It’s All About Mee – Local Mum Wows Talent Judges
Local singer, songwriter Mee has made it through to the regional final of MTV’s Live and Unsigned. Local mum of three, 36 year old Alexandra Sawyer, known as Mee on stage, impressed judges and beat out...
View ArticleGuest Blog: StrideFit’s fortnightly fitness blast
Welcome to the first fitness blast written especially for Brighton Mums (and Dads too, don’t think you can get out of it that easily!). In this regularly series of articles I’ll be sharing with you...
View ArticleGuest Post: StrideFit’s Simple 7 day walk programme
This straightforward seven day walking programme is for those who aren’t used to a great deal of walking at a good pace. The aim of this is to gradually introduce you to a brisk walking pace –...
View ArticleGuest Post: Walking post bump?
Welcome to the fitness blast written especially for Brighton Mums (and Dads too, don’t think you can get out of it that easily!). Rob from StrideFit will be joining us on a regular basis to put us...
View ArticleThe dangers of not dealing with postnatal depression
In today’s guest post, Stacey from The Therapy Lounge discusses Postnatal Depression and alternative methods of treatment. The experience of postnatal depression is a lonely and dispiriting condition...
View ArticleActive Travel Week on BrightonMums.com
All next week on BrightonMums.com it’s Active Travel Week. We’ve team up with Brighton & Hove Council’s travel planning team to bring you daily features on ways to get fit, get around and get...
View ArticleMothers Discovered at Big Sunday
Big Sunday: An Event Designed By Mothers, For Mothers Mums spend a great deal of time occupied with the welfare of others. But when do they get to relax and spend some proper quality time doing things...
View ArticleChristmas Shopping: Gifts for girls
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View ArticleMy Christmas Gifts: 5 Gifts For A Tech Savvy Mum
This year I have totally turned into a tech geek. From my love of the MacBook Pro and iPad 2 I reccieved in 2011 I have turned into a bit of an accessory geek this year. Anything from sparkling up my...
View ArticleBrighton Half Marathon in the Bag!
A huge congratulations from everyone at BrightonMums.com to Heidi for completing the half marathon, against the odds after a recent injury! We’re so proud and here is her story…. Training for my half...
View ArticleBreastfeeding In Brighton
I never thought I would breastfeed. In fact, I never thought I would have children at all. After a chaotic and ‘adventurous’ early adulthood, I felt that having children looked too much like hard...
View ArticleMother’s Day Gifts for Brighton Mums!
Mother’s Day is this Sunday! Yes, you read that correctly fellow parents - this Sunday! I had a very panicked man approached me in Waitrose last Friday, red faced and sweating: “Excuse me,” he said...
View ArticleMother’s Day Gifts Which Cost Nothing
We all think our mums are the greatest and they deserve the best right? But did you ever think that rather than chocolates, flowers, trinkets, spa vouchers, what mum really wants may not cost any money...
View ArticleAdditional Paternity Leave: Giving Dad a Chance
Around the time I found out I was pregnant in 2011, the law on Paternity Leave changed. Fathers would be able to take additional leave to look after their new baby provided their partner had returned...
View ArticleMum knows best (but is that you, your mum, your friend’s mum, or the woman...
When I was blogging a few weeks ago, I started thinking about parenting tips I’d been given and wanted to pass on, plus those that I’d rather forget! This all began with a pair of wellies (which spell...
View ArticleCould Baby-led Weaning Be The Way Forward?
Baby-led weaning was a term that I’d vaguely heard of around the time my daughter was born. I didn’t really know what it was but had this vague idea that it was alternative and not for me. Someone...
View ArticleHow to stay sane (and happy) and have a happy half-term.
I originally wrote this holiday tool-box for my own blog - mumming at mumra when we were preparing for the summer holidays last year. I’ve re-jigged it a bit, but the ideas are the same and designed...
View ArticlePre and post baby parenting style
When I got pregnant someone gave us the ‘what to expect when you’re expecting book’. I diligently read each chapter at the start of each new month to find out what was happening with the mini-me I was...
View ArticleMy life as a stay at home Mum
I haven’t always been a stay at home Mum. After my son was born in 2009 I returned to work part-time after my maternity leave. When my daughter was born in 2011 I did the same, working three days a...
View Article5 Funny Things My Baby Did
There are many little things that I have come across as a mum that make me giggle when I remember. Parenting is fun but often we get too caught up in serious thinking. Thinking too much is probably the...
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