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Category: Caterpillar Corner

A More Positive Mum with Miggins & B: Reward Chart Review

The first half of Caterpillar’s second year was pretty great – he was changing loads and his speech started to develop very quickly and tantrum wise, he wasn’t too bad at all. Then he hit two and…

Posted in Caterpillar Corner, Reviews 38 Comments March 9, 2016 by

Baby-led Weaning: First Foods & Favourites

Following my last Caterpillar Corner post – Six Reasons To Love Baby-led Weaning – today I wanted to share some of our favourite recipe ideas and on-the-go snacks, and review Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett’s…

Posted in Butterfly Book Club, Caterpillar Corner, Reviews 37 Comments February 17, 2016 by

Six Reasons to Love Baby-led Weaning

Inspired by my best friend’s success with Baby-Led Weaning this is the method I chose when Caterpillar was six months old. Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett are the go-to experts on the technique and their books helped…

Posted in Caterpillar Corner, Reviews 50 Comments February 3, 2016 by

A Very Big Parenting Challenge – Guest Post by Single Mum Speaks

Thank you so much to Elizabeth for kicking off the My Mountain series last week, and thanks to all of you for reading and for your lovely, supportive comments.  This week we have Min from Single…

Posted in Caterpillar Corner, Motherhood, My Mountain - Our Parenting Challenges 39 Comments January 29, 2016 by

The Emotions of Motherhood

Forget night feeds, tantrums and potty training – my number one parenting struggle is trying to navigate the constantly conflicting emotions that any mum or dad faces every single day. This is the side of…

Posted in Caterpillar Corner, Motherhood 69 Comments January 27, 2016July 7, 2016 by Laura

Favourite Books for Toddlers

I’ve always been an enormous book lover and I’m ecstatic that my sweet boy seems to be following suit, so I thought for today’s Caterpillar Corner I would share some of his (and my!) firm…

Posted in Butterfly Book Club, Caterpillar Corner, Reviews 74 Comments January 13, 2016July 13, 2016 by Laura

Goodbye Dummy, Step Up Mummy

I never wanted to give my son a dummy and I certainly didn’t want to give him one at only five days old. It was a habit I was determined not to start. But, much…

Posted in Caterpillar Corner 67 Comments January 2, 2016 by

Introducing Caterpillar Corner

I began this blog to share my experiences of PND and my recovery journey, and to help others who may be suffering, and this will remain the key focus for my writing. However, I have…

Posted in Blogging, Caterpillar Corner, Motherhood 33 Comments December 16, 2015 by

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