the Pantomime Season. Bringing festive cheer to whole families, these magical adventures are often the first taste of theatre that children get. Susie McKenna, Creative Director of the Hackney Empire who are doing Cinderella this year, explains: “Pantomime is an important cultural step for…
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Baby & ToddlersBlogTested & Recommended

Mum... what foot?

There is something quite sweet about seeing a youngster with their shoes on the wrong feet – but when the child is insisting that they are on the correct feet and refuses to change them over – it stops being cute! When graphic and website designer Ellen Lichtman’s daughter was three years old, she provided her mum with an “Aha!” moment that would, four years later, become a unique…
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Baby & ToddlersBlogFitness & HealthGet CreativeSouth West London

Top tips to keep under 5s entertained

Here are Sarah Hobbs (head of family, David Lloyd Leisure) top tips to keep under 5s entertained. • The best way to get little ones active is to play with them – a three-year-old will try anything as long as the big person is doing it too • Make it fun and appeal to their sense of imagination – running is not just running, it is racing like a lion, as fast as a train, as hoppy as a…
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How many gloves and mittens will our little ones loose this winter?

This winter we won’t be misplacing any gloves and mittens. We have finally found GLOVE CLIPS to sort out this! The glove clips are also great gifts for any baby, toddler and school child too and the solution to NEVER LOSE A PAIR OF GLOVES AGAIN. We got them from a newly launched website called WWW.GLOVECLIPSANDMITTENCLIPS.COM The site has a nice little story behind. As you can guess a…
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