Energy. It’s all around us. All consuming. Einstein was undoubtedly a genius creating an equation to define it. Shall I tell what Einstein definitely wasn’t? A parent of twins. I’d go so far in fact to state that I doubt Einstein would have been able to have created his infamous formula if he’d been kept up all night by a teething baby. Energy is all around but what it definitely isn’t is something I have much of lately. When I look back to PT (pre twins) I literally can’t be

Baby Haemangioma The NHS website explains: ‘About one in every ten babies has a haemangioma. They are more common in girls, in premature babies, low birth weight babies and multiple births, such as twins.’ Beatrice is a girl, tick. Beatrice was premature, tick. Beatrice had a slightly low birth weight, tick. AND, guess what, she is a twin…tick. Bingo. Full house. So, I guess it was no surprise that she started developing a haemangioma. When Beatrice was born all I can remembe

Why I parent more gently. Before we should start I should state that I don’t believe there is such a thing as a perfect parent, nor do I set out to preach my own parenting methods. This blog is designed to inspire and support parents, to share with you the knowledge and experience I have gained through personal research and parenting and to provide an insight into what happens behind my closed doors. After giving birth to my second baby I had the expectation that adjustments

About Mother Merch I became a mum in 2016. I have uploaded hundreds (and taken thousands) of pictures of my baby, I am a little bit obsessed with her. Since becoming a mother I have noticed many mothers (and fathers) uploading pictures of their babies/children/parent experiences accompanied by the #babyspam hashtag, or with a caption that goes something like "boring mum post, but...", and it got me thinking. We try for what seems like forever to have a baby, grow them for 9 m

Hey loves, I'm Stacey the 32 year old Mumma behind the Down At The River brand. I live just outside Cardiff, South Wales with my husband and two babes, Ryver and Forrest. Giving birth to my first born, Ryver (prononced river.....hence the brand name) two years ago, was where it all began. We'd just purchased our first home, I was on maternity leave and as my journey in to motherhood began, there I found myself. Sat in a new property (in need of shit loads of work ), love dru

Today, the notion of life limiting workplace gender disadvantage within the U.K work place, seems a little far fetched right? I'm afraid not. Unfortunately, (particularly after a stint of maternity leave. Two pretty much consecutive periods of maternity leave in my case). I've come to realise that workplace gender equality is much more of a problem than I'd first thought. In returning to work all too often it is assumed that you, the mother will either; Reduce your working h