The Conscientious Mama

My mum taught me to sew, knit and crochet when I was quite young, something I will always be thankful for.  That knowledge and love of making things has bubbled under the surface for years, pushed aside for other things but when I was pregnant I decided I wanted to make something special for Baby [...]

I’ve spoken to a few mamas and soon-to-be mamas lately about modern cloth nappies and how overwhelming it seems to begin using them.  You almost need a special nappy dictionary when trying to figure out what the options are, how to wash them, etc.  I waited until Baby E was 3 months old and slowly [...]

When I first announced I was pregnant, one of my mummy friends advised me to spend just as much time researching how to deal with a baby as on the actual birth itself; after all, the labour and birth is only one day (or in my case, two days!) but having a baby lasts much [...]

While I love living in Amsterdam, and there are some great little shops here, one of the drawbacks is a lack of variety (compared to larger cities like London, Paris and my hometown Melbourne) and this is something a lot of expat mums complain about.   However, luckily we have the Internet and some great web [...]