colicColic is normal - most babies suffer from it to a degree. The crying usually starts at two weeks, peaks at six weeks and is decreasing by 12 weeks.Most babies who exhibit colic, cry in the early evening between 5 and 9pm. Colic is defined as crying
pregnancy ailments as fascinating as you do. Say if you need help, but don't bore them with your leaky boob story every time they ask how you are.* Wait until your 12th week before telling your boss.* Choose an appropriate time to tell them - preferably when
and lives with us. We asked if he would like to come along to my second scan and we had decided to find out the sex of our baby. It was a boy and the sonographer said he wasn't being very shy!We had decided on the name Alfie Mykael at about 34 weeks (Alfie
on demand as it worked best for me.'Joanne Freeman, 37, has two children, George, 5, and Bella, 7 ‘A mother's intuition does tell you if something is wrong with your child. My son Ben had pneumonia at 2 weeks old and I didn't do anything because I thought
dreams?His normal' routine is brush teeth, milk and a story in bed any time between 7 and 8.30pm. Some nights he refuses point-blank to sleep and will sit at the top of the stairs, throwing things down to get our attention.We both work full time and get
that scheduling in a little me-time has become so appealing? Problem is, me-time isn't always feasible. It certainly isn't for Claire Pomfret, 29. A part-time administrator with 7-month-old twins Charlie and Ethan, she says, It's a real buzz phrase and I've read
. Accidents are likely, but avoid negative language if they do.The 7-day Parent Coach by Lorraine Thomas is out now (Vermillion, £10.99).The result: Karen tried Lorraine's advice for two weeksOne of the first things I did was get rid of the endless number
the breastbone. I then move down until I reach the top of the womb, called the fundus. Then I'll measure from the pubic bone to the fundus. The number of weeks pregnant you are should roughly correspond to the number of centimetres, so if you're 28 weeks
problem - she wakes frequently in the night and insists on climbing into bed with me. I'm longing to have a full night's sleep and to have my bed back to myself.Delaney normally falls asleep at 7.30pm, then she wakes three hours later and cries until I
as long as there were no complications and labour started within 10 days of my due date, a home birth was fine.I had my antenatal appointments at the clinic, part of my GP's practice, and scans at the hospital. At 28 weeks it was explained to me
