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HOW TO SURVIVE ‘TWO UNDER TWO’ WHEN YOU ARE A PRINCESS  

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princessIT was finally revealed this week that Kate Middleton is pregnant with her second child…and she is being sick a lot.

This is great news for the media (the pregnancy not the sickness), because there are only so many times they can put ‘stories’ such as ‘IS THE Princess with child or just wearing a slightly big coat?’ on the front page.

And of course great news for Kate, who will have a lovely newborn baby to look after.

As well as a young toddler.

I wonder whether she has thought this through. Continue reading →

How NOT To Get Your Baby To Go To Sleep

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not to sleepMy first baby did not like to sleep.

My second baby does not like to sleep.

The first time around we tried everything.

The second time around we tried everything else.

Turns out everything and everything else do not work on my babies…

However, after spending the past three years trying to get babies to go to sleep and stay asleep when they do not want to be asleep, I have a pretty good idea of how not to do it. Continue reading →