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, …
To the mamas whose partners are fighting the fires – we see you, we salute you
By Amy Molloy, MD® Deputy Editor As my husband packed his overnight bag, I wondered what I’d tell our toddler about where he was going and how long he’d be away, especially as we don’t know the answer ourselves. We are one of the lucky families (so far!). Our home on …
The must-have item for grandparents #gamechanger
By Kerrie Simon-Lawrence, MD® Editor It’s Grandparent’s Day coming up on 27 October. How amazing are our mums and dads? Personally, I couldn’t do life (or motherhood) without mine. My own mum especially has been such a rock helping me navigate my way through the tantrums and the tears of …
The mama juggle with Rebecca Burrow
By Nicole Fuge Sporting the most adorbs bebe bump, Rebecca Burrow broke the news last week on her Insta account, that she’s expecting a sibling for her mini-me daughter Arabella. Fresh from a vacay with the fam in Bali, we chatted with Bec about her gorge brand–Mini Marley, how she …
The insider secret that makes feeding your bebe easy
By Kerrie Simon-Lawrence Ask any breastfeeding mama and she will tell you that feeding in public can be uncomfortable, awkward and downright difficult. And that was exactly how Feeding Friend’s Amanda Rowe felt too, when she was trying to feed her second-born bebe Kayla, a few years ago. “I struggled …
[GUEST EDITOR] KHARA WILLIAMS: How I’m Raising Boys Of Tomorrow
By Khara Williams In the past few years, confronting, challenging and beautiful things have happened in our gender culture across the world, and these happen to be the years in which I’ve been privileged to become Mum to two gorgeous boys. Boys who, the recent viral Gillette ad says, “will …
The One Cream Your Bebe Needs… #sensitiveskin
Before you totally give up on natural remedies for your little one’s skin, give Childs Farm a go… By Jessica Jane Sammut, Editor-in-Chief If there’s anything us mamas live for, it’s a recommendation, right? When my second-born three-year-old was a teeny bebe, he was one of those allergic kids. You …