A Kiwi dad, so far known only as Johnny has incurred the wrath of the Internet after posting a snap of his young daughter taking a bite out of the “warm quivering heart” of a deer she just hunted. The images which show the proud dad and his eight-year-old daughter posing by the dead animal […]

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A serious collision took place in the early hours this morning on the R363 Brideswell to Athlone Road in Roscommon. A 23-year-old man, who was the sole occupant of one of the cars involved, has been taken to Tullamore Hospital where his condition has been described as serious. The accident happened at about 4 am […]

10 years ago

The back-to-school faff is getting underway, so we spoke to psychologist and dad-of-three, David Coleman, for some insider tips on how to make the transition from lazy summer days to school run traffic in sideways rain.  We’re particularly looing forward to those “expect delays on the Red Cow roundabout, all other roundabouts and all other […]

10 years ago

Child psychologist and father of three, David Coleman gives his practical tips to smooth that tricky transition from cosseted only child to big brother or big sister. “Before the baby arrives, make sure that your child is aware that this baby is coming! If you have hospital visits, it’s an idea to bring your child […]

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Families around the country are gearing up this week for that all-important day: The First Day Of School. For many of us this day is accompanied myriad emotions – shock that we have a child of school-going age, anxiety that the other kids won’t be nice, mild worry that our own little darling might bite […]

10 years ago

Missouri Mum, Raye Lee is pissed off about the attitude she has encountered regarding her c-section delivery. In a passionate Facebook post titled ‘Long Dramatic Post Warning’ she is intent on dispelling that age-old myth of the c-section being ‘the easy way out’ as infuriating phrases like “too posh, to push” imply. Lee decided to […]

10 years ago

I am starting to wonder if anyone ever died of heartburn, this is where I am at with my chronic pregnancy-induced heartburn at this point. Clearly, heartburn is not life-threatening, but I fear I could actually pass away at this stage through sheer goddamn irritation. Why won’t it just piss off? Oh yeah, probably because […]

10 years ago

Is anyone surprised that a pair of ‘hot pants’ from the Kardashian Kids clothing line have attracted a bit of ire this week? I mean, we’ve all seen what the entrepreneurial sistas consider to be ‘clothes’. Underwear mainly. The offensive shorts in question, to my mind anyway, provide infinitely more coverage than most of the get […]

10 years ago

Parenting forum BabyCenter have released a list of the most unpopular names of 2016 so far and frankly we were a little surprised at some of the gems that are apparently at the bottom of the barrel. I’m currently trying to name a bump and am always on the look out for names that are uncommon but not going […]

10 years ago

According to a study reported on Metro, the chunkier among us are not only more generously proportioned but also more generous in spirit. Ergo thinner people are more likely to be stingy. Way harsh. The research carried out by a German team, required 20 large men all weighing on average about 19 stone and 20 […]

10 years ago

Aussie funny guy Kinne has made a sketch about housework that basically is our lives. The video Stranger Things – The Washing Basket posted to Facebook, has been watched over 5 million times and racked up over 35,000 comments including gems such as this: “Annnnd there we have it! Proof! They think we are just […]

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A parent’s work is never done as we all know. How often are we traipsing after our kids dropping off vital forgotten items and so on? My own mother still wakes up to ring me whenever I have an early flight to catch. It’s hard to cut that umbilical cord and let kids stand on […]

10 years ago

An abandoned baby girl has been found in Krasnoyarsk in central Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Krai region by an 83-year-old woman. The baby was left on the steps of an orphanage accompanied by a note that is simply devastating. There were also nappies and wipes, and the baby was wrapped in a purple blanket – all signs […]

10 years ago

On paper, picking a name for a bump seems like it should be really fun but I have to admit both times I’ve tried, it has been a nine-month headache. Maybe I’m too indecisive, or maybe my other half is far too assertive with his opinions, either way trying to name our bump has thus […]

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A shocking verdict was handed down in Liverpool Crown Court this week when a defendant escaped jail despite having viciously attacked his pregnant partner and pushing her out of a moving car. The judge heard that an argument between the couple had erupted when he told his girlfriend that he couldn’t give her a lift […]

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Last week, Manchester mum, Nicola Colenso wrote a Facebook post to shame a woman who had treated her and her family abominably on a Jet2 flight from Ibiza. Colenso’s 8-year-old daughter, Yasmin, has a rare condition called Sturge-Weber Syndrome which is associated with seizures and developmental difficulties. Yasmin was seriously struggling on the flight and […]

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Reported in the Telegraph last week, a nervy new dad got an unexpected surprise as he waited on the birth of his baby – hemorrhoid surgery. Mr. Wang was reportedly mistaken for another patient as he waited outside a hospital ward in the Shenyang Hunnan Xinqu Hospital, China. Reports in the Bandao City News state […]

