In honour of the Vogue spread on the imminent royal tour of Canada, we decided to put together our own slightly more realistic, infinitely less rosy itinerary of the Princess Charlotte’s inaugural state visit to Canada. As Vogue states, thus far the princess has kept a low profile making only two previous public appearances, her […]

10 years ago

With the whole back-to-school palaver finally settling down (though the mid-term break is sure to screw with all our hard-won efforts on the routine front) it seems timely that a chart claiming to hold the answers to life’s biggest question – When the hell should our kids be going to bed? – has gone viral. […]

10 years ago

A toddler who went missing three days ago has thankfully been found alive. Incredibly the resourceful boy survived three days alone in the Siberian forest which is known to be populated by wolves and bears. The 3-year-old, Tserin Dopchut had just a few morsels of chocolate when he strayed from his great grandmother’s house, reports […]

10 years ago

Do you live in kitchen purgatory? Kitchen purgatory is that limbo land of perpetual ‘we’re getting the kitchen done’. Riiiiight. Just as soon as the car tax is paid, and the new uniforms are bought, the credit union comes to their senses and gives us a loan and we win the lottery. Some of the […]

10 years ago

A newborn baby girl has been found abandoned in a skip in Patong, a Thai holiday resort. Authorities are looking for the infant’s mother after a man, who had been searching for empty bottles in the garbage, discovered the baby wrapped in a white blanket amid the rubbish. The Telegraph reports that an emergency responder, […]

10 years ago

10 Common Enemies Of Parents That We All Know And Dread: 1. Lego There is no pain like the pain of stepping on Lego, sometimes in the aftermath of a lego-stepping incident, I actually find myself momentarily wondering if amputation would be preferable to the hell-pain of stepping on Lego. 2. Play dough Why must […]

10 years ago

Police were called by a concerned and enraged passer-by who spotted a distressed toddler locked into his mother’s car late at night. Passing strangers were alerted to the situation when they heard the child screaming inside the locked parked car in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. Police were initially unable to locate the child’s parents, […]

10 years ago

Step 1 Upon arrival…. Think: “Oh wow, so looks like I’ll be gestating and birthing this child in this chaotic mob-queue.” Step 2 Getting your bearings. Ask at least fourteen people if they are at the end of the queue. Step 3 Abandon all logic and reason here. Realise that there is no system. Step […]

10 years ago

So I say nine months, but let’s face it it basically feels like nine YEARS when you got a fully grown baby inside your body, and even just the simple everyday things become totally impossible. The more I think about it, the more amazing I find it that we haven’t come up with a better […]

10 years ago

A Go Fund Me page set up to help a grieving mother to get back on her feet has been attacked by online commenters. The young mother, Xanna Weavell was travelling with her partner, Alex and two-year-old daughter, Ruby when the car crashed and burst into flames claiming the lives of Xanna’s family. The family […]

10 years ago

“We’ll never force the boys to go to school or take an exam. We don’t believe in government interference in education.” The King family are taking a wildly different approach to educating their two little boys, Winston and Henry. Paul and Caroline King, who are rug importers, sold their home and took to the road […]

10 years ago

Having sex is a distant memory for me currently, at 35 weeks pregnant The Man is just openly laughing at my weird egg-on-legs style body at this point. Pregnant or not, couples who been together for a while invariably get a tad complacent in the romance department. Often, when we do actually find the will […]

10 years ago

A new study by the Department of Obstetrics in UCD in conjunction with the National Maternity Hospital has found that more than 40 women with the flu have been admitted to the hospital over a five-year period. According to the HSE, the flu can have serious ramifications for an expectant mother and their unborn child. […]

10 years ago

Irish baby names are some of the most unique and beautiful in the world.  As the child of a Francophile I always resented my boring easily spelled name and was delighted when in national school the teacher gave everyone (who didn’t already have one) their “Irish” name during Irish. Though I noticed that anyone with […]

10 years ago

I have to admit that Jools Oliver’s Instagram is giving me much piece of mind in these last few weeks of my second pregnancy. There’s just something so seemingly warm and fuzzy about the Oliver’s life, and sure maybe a lot of it is a bit fantasy and filters and so on, but still she’s […]

10 years ago

We’ve had ‘yogalates’ (a fusion of pilates and yoga) and ‘voga’ (a fusion of yoga and, well, posing – yes really it exists!) and now we’ve got ‘Yo-got-milk?’. Okay that is my lame attempt to make a portmanteau to describe breastfeeding while doing yoga, as practised by a 29-year-old mum-of-three in Texas. Sneak a peek […]

10 years ago

Attention peanut butter devotees, new information has come to light that may SHOCK you… apparently, we’ve been storing peanut butter wrong this whole time. *GASP* So according to the PB aficionados over at PureWow, jars of natural peanut butter were NEVER intended to be stored upright but in fact upside-down. Face. Palm. The ‘science’ behind […]

