Huggies has recently re-launched its Natural Fit nappy range. Why should you care? Well, dear mum, I have two very good reasons to help convince you.

The first is: FREEBIES – every mum loves a free giveaway! This free baby product offer will give you a £5 saving on one bag of nappies.

This means an extra coffee (and also a slice of cake if you’re in need of a little ‘pick me up’ treat) at Starbucks – yayness!

Huggies has launched a dedicated website to promote the launch, which is where you can sign up to receive your free sample pack of Huggies’ new and improved Natural Fit nappy.

And there are also some easy-to-enter competitions, with awesome prizes up for grabs, available on the site.

The second reason to get excited about the new nappy is that the whole ‘go-organic’ trend seems to have rubbed off on Huggies, which has improved its nappy with organic cotton and vitamin E.

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Pregalates.  Sounds kind of lame, right? All I can say is don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

Flabby belly boobs and bottom are a pregnant woman’s worst pregnancy body image fear.  Keep fit during pregnancy with pilates, it can help – and that is exciting news.

Pilates expert Tasha Lawton has recently launched a DVD that explains a unique range of safe pregnancy exercises. Tasha was pregnant herself throughout filming of her Pregalates series, and so she naturally demonstrates which Pilates exercises apply at each stage of pregnancy.

This means the tempo of every 45 minute workout is ideally paced.

It comes as a nice change to have an actually-pregnant woman doing the instructing, as opposed to some Jordanesque hot blonde who we know is going for a visit to the Doctor of Botox-cum-Tummy-Tuck after she has popped her baby out.

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Patience: a concept that flitters through my brain every minute of every day with the best of intentions – intentions that are not always put into practice.

But I am learning. Helena Bonham Carter is also learning.

The celebrity mum recently made headlines when she told Jay Leno how she used “Calmer, Easier, Happier” parenting skills on her children. This advice on calmer parenting skills has really helped Helena.

She also says that parenting is harder than acting – don’t we love an honest woman!

Ms BC hired parent coach guru Noël Janis-Norton, founder and director of The New Learning Centre in London and known for her unique “Calmer, Easier, Happier” parenting methods, to give her a crash course in mummy management.

Helena, mum of Billy Ray (7) and Nell (3), says;

It helped me tremendously with the kiddies, and I also found it invaluable in dealing with Tim.

Being able to effectively manage the exuberant eccentricities of Mr Tim Burton (never mind two children under the age of 10) is a great testimony to the powers of the “Calmer, Easier, Happier” parenting technique.

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There is something so beautifully magical about being a child; the ability to suspend imagination in the most extreme way possible without being brought down to earth by the inconvenience of ‘real life’ worries – those were the days.

But those days are not completely gone; they hide in the memory waiting for a spark to bring them back to consciousness.

As the mum of a gregarious toddler, I feel like I get to re-live the innocence and mystery of childhood vicariously through my daughter’s imaginative fascination with her surrounding world. What a privilege!

Victoria Dixon is a lovely lady who understands the fleeting wonder of being a child.

Enhance-me.com is a service, founded by Victoria, that renders the magic and imagination of childhood into tangible being through the stunning creation of custom, enchanting best kids photo portraits.

Enhance-me uses photo manipulation to create magical photo invitations, fairy photo enhancements, personalised thank yous, holiday and Christmas photo cards, and much more, to the backdrop of fantastical themes featuring your child as the protagonist.

Imagine your child as a space traveller, a fairy princess, a courageous adventurer or explorer – whatever your heart desires – and with the help of Enhance-me, those fantasies can be transferred to photo format.

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Our post of the week was written by Donna from the Mummy Central blog, an excellent resource for Mum’s on all things baby including breastfeeding help.

This blog post was originally written by Donna as part of a collection of ‘stories about breastfeeding’ compiled by Sonia at Mummy Loves. Read about Donna’s personal experience with breastfeeding; how she tried her best but failed, and had to come to terms with the let-down. It’s an inspiring read.

When Elizabeth and I have our meetings about Mummy Central, and what pearls of wisdom we’re going to write next, her adorable BBZ is normally with us. He’s an incredibly calm six-month-old, happy to watch the world go by, kicking his legs and smiling. We only ever hear a cry of protest when he reminds Elizabeth it’s time for a feed. She pops him under her jumper and…… that’s just about it.

If only breastfeeding had been so easy for me. I would have loved that connection with my baby, that ease to get on with chats over coffee as my child happily got nourishment from my body. And it seems that simple for a lot of women. I’ve even had one friend carry her baby around in a papoose – no hands – with her breast out as he happily suckles away. She’s not flashing, he’s hidden from the world beneath a shawl, while she walks around the shops (now that’s multi-tasking!). I wouldn’t have insisted on that level of mobility. If only my children had latched on and taken my milk, I’d have sat perfectly still for as long as they demanded.

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