10 years ago

At 31 weeks pregnant I can barely get myself out of bed unassisted, so when I saw snaps on Instagram of badass mama, Kolby Fahlsing wake surfing at 40 weeks all I could think was “Respect.” The 32-year-old Minnesota mum was a keen wake surfer before falling pregnant and has kept it up throughout her […]

10 years ago

Once you’re super pregnant, I find the irrational thoughts and feelings start to come thick and fast. Seriously, the hormone deluge that I’m currently being hit with is like a Niagara Falls of terror, excitement, and confusion. I feel like society should be intervening and banning me from operating a car or being anywhere near […]

10 years ago

Singer and mum-of-three posted an adorable snap of her son, Ray to Instagram this week and used the platform to bemoan the “old-fashioned” gender stereotyping that still goes on in the kid’s department of clothing stores. The pic shows Ray sporting cute pjs in his favourite colour, pink. She explained that she’d had to buy […]

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At just three days old the Nurse family’s first child, who they named Zephany, was taken from her mother’s bedside while she slept at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa in 1997. The Nurses were devastated and continued to celebrate the birthday of their lost daughter every year. Last year, the baby’s aunt, Shantal […]

10 years ago

When you have young kids, it can feel like the potential for injury or even tragedy lurks around every corner. One blogger has written a sobering post warning of the dangers of a blind cord which nearly choked her son during a recent playdate. The author of The Troublesome Tokleys related her terrifying brush with […]

10 years ago

The Book is full of hospital lists and run downs of essential vitamin supplements and endless bizarre vegetable comparisons for your growing foetus, however The Book never managed to get to the nitty gritty of the practical things I’d need to get through this pregnancy lark. So I’ve (rather helpfully, I think) compiled my own list, though […]

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One Houston mum has experienced a parent’s worst nightmare when she discovered that strangers were watching her children in their bedroom over the internet. The safety-conscious mum had installed a security camera in the bedroom of her 8-year-old twin daughters. However, she later discovered (thanks to the quick-thinking of another concerned mother) that the footage […]

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Preparing for the birth of their fourth child, Caroline and JT Malatesta chose the Brookwood Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama for its reputation for promoting natural birth experiences and the centre’s apparent commitment to empowering women during their labour. It was a decision that they would come to regret after Caroline was badly mistreated […]

10 years ago

WARNING: Extremely upsetting content. In a tragic case, a 62-year-old mother has been charged with aggravated manslaughter in the US this week after her son (6) beat his newborn sister resulting in her death. The woman, who once took part in a reality TV show called I’m Pregnant and 55 Years Old, was arrested after […]

10 years ago

Jamie Oliver in his words “hacked” his wife’s Instagram account to snap this adorable pic of a sleeping Jools with their tiny new son. The proud dad and husband added a sweet caption to the post paying tribute to his wife of 15 years and to mums everywhere: “Bless them both sleeping and exhausted together I […]

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Police have launched an investigation into claims that two young children were sexually assaulted around noon yesterday at the Legoland theme park in Windsor. Two girls, aged six years old, were playing in the Castaway Camp which is located in the Pirate Shores area when a man in his late teens to early 20s is […]

10 years ago

When we came across 5-year-old Lucy of LucyLooksALittleLike, we can’t honestly say that we thought she looked all that much like US presidential hopeful Donald Trump or Bowie, though her mum, Kris Parrish reckons she’s a born chameleon. The Georgia 5-year-old looks like dozens of celebs according to 35-year-old Kris. “Friends and family would say […]

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Earlier the week, Tennessee mum, Wittney Hope brought her young baby shopping at her local shopping centre. At some point Hope’s baby daughter needed feeding as is generally the way with us humans. The young mum found an out-of-the-way spot and after asking a shop assistant for permission, she settled in to breastfeed her baby. […]

10 years ago

I was pregnant with my son when I first came across the baby shower concept, and I was suitably thrilled – a party for meeeeeee, what’s not to love. I enjoy any and every excuse for triangle sandwiches and cupcakes, though I noticed some of my (less cupcake-loving) friends were a bit down on the […]

10 years ago

PR guru and mum-of-one, Jul Prudko, from Moscow, Russia, has gained huge attention for posting a snap of her breastfeeding her son, Fedor to her Instagram account. The stylish mama has just over 24k followers and has spoken of how she wanted to use her platform to normalise breastfeeding in public. She shared the striking […]