10 years ago

Heavily pregnant actress, Olivia Wilde took to twitter yesterday to vent about (as she put it) “able-bodied” fellow passengers not offering her a seat on the subway in New York. Her tweet threatened to basically have a bloody show AT the next person who didn’t get up and offer her a seat: “NBD, able-bodied [subway] […]

10 years ago

Toddler, Ben Needham from Sheffield disappeared in Greece on the 24th of July 1991 when he was just two years old. Ben’s heartbroken mother, Kerry, has never given up hope that her son was alive. However, now british investigators on the island of Kos where the boy disappeared from just outside his grandparent’s home, have […]

10 years ago

With Autumn weddings, cozy dinners with friends and even the office Christmas party looming on the social calendar every super pregnant mama needs some miracle-working dresses in her sartorial arsenal. It’s bad enough we have 24/7 heartburn, arms that more closely resemble legs and an ungodly amount of sweating, the last thing we need is […]

10 years ago

A few days ago Jools Oliver posted a pretty innocuous snap of some nice trousers to her Instagram feed and as is the way these days, managed to ‘body-shame’ some people. Her original post was one many of us mums could relate to – that feeling of normality slowly returning after the chaos of having […]

10 years ago

At last a study that makes us feel good about ourselves! Scientists have discovered that getting ‘contact drunk’ is a thing… which means that finally, we can officially blame our friends for our drunkenness. KNEW it! Have you ever experienced the feeling of feeling drunker depending on who you are on a night out with? […]

10 years ago

27-year-old dad blogger, Brad Kearns has written a beautiful Facebook post about the tattoo he got to honour his first child who was stillborn. “These tiny little hands that are positioned like an eternal cuddle. These are the hands of our first son. His name was Buddy.” The post has touched hundreds of people with […]

10 years ago

In the last twenty-four hours, Katy Perry has been multitasking like a boss. First she helped her sister to give birth, then she hit up the recording studio to work on some new material. Legend. Perry tweeted to her almost 100 million followers about the fairly varied day’s work in a cute post: “Helped deliver […]

10 years ago

Australian family, the Bonells never thought they’d have enough kids for three five-a-side football teams AND a sub on the bench, but that is exactly what’s happened. “That was never my secret fantasy!” mum-of-16, Jeni Bonell told KidSpot Australia. “God has a funny sense of humour. When I was a teenager, I was like, ‘No, […]

10 years ago

Whenever I read advice on relationships, I just find it all so draining. I’m supposed to be making time for my other half and making efforts to look nice and remembering to appreciate him. To me, these do NOT sound like realistic relationship goals. I am in a relationship that has (like so many marriages […]

10 years ago

Packing the hospital bag is one of those lovely pregnancy rites of passage like the first scan and preparing the baby’s room. Though unfortunately my first time round despite repeated warnings, I never managed to get mine organised and wound up arriving at the hospital with a Tesco bag of random stuff. It was a […]

10 years ago

So we love baby names, the more unusual, the better and we Irish are pretty lucky in that we have a wealth of gorgeous baby names that provide the dual purpose of honouring our heritage while baffling the world at large with their strings of consecutive consonants and random fadas. Disclaimer: Every time I write […]

10 years ago

A Facebook post detailing the kindness of this stranger on a plane is giving us maximum feels today. The author, Angela Byrd posted the snap of a kindly dad helping out his fellow passenger, a pregnant mum travelling with her young baby. Accompanying the pic she wrote: “On a flight back to Georgia, this man, […]

10 years ago

12-pound baby Lilah Grace Simmonds apparently gave her mum hardly any hassle in the delivery room when she made her entrance last Friday. Weighing in as much as the average 3-month-old, Lilah Grace appearance prompted the attending midwife to exclaim upon clapping eyes on the new baby: “look at those chubby cheeks”. Here’s Lilah Grace […]

10 years ago

I do acknowledge that a lot of the these Catch 22s focus on food and eating… I guess I’m obsessed. 10 Seriously GODDAMN Irritating Catch 22s of Pregnancy: 1. You can finally eat whatever you want, but you’re sick as a dog and never want to look at food again. 2. You’re a grown ass […]

10 years ago

In January 2016 the Guardian reported that at least 10,000 refugee and migrant children have gone missing since arriving in Europe. Many of these minors are feared to be the victims of child trafficking. Each day, more and more unaccompanied minors arrive at Europe’s shores, at risk of a similar fate. A small grassroots organisation in […]

10 years ago

Can we all agree from now on that where gifts are concerned, no stipulations are ever, EVER okay?  It just doesn’t go down well, does it? Unless you’re saying “no gifts, thanks” then keep it to yourself. A couple who stipulated handmade gifts for their daughter’s upcoming christening have been called “cheeky, ungrateful f*ckers” by […]

