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How to Tell if You are Ready for Another Child?

Are you thinking of having another child? Does that thought often cross your mind? Does it confuse just as much? Many mums are worried about the right time to have another baby. As having another baby, whether second or third, needs both you and your spouse to be ready. Here, you will learn all the ...

Nursery or Nanny: What Should a Working Mum Choose?

Working mums always worry about where to leave their newborn baby after their maternity leave. Should they enroll their babies in nurseries? Or hire a stay-at-home nanny? It can be very confusing for new mums to choose between nursery or nanny. Therefore, you will find all the information you need here. Learn all about the ...

Burnout at work, is it a real thing?

Weekend blues, we all get them right? Feeling like the weekend went by way too fast, and you’re not quite ready for another week at the office. But feeling an overwhelming wave of anxiety at the prospect of going back to work is another thing entirely. So what is Burnout exactly? Burnout is a prolonged ...

Mum crush of the week! Pink

Pink (or Alecia Beth Moore), being an outspoken UNICEF ambassador, has her 5-year-old daughter aware from a very young age of what it means to give back to others. Pink revealed that, in addition to knowing and caring about the incredibly sad fact that not every child has a warm and cosy bed to sleep ...

Mum crush of the week! Kate Hudson

Celebrity mums do not really get much cooler than Kate Hudson and here is why: The 38-year-old natural stunner actress has two sons, Ryder, 11, and Bingham, 4. The boys are really lucky because their mum seems to make fun as her top parenting priority. In a recent interview, when asked what makes her the ...

Mum crush of the week! Michelle Obama

We will always consider Michelle Obama our forever-mum-in-chief. She has for a long time been a source of inspiration, encouragement and a little bit of tough love. She has been teaching her two daughters – Malia and Natasha to be determined, focused and empowered – very much like the woman she herself has become to ...

Mum crush of the week! Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith may have played a mom-shamer in a movie (suitably) called Bad Moms, but that is a far cry from who she is in real life. When it comes to parenting, the renowned actress—who has two children, Jaden and Willow, with husband Will Smith, plus a stepson from Will's previous marriage—thinks that we ...

Mum crush of the week! Chrissy Teigen

In between authoring best-selling cookbooks, modelling, juggling two kids and a celebrity husband (John Legend), the incredibly relatable celebrity mom Chrissy Teigen still manages to make us laugh on social media. What's not to love about her? We have officially renamed her 'The Clapback Queen' because she keeps us entertained with her wit and sarcasm. ...

Mum Crush of the week! Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon, one of the top Hollywood stars, seems to have found the perfect balance between motherhood with a little tough love and persevering encouragement, that makes her admirable as a mum. Being the mum of three, daughter Ava (19) and sons Deacon(15) and Tennessee(6), the producer, actress and entrepreneur has been recognized for her ...

You are not alone! Thoughts Mums have when returning from maternity leave

Those weeks following your maternity leave often pass in what feels like a blur. You're tired, you're stressed, you're missing your baby, or even worse, you're feeling guilty for not missing your baby. The critical thing to remember here is that you are not alone! Here are a few common thoughts among women returning from ...