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15-month-old twin girls, Ariel and Alaynah died tragically earlier this month after they were left in a hot car in Georgia. The girls who, according to their mother were just beginning to thrive after having been born prematurely, were in the car of their father who is now facing criminal charges. Police do not believe […]

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This rare footage of a baby born inside its amniotic sack (also known as birth en caul) is an stunning insight into our babies lives before their birth. The footage has been viewed nearly 12 million times since it was uploaded to Facebook earlier this week. As rare as this birth is, there was […]

10 years ago

Anna Strode, of Bubs2Bikinis, is a personal trainer, social media fitness star and mum to twins and she wants to remind mums everywhere that they are beautiful. The fit mama’s posts and workout routines have been shared and viewed tens of thousands of times. This bath time routine has garnered nearly 80,000 views. A little […]

10 years ago

Having kids can be something of an inconvenience when it comes to being spontaneous or trying to do, well, virtually anything. However, they actually come in super handy for getting out of stuff you don’t want to do – like, well virtually anything. Hen Dos of peripheral acquaintances (or let’s be honest close friends), visiting […]

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Parenting books, I find, rarely offer then kind of insights that we parents, hunkered down in the trenches on the front lines of raising our spawn, actually need.  For example, they never mention what I’ve come to call the THREE Ws of Parenthood: wet wipes, wine and wipe clean garments. The Toddler Phase Survival Kit: 10 Essentials NO […]

10 years ago

Pregnant? Noticing that other people SUCK? Yeah, I feel you. Well, no, I’m not going to feel you – if you’re pregnant, you’re probably sick of people feeling you. Full disclosure: This article is brought to you via the aggressive hormone-haze of a seven-month pregnant woman and is likely a bit of an overreaction. That […]

10 years ago

I’m fond of the odd mantra now and again. I find a little comfort in the mini pep-talk that a mantra can provide on those days when it feels like we can’t do anything right and we’re completely exhausted and then the toddler does a poo in the bath. Okay that’s quite a specific day, […]

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According to the Mirror, convicted child killer, Ian Huntley would like to apologise to the parents of his victims. Huntley is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire in 2003. The newspaper reported that Huntley, a former school caretaker told another prisoner: “I lost control […]

10 years ago

In this country, as we all know the weather is a completely unreliable indicator of the seasons, so we basically have to create our own summer. And what says ‘Summer!’ better than boozy ice pops? These white wine and melon booze pops have it all: wine, fruit, wine and fruit on a stick – they’re […]

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Jamie Dornan is not exactly known as a family man – his two most famous roles to date that of Christian Grey in raunch-rom 50 Shades of Grey and as a psychopathic killer in The Fall don’t exactly scream sensitive type. However, in a recent interview, he was surprisingly open and sweet on the topic […]

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I kind of hate the phrase ‘extended breastfeeding’, it makes it sound a bit like an unnecessary  indulgence.  Though, of course, there are worse things that nursing a child into toddlerhood have been called. Susie O’Brien of Australia’s Daily Telegraph once weighed in on the extended breastfeeding debate with an opinion piece titled: “Who does extreme […]

10 years ago

A paradise holiday on the island of Ibiza nearly became a horrific tragedy for one Irish family this week after their son was pulled from the hotel pool by a quick acting lifeguard, having come close to drowning. In an incident said to have taken place around midday on Friday the 6th of August, an […]

10 years ago

A video of a baby being turned by External Cephalic Version has been doing the rounds of the Internet of late and has racked up an incredible 2 million views. The footage shows a doctor at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton turning a baby by manipulating the mother’s stomach externally and successfully flipping that […]

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We know breast milk is the optimum nutrition for a newborn baby, the nutrients are tailored exactly to our children’s needs and it also provides them with invaluable immunity. Now World Breastfeeding Week 2016 is showing the far-reaching impact increasing breastfeeding rates worldwide can have on reducing poverty, protecting the planet and even eradicating gender […]

10 years ago

Despite our best efforts to pretend to be capable high functioning members of society, there are always a few telltale signs that let others know that we are currently in possession of a toddler and, therefore, should probably not be trusted to operate heavy machinery or make important, high-stake decisions. 10 Things That SCREAM “I […]

10 years ago

Popular mum blogger, Modern Mumma, Mel Watts has released an emotional video describing a vicious backlash she received after writing a funny post about her sex life. The original post was a fairly innocuous, intended-to-be-amusing story of a daytime quickie she had with her husband, a rare event that surely most parents can relate to. […]

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We’ve hit peak avocado. It used to know its place. It was a tasty topping, an upmarket addition to a salad but now the the clean eaters favourite has lost the run of itself entirely. It’s become practically a fetish for Instagram-snappers and the pathological clean eaters. The avocado is like that friend who’s recently taken […]

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