By Jo Burgess Before you Marie Kondo the shizz out of your home, here’s how to tidy your mama mind in 5 simple steps and leave overwhelm behind #destress #innerpeace #tiredmama You’ve probably seen the evidence all over social media. Photos of mountains of clothes sprawled across beds. Belongings bulging out of garbage …
The Game Changing Device Helping Mums Sleep More Soundly
By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor Every night, I put my baby girl down to sleep and I swear I check on her half a dozen times to make sure she’s still alive! Yes, the fear is real, and this mama seriously needs to get some sleep and chill out. …
How to Overcome New Mama Overwhelm in 2020
Becoming a mum is a huge transition, even when the world is normal. So going through that rollercoaster journey under the cray conditions caused by coronavirus makes it even harder – especially if you are trying to work from home at the same time! The challenge of trying to work …
5 ways to beat the baby blues in iso
By Anna Fasolo Having a baby is a beautiful experience, but it can also be scary, stressful, exhausting and isolating. Plus, if you’ve become a new mama during this cray coronavirus pandemic, some of these feelings are no doubt compounded. But it is important to know that you are not alone …
The 7 essentials you need when you have a newborn
By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor My bebe girl HATED being swaddled. No matter how well my baby-daddy and I wrapped her, she would always ninja her way out of it and startle-reflex herself awake. Ah the joys of those first newborn days and the sleepless nights that come with …
Our Mother’s Day must-haves to charge your soul
By Jessica Jane Sammut, MD® Editor-in-Chief Wow, anyone else feeling like they need a HUGE lie down … like for the next six months? Is it just me, or have the last few weeks (I know it feels like a year) been a little like living in the new series …
Who Runs the World? Damn Right, Beyoncé Does
When Beyoncé talks, people listen. When she Instagrams, the whole damn internet loses its mind. Case in point: her announcement in February 2017 of her twin pregnancy amassed a whopping 11 million ‘likes’ in a number of hours. The image of the Lemonade singer seated in a bed of flowers in …
6 of our fav Insta mums you need to follow
By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor Scrolling the ‘gram is srsly one of the ways I used to keep myself awake in those early newborn days… you know, when it’s 2am and you feel like you’re the only person in the whole world awake, yet you jump on socials and …
How to make your kids feel safe when they’re scared
By Natalie Bascur As a parent, you can feel helpless when your children tell you they are scared, especially when you can’t entirely reassure them that their fears are unwarranted. For many mamas and papas, these catastrophic Aussie bushfires have been the first time we’ve actually experiencing a disaster – …
How to explain the bushfire crisis to your kids
By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor My one-year-old daughter is obvs too young to understand or even know that Australia is fighting catastrophic f*cking bushfires, so when my three-year-old nephew asked me about it – I was caught off guard and wasn’t entirely sure what to say. Later that day, …