After a very successful 12 months, special care baby charity Bliss has revised and updated it’s Going Home Pack for families of premature and sick babies and has secured funding to continue its distribution to neonatal units . Funded by Pampers, Abbott Ltd and Foresters Friendly Society, the new packs have been delivered to units around the UK.

Wow! What a week! I feel like I haven’t stopped. Sophia has definitely been working hard to keep me busy.

Boost Your Wash is the latest stain busting cleaner to hit supermarket shelves. It is anti-bacterial and claims to remove stubborn stains, eliminate odours and kill germs if used alongside your normal washing detergent.

Are our mathematical skills considered defunct when we become a parent? My son is a huge In The Night Garden fan although he thinks the pinky ponk is scary bless him so I have to avoid any episodes where the pinky ponk hits the trees and sends the Tombliboos sliding across the floor. Anyway the great news is that the night garden has come to London and they have ninky nonk shows and pinky ponk shows - what could be better? :) (there will be no guesses as to which show we opt for!)

Because babies are learning from the moment they are born, it’s important to ensure that play is both fun and educational. The DiscoverMe website (http://www.discovermetoys.co.uk/) stocks a vast range of top quality developmental and educational toys for pre-schoolers, most of which you can’t find on the high street. Through a wide network of the best pre-school toy manufacturers from around the world, DiscoverMe has brought together one of the finest selections of toys for 0-5 year olds available anywhere, and for some of the best prices possible.

When my beautiful daughter Sophia was born, I was surprised to see that she had a full head of hair. By the time she was a month old, her hair had grown so long that she constantly had hair in her eyes. I headed to my local shopping centre and bought her some small hair clips so I could clip her hair away from her eyes. However, I spent the next week clipping her hair back off her face as the clips would slide out due to her having such fine baby hair.

My biggest and only problem with this CD is the title. When I first saw it, I had visions of being transformed into a fabulously calm parent of “children” – aged about 6-8. I have changed the title in my own mind to “How to cope with those first few weeks of motherhood”. With this new
title, I can relax and enjoy the journey that Eleanor takes us on.

Most people purchase a playmat for their baby before any other toy, but many may not realize the important roles that these playmats play in their baby’s development. These humble objects have some vital benefits, including enhancing motor skills, developing head and neck control, providing a safe, soft and clean play area for your baby, developing intelligence and a sense of play and discovery. That’s why educational toys website DiscoverMe (http://www.discovermetoys.co.uk/) has a comprehensive range of playmats as part of its online collection.

Bras! Where do you start? Some women when they get pregnant ignore the changes in their breasts and just carry on as usual and then finally when it all gets too uncomfortable buy new bras. But at that stage they then realise that they could have been comfy all along!

Line Rothman is the founder of Glamourmom, the home of the revolutionary built-in bra tank top, a stylish all-in-one bra and feeding top for nursing Mums, which is also suitable to wear through pregnancy and offers amazing value.

Glamourmom was founded in 2000 in the US and has recently expanded into the UK, Family & Parenting caught up with Line as she was about to start a weekend of celebrations in the US!

Line had some amazing things to tell me about her company and her passion for her products is enormous, her motivation as a Mum was to develop a product that was stylish and offered the features that other nursing bras lacked. Following months of research and design, her result is the Glamourmom® built-in bra concept, now an award winning wardrobe staple for so many US Mums.

Her success has been founded by talking to other Mums, finding out their needs and wants for pregnancy and nursing products – a value that forms the basis of what Glamourmom is all about.

As Glamourmom® enters the UK market family & parenting magazine wanted to find out what is so special about their products and why UK Mums should be interested......

Launched this National Breastfeeding Awareness Week was an offer to support more women to breastfeed. The owners of Lifft™ Baby Slings and bras4mums, have both breastfed and set their businesses up to support other women to do the same.

Launching during National Breastfeeding Awareness Week, Lifft™ baby slings, the only sling believed to be scientifically proven to improve posture, and bras4mums, the maternity and nursing bra specialists, are offering £10 off when you buy a Lifft™ sling and any bra from the Royce range together.