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Four things you don’t have time for when you’re a mum (because… children)
From the second they emerge into the world, children have a real knack of taking up all of our waking hours, and plenty of our sleeping ones too. There’s no avoiding the fact that this kinda puts the kibosh on pre-baby indulgences like showering unobserved, hoovering...
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Everything you need to know about spring babies
With the news that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry - Duke and Duchess of Sussex - are expecting their first baby in spring 2018, here’s Rachel Tompkins, (mother of a spring baby herself), about what to expect when you give birth at that time of year… Maternity leave...
“I’ve never felt more lonely.” “I feel so isolated.” “I feel like a non-person.” Mush users share their honest experiences of new motherhood on World Mental Health Day.
New mums are facing a triple whammy of exhaustion, loneliness and worry according to research by Mush, the local social network for mums. Mush founders Katie Massie-Taylor and Sarah Hesz asked users of the app to share the hardest things about becoming a mum ahead of...
What NOT to do when naming your baby
With Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans and his wife, Natasha, causing recent controversy with the choice of names for their twins (Boo and Walt for anyone who hasn’t heard), our choice of baby name has never been more in the spotlight, or faced more scrutiny. Never has there...
Quitting the city for suburbia – are you ready?
With Prince Harry and Meghan Markle having allegedly just signed a lease on a home in the Cotswolds, the craze of quitting the city for suburbia is gathering momentum. And all us parents know that there’s nothing we want more than what’s best for our precious little...
The Mush mums’ taste test of toddler food
If you’ve got a weaning baby or a toddler you’ll be familiar with ‘baby Wotsits’. They’re those bits of edible orange polystyrene that you can give to babies to suck. You’ll have spent an hour or two last week chiselling dried bits of them off your coffee table. You...
How ditching the kit was way easier than expected
‘All the gear and no idea’ pretty-much sums up any first-time parents. Most of us are willing to invest in anything that we think will make our baby sleep/feed/travel/live better. And before we know it we’ve amassed a whole mountain of paraphernalia that we think our...