Parenting and family news, picked by parents

Win two book sets for littlies and discover a great website for cheap books for all children

I have been telling anyone who would listen to avoid baby products with SLS in – because SLS was created as an engine cleaner in the early 1900’s and now we bath even our newborns in it. There’s no PROOF that it’s carcinogenic, but perhaps that’s because we haven’t tested it yet. Thanks for sharing this info! (oh, SLS = Sodium Laureth/Lauryl Sulphate. It’s in most of the baby stuff you buy commercially.

Has this gone too far?

The coalition’s poverty adviser, Frank Field, will call for all children to be given parenting classes while Detroit authorities consider prison for parents who don’t attend parent teacher conferences.

Find out more about the Doidy Cup and stand a chance of winning one!

The cost and effort of breastfeeding vs bottlefeeding

An exploration in to whether there is truth in the old saying, or whether words do in fact have an impact.

Photoshoot and caledar in aid of breastfeeding awareness and raising funds for lactation consultants and breastfeeding support.

Sometime ceasarean sections are necessary and life saving. And sometimes they are simply ludicrous. It is difficult to know when they are really needed when there is so much money to be made from them