Keep Cool & Don’t Lose Your S**t!
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Hot Tips to Beat the Heatwave with Kids…
1. Binks binks binks – that’s ‘baths in sinks’… For the baby, obviously. After breakfast, after lunch, after dinner. All day long.
2. Frozen frubes – homemade fro yo on the quick and easy.
3. Fan – went and bought one (John Lewis’ click and collect service = AMAZING, just FYI. The kind of efficiency us Mamas need and value in our lives). Dreamt of stylish silent Dyson – reality is a noisy white plastic monstrosity but, you know, it works… and it was like 30 quid, not 300.
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Water melons – kids love them, adults love them, they’re healthy AND hydrating – everyone’s a winner!
5.On the topic of melons; Boobies! Having been neglected since I started weaning the bubba a few weeks ago, they’re suddenly back in demand. Feed on little one!
6. Water guns – they’ve been given the green light. Cue lots of noisy, naked children having a whale of a time.
7. Baby in a Bin (a new entry this year) – yep, filled a bin with cool water and squished one hot sweaty baby in. He loved it. Also, another bonus was that he
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couldn’t drown.. because he couldn’t move.***
8. Finally, unexpected entry: Bikinis! That’s right Mamas! Strip off and EMBRACE your hot, amazing, postpartum bod! Any residual Mum chubb is going to look a million times better tanned, guaranteed. You know it’s true. So go get #MUMBATHING
*** HE WAS NOT LEFT ALONE. NEVER LEAVE A BABY UNATTENDED IN/NEAR/ON WATER. THEY COULD FIND A WAY TO DROWN EVEN IF YOU THINK IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!!
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Siobhan Miller - 6 Jul 15
Hot Tips to Beat the Heatwave with Kids…
1. Binks binks binks – that’s ‘baths in sinks’… For the baby, obviously. After breakfast, after lunch, after dinner. All day long.
2. Frozen frubes – homemade fro yo on the quick and easy.
3. Fan – went and bought one (John Lewis’ click and collect service = AMAZING, just FYI. The kind of efficiency us Mamas need and value in our lives). Dreamt of stylish silent Dyson – reality is a noisy white plastic monstrosity but, you know, it works… and it was like 30 quid, not 300.
4. Water melons – kids love them, adults love them, they’re healthy AND hydrating – everyone’s a winner!
5.On the topic of melons; Boobies! Having been neglected since I started weaning the bubba a few weeks ago, they’re suddenly back in demand. Feed on little one!
6. Water guns – they’ve been given the green light. Cue lots of noisy, naked children having a whale of a time.
7. Baby in a Bin (a new entry this year) – yep, filled a bin with cool water and squished one hot sweaty baby in. He loved it. Also, another bonus was that he couldn’t drown.. because he couldn’t move.***
8. Finally, unexpected entry: Bikinis! That’s right Mamas! Strip off and EMBRACE your hot, amazing, postpartum bod! Any residual Mum chubb is going to look a million times better tanned, guaranteed. You know it’s true. So go get #MUMBATHING
*** HE WAS NOT LEFT ALONE. NEVER LEAVE A BABY UNATTENDED IN/NEAR/ON WATER. THEY COULD FIND A WAY TO DROWN EVEN IF YOU THINK IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!!
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I'm a mama to two boys with a third on the way (HELP!).
Aside from keeping them all alive, I write a blog, am a Hypnobirthing teacher and founder of The Positive Birth Company.
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