10 years ago

A US mum, Jessica Huchko who lost her unborn baby, has posted a heartbreaking account of her treatment at the hands of a shop called Babies ‘R’ Us in Waterbury, Connecticut. The mother who has three daughters, delivered her fourth child, a boy, at just 24 weeks. The baby did not survive. Something that we […]

10 years ago

Music-lovers need look no further for name inspiration for their budding bumps. We’ve rounded up 20 rock ‘n’ roll baby names for die-hard music fans and their bumps.  For the Girls: 1. Gloria (G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloria!) Van Morrison/ The Doors/ Patti Smith 2. Ruby (Tuesday) The Rolling Stones 3. (Sweet) Jane The Velvet Underground 4. Eleanor (Rigby) […]

10 years ago

It’s not always easy to tell if somebody is a new parent or if they have just been chased and attacked by a pack of wild dogs. Either way, it’s important to approach the individual with sensitivity and extreme caution. They may startle at sudden movements or loud noises this is because they are either […]

10 years ago

Babies on planes have been something of a hot topic this Summer. Last May, airline JetBlue ran a campaign for Mother’s Day offering free flights to passengers whose journey was disturbed by crying babies. Meanwhile, Malaysia Airlines opted for something of an extinction method and banned babies from certain classes altogether. Social media posts of […]

10 years ago

The midweek dinner struggle is a very real phenomenon. We frequently find ourselves standing, dead-eyed, in the supermarket aisle, all inspiration having left us before resorting to some fairly uninspiring omelette variation that ungrateful family members will then most likely have the audacity to complain about. Here are three super speedy midweek-friendly meals that are full of […]

10 years ago

“As easy as learning to ride a bike,” is something of a misnomer if you ask me. I remember learning to ride a bike as being a trying and mildly traumatic experience – though I blame my father for this. He took the stabilisers – a part of the bike that I had become deeply […]

10 years ago

The Eve Appeal, a gynaecological cancer charity, recently carried out a survey to raise awareness around gynaecological cancers. As a part of the study, women were shown a diagram and asked to identify different parts of the female reproductive system. The results were pretty surprising. Almost half the participants didn’t correctly locate the vagina despite […]

10 years ago

Tragic toddler, Leland Valdez died at just 3-years-old in 2011, two days after being rushed to hospital unconscious. The boy’s mother, Tabitha Van Holtz and her then boyfriend, Stevan Gallegos initially claimed that the child had fallen from a chair. However, a post-mortem examination showed that he had been severely beaten and suffered injuries all […]

10 years ago

Hey parents, in the market for something ELSE to feel guilty about? A new study from researchers at the University of Loughborough has found that today’s four-year-olds are less physically able for school than previous generations. “Our research shows that not only are children starting school less physically ready than ever before but that teachers […]

10 years ago

In a case that rocked the world, tragic JonBenet was found murdered in her family’s basement at just six years of age in 1996. The case has never been solved despite a staggering 140 people being extensively investigated by authorities. JonBenet’s brother who was just nine years old at the time of the murder has […]

10 years ago

The internet has been whipped into a frenzy in the last few hours by whisperings from Hollywood of a new Harry Potter film in the works. According to Distractify, there has been confirmation that Warner Brothers have been seeking the rights to create another film based on Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, the final […]

10 years ago

A 29-year-old dad has been arrested in Arapahoe county in Colorado after telling police that he attempted to kill his 2-year-old son, Isaiah. According to the disturbed dad he wanted to take his child’s life because he felt he wasn’t “man enough” to raise a child. According to court records, the father took his son […]

10 years ago

This pregnancy announcement has a double whammy of cray cray. Firstly, 25-year-old dad, Tim Brummel had a vasectomy last year and secondly he managed to confirm his wife’s surprise pregnancy before she did. What the…? Let’s break it down. Father-of-three Tim had his plumbing procedure last December. When he didn’t hear back from the clinic, […]

10 years ago

Mum, Anglea Formosa never thought the day when her daughters would start school would come. At 16 weeks the expectant mum was sent to King’s College Hospital where it was discovered that her babies were joined at the abdomen and appeared to share part of the intestine. “I was already worried that they were monoamniotic […]

10 years ago

The September issue of Paper magazine (the original Internet breakers!) is featuring a pregnancy shoot like none we’ve seen before with reality star Blac Chyna. Blac Chyna has just weeks to go till the arrival of her second child; her first child is three-year-old son, King Cairo with rap artist, Tyga – the new baby […]

10 years ago

“There was an old woman who lived in the woods, weile weile waile…” The children’s nursery rhyme made popular by Christy Moore and The Dubliners was a favourite of my childhood. The startlingly graphic lyrics somehow failed to land with us fourth classers as we’d sing with gusto about infanticide at the end of Ms. […]

10 years ago

By this stage in pregnancy, I am doing a total Blanche DuBois and relying on the kindness of strangers. Or if not quite strangers, then at least long-suffering friends. At this point, I have asked a selection of my nearest and dearest to do a host of odd things for me as my increasingly egg-on-legs […]

10 years ago