Bebe Bag – hospital essentials

Packing my hospital bag first time round was like a magical, mystical birth preparation ritual. The bag itself, the precise contents, the order in which they were packed… Pretty sure I did it at around 30 weeks pregnant, and it required extensive research and numerous *special* shopping trips, with a fellow preggo, to ensure all […]

Babywheels – the Venicci 3-in-1 travel system

I have been asked to do a review of the Venicci baby-mobile. This was the “travel system” we chose to transport Bebe FF in his first months on the outside. When we were looking, as I mentioned, we found all the information out there to be a bit confusing and unnecessarily complex; the car seat […]

Backpacking aka travelling with bebe

This post is about travelling with a bébé. No matter how organised you are (or you think you are) when you travel with your miniyou, you will inevitably feel like a backpacker. If, like me, at 18 years old you specifically avoided doing the “backpacking thang” because you can’t pack for sh!t and you didn’t fancy hauling […]

Baby Stuff #3 – Bathing, Dressing and Playing

The last instalment – for now – on baby stuff. Baby bathing products. Yes, you need to bathe your baby. Eau de fromage can become quite pungent after a while. You have to be careful about the umbilical cord, but once that’s off, you are free to bath. When you look at your bath and then your […]

Baby Stuff #2 – Travel Systems

The big one often reserved to daddy is the pram, buggy or more accurately, the “travel system”. These are devices on wheels used to transport your precious bundle from A to B when it can’t be achieved using your arms. The hot wheels. Typically made up of a chassis, a bassinet / flat bed (babe lies […]

Baby Stuff #1

Babies are expensive. Everyone starts to tell you this about a minute after you announce your happy news. You nod politely but secretly imagine yourself laden with baby joys in one hand and a full purse in the other. After all, you are a master shopper. Bargains fall into your hands. Shopping is easy. When your bump […]

Bogeys

It’s official. I am obsessed with bogeys. They are everywhere. And they need to be removed. Not my bogeys, I hasten to add: baby bogeys. Bebe FF produces an insane number of big bogeys, that block his nose and he can’t breathe. Most troubling – he can’t pick them. They just sit there blocking his nasal […]